Worked scenario
Approved in week two, changed in week five, unchanged in the quote
Interiors is a business where the client sees the work progressing and therefore keeps having ideas, and the cost of those ideas is usually absorbed.
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The client approves a design. Work begins. Seeing it take shape, they refine — a different handle, a changed finish, a unit moved. Each is small and each is agreed on site.
Progress invites revision
This is not an awkward client; it is the nature of a project the client can watch. Any process that treats revision as exceptional will be overwhelmed by it.
Freeze, then price
A defined freeze point makes what follows a variation rather than a disagreement. Without it, everything is arguably within the original scope, and the contractor loses every argument.
Both sides seeing the total
Clients are rarely trying to avoid paying. They lose track, exactly as the contractor does. A running variation total presented as it accumulates prevents the final account being the first time anyone adds it up.
What changes
- Approved specification frozen at a defined point
- Changes after freeze quoted before being actioned
- Cumulative variation visible to both sides
- Final account reconciled against approvals, not memory
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