Who is the manufacturer?
There is no legal definition of the manufacturer. In practice, it is that which works under the legal regime of the Contract of construction of a detached house . It is the only type of contract to being regulated, in fact by the law of 1990. Inter alia protections, it guarantees the delivery of the house at price and times agreed to you.
Certain manufacturers are house building entreprises; it is them which build your residence. Others call upon subcontractors who work under their responsibility.
To note: A manufacturer must obligatorily provide a guarantee of payment of subcontracting, delivered by a guarantor or a specialized insurer.
Other professionals can build your house. With an architect or a Master of , you negotiate the contract freely. This last is governed by the only Civil code. Contrary to the , the price is fixed freely; it is not overall, contractual and final. You do not profit from the guarantee of delivery at price and agreed times.
You can also choose to pass from the markets of work with several house building entreprises, under the same legal procedures (Civil code). In this case, it is you who supervise the working.
Caution! If the great majority of the manufacturers, architects and project managers are serious, it is not the case of pseudo professionals who build key houses in hands, except contract of construction and with a price announced at the beginning, which is prohibited. They are also freed from all the insurances. Some are not even covered of decennial responsibility. Lastly, they often propose houses at the abnormally low prices which are not in conformity with the standards. Be vigilant!
What makes the manufacturer?
He builds houses according to your wishes and of your budget. Its mission covers the whole of the project. You have opposite you a single interlocutor who designs the house with you (choice of architecture, the plans, the equipment and the services), ensures the follow-up of work and the work in accordance with the contract and in the intended deadlines by the aforementioned delivers to you.
The manufacturer can also carry out a whole series of steps on your behalf, like obtaining the permit building or the insurance damage-work. For the latter, it can make you profit from contract-grouped. Thus, this compulsory insurance will cost you less than if you subscribe it to in an individual capacity.
On the other hand, within the framework of a Contract of Construction of Detached house, the manufacturer cannot sell the ground directly to you. He can only help you in your search by providing you a list of pieces available to the sale. If you buy the house and the ground at the same time, it is about a sale contract in the future state of completion, and not of one .
How to choose the manufacturer?
A serious manufacturer carries on his activity for a certain time. He must be able to show you his references, in particular financial. On your request, it will be able for example to provide a certificate of its guarantor (it is the insurer which delivers the guarantee of delivery at price and times agreed to him). The manufacturer will also make you visit his achievements.
Certain professionals pushed their step front quality while engaging in Mark Detached house or by adhering to Maison association Quality. As many additional advantages, even if number of society which does not enter these structures are reliable, they too.
How to work with the manufacturer?
Start with good to inform you on all the aspects of your project. You will know your rights like your duties of purchaser-Master of the work. You will know what you will be able to buy and under which conditions. You will avoid thus many blockings and you will communicate more easily. On the other hand, if you exceed your role and that you position as architect or engineer, the good progress of the operations will suffer from it.
The Council: once the looped file, avoid amending the project constantly. Each change, after the signature of the contract, has a cost and complicates the working. The idea is of knowing what you want and of you to hold to with it.
How to choose the house?
Identify your needs well, to know with precision what you can do to build according to your budget. Be not obnubilated by the price: you on the quality ratio/prices base. Examine what constitutes this price, in terms of materials, equipment, services, services and guarantees. Lastly, compare to choose with full knowledge of the facts.
The Council: Pose the maximum of questions to dissipate possible doubts. Do not hesitate to make you explain several times what you do not understand.