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Between practical completion and the final retention release sits a period, usually six or twelve months, with one job: defects notified, defects made good, certificate issued, money released. Each step has an owner, and the money strands where a step has none.
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The end of the rectification period is silent. No invoice, no application, no meeting, and that is exactly why the money sits there.
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A verbal instruction is real work with weak paper. The one-line confirmation email that fixes it, who has to have said it for it to count, and why this works the same on a domestic extension as on a commercial job.
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A fire two days after practical completion and a fire two days before are the same fire with entirely different consequences for who pays.
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Held should equal cumulative value at the applicable rates, less releases. When it does not, one of three specific things has gone wrong.
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QScope counts the days from due date to final date for payment under section 116, excluding the statutory non-days, so notices and any adjudication rest on enforceable dates.
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How to get from a submitted account to an agreed one. Sequencing the items, dealing with the three that are genuinely contentious, and why one meeting rarely does it.
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QScope records practical completion as the milestone that releases retention, starts the rectification period and begins the run to the final account.
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Concurrency is where an employer risk event and a contractor risk event both delay completion over the same period. The usual answer is time, without money.
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