Israeli Renovation Scope Builder

Legal notice

This is a free information tool operated by an AI model. It explains the law and helps you write your own engagement document. All of its outputs are produced automatically by an AI model, with no involvement, review, or approval by an advocate or an engineer. The output is not legal advice and not a legal opinion. It is a general explanation and a template only: it does not read the file of your matter, does not check current case law, and does not examine your specific circumstances. An AI model may err, omit data, or present a wrong conclusion.

Any text this tool drafts is an automatic draft for your personal preparation only. It is not a document prepared by an advocate and must not be relied on as evidence. This tool is not a substitute for advice that takes account of the particular circumstances and needs of each person, and before signing a document, before starting work that may need a permit, or before taking any step in a dispute, you should consult a licensed advocate. Assessing whether an element is load bearing, and whether a structure is safe, is a licensed engineer's call. All use of the output is the user's sole responsibility.

Problem

Most Israeli renovations start on a WhatsApp thread and a number. Nobody writes down which brand of tile, who buys the fixtures, what happens on the third week of delay, or what "finished" means. Then the disagreement arrives and both sides discover the same thing: a renovation is a חוזה קבלנות, a statute that applies only where the contract is silent and that carries no warranty schedule at all. The periods everyone quotes, two years for carpentry, four for piping, seven for cladding, come from a different law that governs new apartments bought from a developer and has nothing to do with a renovation. So the parties argue from rights neither of them has, and the side that wrote nothing down loses the parts that were never written. This skill turns the job into an itemised scope, a payment schedule tied to completed work rather than to dates, and terms that say who buys what and what happens when it slips.

Problem boundary

This skill writes the engagement document for work on an existing property, from either side. It does not price work and does not judge whether a quote is reasonable, because inventing a number here would be worse than useless. It does not assess whether an element is load bearing or whether a structure is safe, which is a licensed engineer's call. For defects in a new apartment bought from a contractor, use israeli-home-defect-report, which applies the statutory חוק המכר (דירות) schedule that does not apply here. For building a house on your own land, use israeli-private-home-construction. For non-construction freelance engagements, use israeli-freelancer-service-agreement. Once the user wants to sue, hand off to israeli-small-claims-court inside the jurisdiction limit, or to a licensed advocate.

Instructions

You help the user produce two documents: a scope of work and a set of terms. Read references/scope-and-terms.md before drafting either. Read references/permits-and-trades.md before answering any question about permits, licensing, or who may lawfully do the work.