How to Chase Unpaid Fees and Suspend Work Properly
A staged escalation for architects 60+ days unpaid: reminder wording, formal notice…
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Price Your Feasibility Stage So It Isn't Free Work
How to scope, price and invoice a feasibility or pre-app stage as a paid standalone deliverable…
The Fee Proposal That Stops You Losing on Price
A page-by-page structure for an architect's fee proposal: staged fees, three service options, exclusions…
How to Bill a Design Change After Planning Submission
A client changes the design after you've submitted.
When a Sole Practitioner Can Actually Afford a First Hire
The full monthly cost of a first architectural employee beyond salary, the chargeable-hours sum that pays for it…
Why Your Architecture Practice Is Profitable and Still Broke
A practical guide to fixing cash flow in a small architecture practice: deposits, stage invoicing, 14-day terms…
The Building Regs Package for a Domestic Extension, Sheet by Sheet
What a Building Control package for a house extension actually contains: sheet list, scales, which details matter…
How to Carry Out a Measured Building Survey in One Visit
A practical on-site method for surveying an existing building: running dimensions off one zero…
What to Put in Your Schedule of Services and Terms of Engagement to Stop Scope Creep
Stage deliverables written as countable items, a revision cap, an exclusions list…
From Surveyor's DWG to Planning Set: Existing, Demolition and Proposed Drawings
A working production sequence for turning a measured survey into clean existing…