This tip looks at how to document and specify warranties to avoid confusion, frustration, and construction underperformance.
If you are happy with a standard product warranty, you don’t need to mention it, but if you want to, this does no harm.
A Specification Preliminaries warranty clause should say that all products are to have warranties, and they are to be provided to the owner in the owner’s name, the warranty period commencing at Practical Completion, and warranties are to extend to new owners if the property is sold.
Warranties should cover all rectification work to replace a defective product, including disassembly and reassembly of building elements to access and make good around the defective product.
Making up your own warranty periods without negotiating this with the product manufacturer is unadvisable as nomination of an unrealistic period could cause some disruption to construction.
