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Test - Choosing a contractor

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We strongly recommend you use a warranted builder or a specified building contract when carrying out works to your home. Full details on both these options can be found in the video below, and in the Applicant's Guide:

We have prepared a guide with detailed information on selecting a contractor, managing the project, and the payments process. It can be downloaded below.   

Download the Applicant's Guide (PDF 301kB)

For information to help you to choose a builder read NI Direct's 'Choosing a good builder' (keep link that is currently on the website)

Many builders and contractors either register with a warranted builders’ scheme or opt to use a specified building contract whilst carrying out works. These schemes may help protect you if there is a dispute. 

For example, should your builder or contractor go out of business or fail to complete the work, in such cases both options have a dispute resolution service.

The ‘approved cost’ of the work may be more than £10,000.

In this case you must choose from one of the options below:

Option 1: Appointment of a warranted builder with Insurance Backed Guarantee

Option 2: Appointment of a non-warranted builder but using a Specified Building Contract or equivalent approved contract

Further Information for Option 1 can be found:

The Federation of Master Builders (FMB)
T: 028 9446 0416
E: fmbni@fmb.org.uk

Further Information for Option 2 can be found:

The Royal Society of Ulster Architects

JCT Ltd - Building Contract for a Home Owner Occupier

 
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Freedom of Information Act 2000

The Housing Executive will publish a summary of responses following completion of the consultation process.

Your response, and all other responses to the consultation, may be disclosed on request. The Housing Executive can only refuse to disclose information in exceptional circumstances.

Before you submit your response, please read the paragraphs below on the confidentiality of consultations and they will give you guidance on the legal position about any information given by you in response to this consultation.

The Freedom of Information Act gives the public the public a right of access to any information held by a public authority, namely the Housing Executive in this case.

This right of access to information includes information provided in response to a consultation.

However, it does have the responsibility to decide whether any information provided by you in response to this consultation, including information about your identity should be made public or treated as confidential, although this will also be guided by Data Protection legislation.

The means that information provided by you in response to the consultation is unlikely to be treated as confidential, except in very particular circumstances.

The Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the Freedom of Information Act provides that:

  • The Housing Executive should only accept information from third parties in confidence if it is necessary to obtain that information in connection with the exercise of any of the Housing Executive’s functions and it would not otherwise be provided.
  • The Housing Executive should not agree to hold information received from third parties ‘in confidence’ which is not confidential in nature.
  • Acceptance by the Housing Executive of confidentiality provisions must be for good reasons, capable of being justified to the Information Commissioner.

For further information about confidentiality of responses please contact the:
Information Commissioner’s Office