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A justified deduction made without the contractual mechanism is an unjustified deduction. Notice requirements, evidence, and why netting a contra charge inside a valuation is the wrong place.
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There are three separate daywork percentages, not one, and they are in your contract particulars rather than in any standard table. What each has to cover, and why the base under them matters more than the number.
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Practical completion is what releases the first half. What it takes to get it certified, why the rate has to drop in the same month, and why the second half is the money that goes missing.
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A saving found by the contractor and a saving instructed by the client are different things. The contract rarely says so.
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One is a commercial deal with a price attached. The other is a claim built on a refused extension, and it is a much harder argument.
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Usually yes. The Construction Act struck out pay-when-paid clauses in 1996, so your subcontractor’s money is due on the subcontract’s own dates, whatever your client is doing. The one exception, the clauses that sneak the idea back in, and how to manage the gap honestly.
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A pay less notice is the only lawful way to pay you less than the sum notified. What it must contain, when it must arrive, what happens when it never does, and why none of it applies on a job for someone living in the house.
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Most accounts are not disputed, they are abandoned. Two or three items stall and the whole document sits there for two years.
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The slack between when an activity can finish and when it must. Under most standard forms the answer is nobody, which satisfies neither side.
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