Project Records

Every project goes wrong somewhere. The method decides how far.

Images and numbers. Then the account.

MYX · 01 · SOUTH KENSINGTON

IFC
CLIENT
Finance
LOCATION
South Kensington
TYPE
Conversion · Studio to one-bedroom flat
VALUE
£120,000 ex VAT
LISTED BUILDING
Yes · Grade II
GATES CLOSED
13 / 13
VARIATIONS
4 raised · All approved in writing before works proceeded
PROGRAMME
H1 issued: 24 weeks · External delay: heritage department issued new layout requirements post-H1 · Programme extended 12 weeks on heritage determination · Revised baseline issued to client same day · Completed within revised programme.

Four months in, the heritage department issued new layout requirements: a twelve-week extension no one controlled.

The revised baseline and the variation document reached the client the same day the determination came through.

"The heritage team changed the layout four months in. I’d been through a renovation before where that kind of thing caused months of silence and then a surprise bill. I had a revised programme and a variation document the same day the determination came through. The delay wasn’t their fault. How they handled it was entirely their doing."
Paul · Finance · South Kensington

MYX · 02 · CHELSEA

IFC
CLIENT
Finance
LOCATION
Chelsea
TYPE
One-bedroom flat renovation
VALUE
~£120,000 ex VAT
GATES CLOSED
13 / 13
VARIATIONS
2 raised · Both approved in writing before works proceeded
PROGRAMME
H1 issued: 2 weeks · Discovery variation mid-project · Inadequate water pressure requiring pump installation · Solution and revised programme presented to client before works proceeded · Delivered within revised timeline: 4 weeks.

Mid-project the flat showed inadequate water pressure. It needed a pump, and no survey would have found it.

The fix and a revised timeline reached the client before any work proceeded. The job closed in four weeks against a two-week baseline.

"I pushed for two weeks. They found a water pressure problem mid-way that needed a pump, something nobody could have known was there. They came to me with a solution and a revised timeline before touching anything. It ran four weeks in the end. I’ve had contractors finish late and tell me at the end. This was the opposite."
James · Finance · Chelsea

MYX · 03 · CHELSEA

IFC
CLIENT
Energy
LOCATION
Chelsea
TYPE
One-bedroom flat renovation
VALUE
~£60,000 ex VAT
GATES CLOSED
13 / 13
VARIATIONS
3 raised · All approved in writing before works proceeded
PROGRAMME
H1 issued: 12 weeks · Two discovery items: concealed floor defect identified at H3 strip-out · third-party window installation delay · Programme resequenced on both discoveries · Client informed same week as each identification · Delivered within revised programme: 14 weeks.

Strip-out at H3 exposed a concealed floor defect, and a third-party window install slipped. One was hidden by the building, the other outside the contract.

A variation document reached the client within the same week of each. The project closed two weeks long, and both weeks were known before they happened.

"They found the floors were in a terrible state once they opened up, nothing the survey could have caught. Instead of fixing it and adding it to the bill at the end, I had a call and a variation document within the same week. The job ran two weeks longer than planned. I knew about both weeks before they happened."
Nick · Energy · Chelsea
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