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Problems
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There's a pay-when-paid clause in the contract I've been sent
They have sent a schedule of amendments and I cannot tell what it changes
The subcontract binds me to a main contract I've never seen
They want a collateral warranty from me and I do not know what I am signing up to
The delay damages in the contract I've been sent have no cap
The payment dates in the contract I've signed don't add up
They've rejected my claim under a time bar I didn't know I'd signed
They keep quoting clauses at me I didn't know I'd signed
They want me to start on a letter of intent
We started on a quote and a few emails, and now we disagree on what was agreed
I've gone past the letter of intent's cap
Costs and measurement
Problems
Procurement and tendering
Problems
- The tender says I must accept their terms with no amendments
- There's a pay-when-paid clause in the contract I've been sent
- They have sent a schedule of amendments and I cannot tell what it changes
- The subcontract binds me to a main contract I've never seen
- They want a collateral warranty from me and I do not know what I am signing up to
- The delay damages in the contract I've been sent have no cap
- I'm being asked for a fixed price on a job that runs for two years
- Construction estimating mistakes: checks before you commit
Commercial management
Problems
- I have an application or notice to serve and the clock is running
- The monthly payment admin keeps slipping
- Our applications have always been paid, so nobody has checked they're valid
- I'm doing changed work on a say-so
- The instructions happen on WhatsApp and stay there
- The variation register is empty and the job is half built
- The early warnings should have been raised and weren't
- We are not tracking our NEC notification deadlines
- Compensation events are drifting on my NEC job
- The compensation event quotation has to go in and we've never built one
- My notices keep going out late, or not at all
- Labour is on site and nobody records what it did
- The diary says the gang was moved but not where to
- Our record-keeping starts well and fades
- Nobody knows which records my contract requires
- We never know when our retention is due back
- Construction cash-flow problems: find the cause and next step
- Why is my construction project over budget?
Contracts and agreements
Problems
- The tender says I must accept their terms with no amendments
- There's a pay-when-paid clause in the contract I've been sent
- They have sent a schedule of amendments and I cannot tell what it changes
- The subcontract binds me to a main contract I've never seen
- They want a collateral warranty from me and I do not know what I am signing up to
- The delay damages in the contract I've been sent have no cap
- The payment dates in the contract I've signed don't add up
- They've rejected my claim under a time bar I didn't know I'd signed
- They keep quoting clauses at me I didn't know I'd signed
- They want me to start on a letter of intent
- We started on a quote and a few emails, and now we disagree on what was agreed
- I've gone past the letter of intent's cap
- My letter of intent has expired and I'm still working
Payment and deductions
Problems
- A pay less notice has landed and gutted my payment
- Their payment notice is wrong and the final date is days away
- I've had no payment notice, no pay less notice, just silence
- They've served nothing, and we didn't know we could serve our own
- I have an application or notice to serve and the clock is running
- We were paid short for months and never checked their notices
- The monthly payment admin keeps slipping
- Our applications have always been paid, so nobody has checked they're valid
- We're referring an underpayment to adjudication and don't know how the 28 days run
- My contractor or client has not paid me
- I'm being told they can't pay me until they've been paid
- They pay us late every month
- Payment is overdue and I'm thinking of stopping work
- We haven't checked late-payment interest or recovery costs
- My payment depends on something happening further up the chain
- There's a new back-charge on every payment
- They've charged me for defects I was never asked to fix
- Their set-off clause has taken money for another job
- Contra-charges I'd never seen have appeared on my final account
- Construction cash-flow problems: find the cause and next step
Changes and extra costs
Problems
- I'm being told the change is included in my scope
- I'm doing changed work on a say-so
- The instructions happen on WhatsApp and stay there
- They want the change done now and won't agree a price first
- The variation register is empty and the job is half built
- The daywork sheets never come back signed
- The change is being valued at rates that don't fit
- They say they never instructed the changes I've claimed
- The early warnings should have been raised and weren't
- We are not tracking our NEC notification deadlines
- Compensation events are drifting on my NEC job
- I'm worried the time bar has run on my compensation event
- They say it isn't a compensation event
- We notified the compensation event and heard nothing back
- The compensation event quotation has to go in and we've never built one
- They've made their own assessment and it's far too low
- I'm being asked for a fixed price on a job that runs for two years
- My quote was accepted six months after I priced it
- Steel went up 20% after I priced the job
- They say my price rises are my problem because I'm on a fixed price
- My fluctuations claim was refused because I didn't give notice
Delay and disruption
Problems
- Drawings are late and areas aren't ready, so my gangs can't work
- I've been sent off site and told to come back when it's ready
- I've been told to speed up, at my own cost
- My notices keep going out late, or not at all
- Labour is on site and nobody records what it did
- The diary says the gang was moved but not where to
- Our record-keeping starts well and fades
- Nobody knows which records my contract requires
- I've got an extension of time but no money for it
- I am not sure which prolongation costs I can claim
- The disruption is real and I can't put a number on it
- My job overran and I can't split the loss into heads of claim
- My case is strong but the numbers are thin
- I know the delay happened, but I can't prove it
- The records exist, but I can't find them
- I want my claim tested before the other party sees it
- My site diary won't stand up
- The other party has taken my figures apart
- My claim is in and I don't know the next move
- We're running late and no delay notice has gone out
- My extension of time has been refused or ignored
- They're taking liquidated damages out of my payments
- The other party is passing its delay costs down to me
Completion and contract endings
Problems
- Their assessment is well below my account and they say it's final
- I sent my final account months ago and heard nothing back
- I can't tell whether to settle or keep fighting
- The final account is due and I need my position checked
- I can see a dispute coming and my records are thin
- The dispute needs setting out item by item and nobody has the format
- The account has been open so long the people have left
- We're going into a settlement meeting with no plan
- The certificate my retention waits for has never been issued
- I've got retention sitting on jobs I finished years ago
- They won't release my retention until the employer releases theirs
- They're holding all my retention over defects that aren't mine
- We never know when our retention is due back
- I want to walk off site over unpaid money, but it could get us terminated
- They're building a case to terminate us, and my site team hasn't noticed
- I've been sent a default notice
- They terminated us out of the blue, with no default notice first
- We've been put off site and our materials and plant are still there
- My contract has been terminated and they want me to pay to finish it
Dispute resolution and defence
Problems
- My records wouldn't stand up if the other party made a claim against me
- The photographs that would answer a claim against me have no dates or locations
- The other party's counterclaim wipes out my final account
- The other party's number looks invented and I can't say why
- A notice of adjudication has landed and I have days to answer it
- The tender says I must accept their terms with no amendments
- There's a pay-when-paid clause in the contract I've been sent
- They have sent a schedule of amendments and I cannot tell what it changes
- The subcontract binds me to a main contract I've never seen
- They want a collateral warranty from me and I do not know what I am signing up to
- The delay damages in the contract I've been sent have no cap
- The payment dates in the contract I've signed don't add up
- They've rejected my claim under a time bar I didn't know I'd signed
- They keep quoting clauses at me I didn't know I'd signed
- They want me to start on a letter of intent
- We started on a quote and a few emails, and now we disagree on what was agreed
- I've gone past the letter of intent's cap
- My letter of intent has expired and I'm still working
- A pay less notice has landed and gutted my payment
- Their payment notice is wrong and the final date is days away
- I've had no payment notice, no pay less notice, just silence
- They've served nothing, and we didn't know we could serve our own
- I have an application or notice to serve and the clock is running
- We were paid short for months and never checked their notices
- The monthly payment admin keeps slipping
- Our applications have always been paid, so nobody has checked they're valid
- We're referring an underpayment to adjudication and don't know how the 28 days run
- My contractor or client has not paid me
- I'm being told they can't pay me until they've been paid
- They pay us late every month
- Payment is overdue and I'm thinking of stopping work
- We haven't checked late-payment interest or recovery costs
- My payment depends on something happening further up the chain
- I'm being told the change is included in my scope
- I'm doing changed work on a say-so
- The instructions happen on WhatsApp and stay there
- They want the change done now and won't agree a price first
- The variation register is empty and the job is half built
- The daywork sheets never come back signed
- The change is being valued at rates that don't fit
- They say they never instructed the changes I've claimed
- The early warnings should have been raised and weren't
- We are not tracking our NEC notification deadlines
- Compensation events are drifting on my NEC job
- I'm worried the time bar has run on my compensation event
- They say it isn't a compensation event
- We notified the compensation event and heard nothing back
- The compensation event quotation has to go in and we've never built one
- They've made their own assessment and it's far too low
- Drawings are late and areas aren't ready, so my gangs can't work
- I've been sent off site and told to come back when it's ready
- I've been told to speed up, at my own cost
- My notices keep going out late, or not at all
- Labour is on site and nobody records what it did
- The diary says the gang was moved but not where to
- Our record-keeping starts well and fades
- Nobody knows which records my contract requires
- I've got an extension of time but no money for it
- I am not sure which prolongation costs I can claim
- The disruption is real and I can't put a number on it
- My job overran and I can't split the loss into heads of claim
- My case is strong but the numbers are thin
- I know the delay happened, but I can't prove it
- The records exist, but I can't find them
- I want my claim tested before the other party sees it
- My site diary won't stand up
- The other party has taken my figures apart
- My claim is in and I don't know the next move
- I'm being asked for a fixed price on a job that runs for two years
- My quote was accepted six months after I priced it
- Steel went up 20% after I priced the job
- They say my price rises are my problem because I'm on a fixed price
- My fluctuations claim was refused because I didn't give notice
- There's a new back-charge on every payment
- They've charged me for defects I was never asked to fix
- Their set-off clause has taken money for another job
- Contra-charges I'd never seen have appeared on my final account
- We're running late and no delay notice has gone out
- My extension of time has been refused or ignored
- They're taking liquidated damages out of my payments
- The other party is passing its delay costs down to me
- Their assessment is well below my account and they say it's final
- I sent my final account months ago and heard nothing back
- I can't tell whether to settle or keep fighting
- The final account is due and I need my position checked
- I can see a dispute coming and my records are thin
- The dispute needs setting out item by item and nobody has the format
- The account has been open so long the people have left
- We're going into a settlement meeting with no plan
- The certificate my retention waits for has never been issued
- I've got retention sitting on jobs I finished years ago
- They won't release my retention until the employer releases theirs
- They're holding all my retention over defects that aren't mine
- We never know when our retention is due back
- My records wouldn't stand up if the other party made a claim against me
- The photographs that would answer a claim against me have no dates or locations
- The other party's counterclaim wipes out my final account
- The other party's number looks invented and I can't say why
- A notice of adjudication has landed and I have days to answer it
- I want to walk off site over unpaid money, but it could get us terminated
- They're building a case to terminate us, and my site team hasn't noticed
- I've been sent a default notice
- They terminated us out of the blue, with no default notice first
- We've been put off site and our materials and plant are still there
- My contract has been terminated and they want me to pay to finish it
- Construction estimating mistakes: checks before you commit
- Construction cash-flow problems: find the cause and next step
- Why is my construction project over budget?
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