Help on labour contractor

[catchmesachin]

Hi. Recently I have almost finalised a contractor who is ready to construct house for me on labour contract mode on a percentage basis. It’s for a G+2 house on a 30/40 land. Basically around 33 chadras of construction. The contractor since is a very very experienced one has agreed to look around the whole building in terms of structural to architecture to everything. I just need to procure materials whenever he asks and give it to him. He shall help me in procuring items at a lower rates since the contractor is known to me. So basically he wil help me in everything with monitoring the site everyday. He is charging me 5 lakhs as his fees. So I pay him 5 lakhs and he does everything. Only material procuring to be done by me. So basically 5 lakhs is for the contractor and I wil have to pay separately for the labour as well for a construction of 32 Chadras.

Is the rate fine??? Keeping in mind I don’t want to give to material contract but at the same time can’t be doing all the running around required in labour contract. Plz guide on the price. quoted.

[catchmesachin]

Plz note - I only have to pay weekly wages to the workers for the work carried out.

[ganeshncm]

5L for monitoring and procuring ? That seems somewhat high.

In civil construction, the materials needed are limited, Sand, source a big 32 Tonner and it lasts weeks, 100 bags of cement automatically get delivered by nearby cement store (margins not a whole lot there) and blocks or bricks (branded ones, there isn't much margins or price diff there). Once you negotiate, the price doesnt vary a lot if you finish things quickly.

In terms of monitoring, pillars, roof, footing , plinth, will all total upto 10 or 15 hours..

I could do procuring and monitoring without a so called "civil project manager". My Maestri did half the monitoring, and I did the procurement.. all happens on phone, and there isn't much issue

[RashmiL]

5 lakhs is clearly a rip off. Damn I would quit my job and do this monitoring and procuring if every house owner gives this amount. Jokes apart, my suggestion would be

1) Are you going to keep a security guy at your house construction. IF YES, then he can monitor the arrival of
Bricks and cement via security guy and do the counting. You just have to order bricks and cement via phone and later verify the brick count at site.
2) Steel is brought in bulk few times. So visit would be minimal. That should not be a issue.
3) Msand and jelly- clearly the toughest part. . . Even though you can order over phone, you still have to run to nearest weighment center to check tonnage and then make payment based on it. However after you complete foundation and plinth, you order sand and jelly in limited quantities like max 1 or 2 load per floor.

You will have to check yourself for Rest all things like Granite , plumbing items etc .

So 5 lakhs is extremely expensive for procuring and monitoring. I would not recommend it.

[Visualizer]

To avoid weighing better to buy mSand and Jelly on cubic feet basis as you just need a tape to measure LxBxH of dumper.

[ashokkumarhj]

If he is qualified engineer than it is okay, apart from purchasing material he will monitor whether Mason is doing correct and he will be responsible if there is labour issue.technically engineer can be never compared with mason