Problems for Payments, Quantity Surveying

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Applications go out late or underpriced

The date slips because the build-up starts too late, and the certification pays for it.

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Notices land and nobody checks them

Certificates get accepted that a five-minute validity check would have challenged.

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My subcontractors' applications get certified on guesswork

Nobody assesses them against the site's records inside the window.

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We miss the notices we owe

The windows close before the paperwork exists, and the application becomes the notified sum.

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No one list holds the deadlines

Every contract carries its own dates and they live in different heads.

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Retention never comes back on its own

Releases fall due and nothing happens, job after job.

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An application has come in with a figure that can't be right

Everyone agrees it's wrong, nobody serves the notice, and the wrong figure becomes the sum legally due.

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They've served nothing, and we didn't know we could serve our own

No payment notice, no pay less notice, and a right sitting unused because nobody has ever drafted one.

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We're owed money and the contract's remedy is sitting unused

Non-payment has a statutory answer most subcontractors never use, because nobody has drafted it.

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We work the dates out by hand every cycle and check them twice

Every contract has its own dates, they live in a personal calendar, and nobody quite trusts the arithmetic.

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Materials are on site and we're not being paid for them

Delivered, stored, at our risk, and outside the valuation.

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Every subcontractor applies in a different format

Twelve spreadsheets a month, each one translated by hand before anything can be assessed.

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December closes with notices still un-issued

The site shuts down, the dates don't, and January opens on positions nobody controlled.

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The daywork sheets never come back signed

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

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We're paying against photographs we can't verify

Progress shots, materials-on-site shots, a schedule of items marked complete, and no independent record to check any of it against.

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We never charge the interest we're entitled to

Late payment carries a statutory rate and a fixed recovery sum, and almost nobody calculates either.

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The subcontract ledger is a job on its own

Applications, notices, contra-charges, retention and closing accounts across thirty subcontractors, landing on whoever has a spare hour.

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