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We priced one thing, we are being made to build another, and the answer keeps coming back that it's all design development.

Changes keep arriving by phone call and site conversation, and almost none of it is in writing.

The work gets done, the record never leaves somebody's phone, and the account pays for it.

The instruction is clear and the work is urgent. Every quotation we send gets the same reply: get on with it and we'll sort the money later.

What's been instructed, what's been priced, what's been agreed: nobody can say.

The work was done on daywork, and by the time it's valued nobody will confirm the hours.

The variation is agreed, but they've priced it with rates that are nowhere near what the work actually involved.

Our application includes changes we were asked to make, and the main contractor's answer is that nobody instructed them.