All five phases
Every phase of your build, covered
The five checklists as one set: Choosing a Builder, Concept Design, Development Approval, Construction Certificate and the OC Inspection. More than one hundred checks with the why behind every one, for $79 instead of $145 bought separately.
Every build is the same five conversations, had in order. Who builds it and on what contract. What the concept must get right while it is still lines on paper. What the DA drawings must lock in. What the construction documents must specify. And what to measure at the final walkthrough before the last payment leaves your hands.
I am Shea Cullen, a registered architect on the Central Coast, and these five checklists are those conversations written down, the same ones I have with my own clients. Separately they are $29 each. As a set they are $79, because the person who works through all five is the person whose build I never get a distress call about.
Buy it at the start. The Choosing a Builder checklist earns its keep before you sign anything, and the other four are ready in your downloads as each phase of the project arrives.
What's inside
Phase 1 of 5 — before you sign
Choosing a Builder
31 checks · The complete checklist for choosing a builder and signing with confidence
Phase 2 of 5 — getting the bones right
Concept Design
15 checks · Get the bones of your home right before anyone draws a wall
Phase 3 of 5 — before the DA goes in
Development Approval
25 checks · Lock the right details into your DA before it goes in
Phase 4 of 5 — before construction is certified
Construction Certificate and CDC
41 checks · The technical checks before your documentation is certified
Phase 5 of 5 — practical completion
The OC Inspection
38 checks · Tolerances and defects at practical completion, measured the way inspectors measure
This is for you if
- You are at the very start of a build and want the whole journey mapped before the first decision
- You would rather pay once than come back four times as each phase arrives
- You are giving it to someone you care about who is about to build
Your investment
$79
Australian dollars, one time, instant download.
The full amount is credited toward a $220 Initial Consultation with the single use code in your delivery email, valid for 12 months.
If your download does not arrive or the set is not what this page describes, reply to your delivery email and I will make it right, refund included. Australian Consumer Law guarantees apply to every purchase. Terms of sale.
Questions people ask
What exactly do I get?
Five print ready PDF checklists, each the complete edition: Choosing a Builder, Concept Design, Development Approval, Construction Certificate and CDC, and the OC Inspection. More than one hundred checks all told, each with the why and the cost of skipping it, and the Construction Certificate document carries the Concept and DA checklists inside it so the complying development path has one document.
How does delivery work?
Instantly. Payment takes you to a download page with all five, and the same link is emailed to you. It works for 12 months, so each checklist is waiting when its phase arrives.
I already bought one checklist. Can I upgrade?
There is no automatic upgrade path yet. Reply to your delivery email and I will sort something fair out for you directly.
Is the $79 credited back?
Yes. Your delivery email includes a single use code that takes the full $79 off the $220 Initial Consultation, valid for 12 months. If we end up working together, the whole set has cost you nothing.
A build is five sets of decisions, made once, in order. Walk in prepared for all of them.