Contract planning in Merton Park
Documented building context
Merton’s February 2006 John Innes character assessment catalogues building details by address. Its appendix records tiled and timber details at 7 Sheridan Road, an oriel and brick detailing at number 3, and balconies, ornamental joinery and roof features at number 1. It also identifies moulded porch brickwork and leaded glazing at 52 Mostyn Road.
Existing-building records for the tender
Where the house has a projecting timber feature, locate the rooms it serves and the faces included in any joinery or glazing work. Ask whether the account concerns the visible window, its covering or the structure supporting it. Provide photographs showing the connection to the surrounding wall as well as the front.
For work to finials, bargeboards, chimneys or decorative tiles, request the scope and date for each item. Locate the corresponding roof slope and rooms on the current plan. Distinguish a restored visible detail from replacement of the principal covering, supports or junction with a later range.
Merton Park tender and contract decisions
A Merton Park contract should be based on the actual house and the building features identified in its local evidence. Show the original range, later extension and relevant roof or entrance details on the tender drawings. Ask the designer to confirm the materials and construction at the repair position rather than use a neighbourhood style label as a specification. Define investigation where the proposed intervention depends on concealed information.
Separate decorative finishes from structural and weatherproofing work in the priced schedule. State the accepted sample or detail, temporary protection and making-good limits. Tenderers need to know which assumptions remain unresolved and who provides the design response after opening-up. Retain the findings with the revised drawing and JCT instruction, allowing a valuation to follow the authorised change and its measured extent. A similar neighbouring property does not establish this house's condition or the contractor's entitlement.
The programme should identify access to rear and side work, occupied rooms and any service isolation affecting residents. Obtain separate access or management arrangements through the client's advisers. Schedule inspections before connections are concealed and record the relevant drawing revision. At completion, connect guarantees, tests and outstanding items to the component actually instructed. Avoid treating completion of a visible finish as confirmation that every concealed or excluded element has been addressed.
What should the Merton Park tender and completion file make clear?
Select the contract form after clarifying design responsibility and the work scope. Where a specialist designs a particular portion, make its interfaces and information release dates explicit in the tender. The conservation or character record does not itself approve the proposed work or define the parties' contractual roles.
Appointment
HCS cannot act as independent contract administrator where HCS is the contractor.
Local Sources Checked
- Merton: John Innes (Merton Park) Character Assessment, February 2006 — PDF page 52 / printed page 51, Appendix 4 – Details, entries for 7, 3 and 1 Sheridan Road and 52 Mostyn Road. Cover states ©02/2006; appendix begins on PDF page 51.
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Provider
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