Written for the people who value the work

Yes, if the delay is one your contract gives time for and you claim it properly. Why an extension of time is really a shield against delay damages, why the notice matters more than the argument, and why more time and more money are two separate claims.

Not profit. Cash: everything the job has paid you, minus everything you have paid out on it, today. One subtraction most builders never do per job, why the answer is negative more often than anyone admits, and the three numbers that move it.

Dayworks pay recorded hours, plant and materials plus your contract percentages, and they only work when the sheets are signed as the work happens. When to insist on them, and when measured rates serve you better.

Measured work, variations, materials, fluctuations, loss and expense. What is properly included at interim stage, what waits for the final account, and why the distinction protects you.

There is a statutory right to stop work when the notified sum is not paid, and it needs seven days notice in writing. What it covers, what you can recover, and why it does not exist on a job for someone living in the house.

On a job longer than 45 days the Act gives a right to stage payments, and a silent contract gets the Scheme read into it. When completion-only payment stands, and the difference between what you signed and what he invented.

It depends who carries the design risk under your contract. Where the client’s designer develops the drawings, added scope is a variation. Where you priced an outcome, development is yours. The test, and the habit that settles it.

Four policies do the real work: public liability for harm to others, employers liability because the law requires it, contract works cover for the half-built thing itself, and professional indemnity only where you design. What each one answers for.