Can you get back delay damages our main contractor has already deducted?

Delay Damages Claim tests the charge against the rules in your subcontract and the extensions you applied for. First we take those rules, clause by clause, from your signed subcontract. That means the rate or basis of damages, the completion dates and how the period is counted. It also means the extension of time terms, any cap, and any rule for work taken over early. Then we check each part of the charge against your records. Those are your delay notices, your extension applications and the replies, the completion records, and the Pay Less Notice or statement that carried it. We redo the arithmetic and set it beside the sum taken. You decide what to press. We put your position to your main contractor and negotiate, or run adjudication where the sum and the evidence justify it. We then trace the money to the valuation it comes back in. Whether your completion date should have moved further is for a programming expert, where it decides the charge. Whether a rate is enforceable is a question for your solicitor. If a Pay Less Notice carrying delay damages has just arrived, a written challenge goes out in your name within the period first. The full review follows.