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Five working days for a house or a small building, and up to two weeks for anything with a structural drawing we have to price steel off.

We price material, labour and plant separately, so when something changes you can see exactly what moved.

Against work done rather than against dates. A deposit to mobilise, then payments at agreed stages such as foundation, each slab, roof, first fix and handover.

We invoice for the stage after it has been inspected, not before, and the final five per cent is held until the snag list is closed.

The quotation says which items are fixed and which are subject to the market, and cement and steel are always in the second list.

If a price moves we show you the supplier invoice. We do not add a percentage to a figure you cannot check.

The programme is written around the boat rather than around the week. Everything for a stage leaves the Hulhumale yard as one load, packed for a week at sea.

We add a week to the programme for every atoll job between May and November, because the sailings slip and pretending otherwise just moves the disappointment.

A site engineer and a foreman, both on the job from setting out to handover. You get the engineer's number at the start and they are the person who answers it.

The programme is printed and pinned in the site office, updated every Sunday, and you are welcome to read it whenever you are passing.