Written for the people who value the work

Monthly is the default and it is usually right. What matters more is that the report says what moved since the last one, and why.

A termination made without proper grounds, or without following the procedure, can itself be a repudiatory breach. The other side can accept it and claim damages. Getting the ground and the process right is the whole game.

There is no legal maximum and no standard figure to fall back on. Where the percentage comes from, what you will actually meet, and what twenty one thousand pounds of difference looks like on one job.

Every dispute page in this series has the same footnote: it depends what you wrote at the start. This is the page about the start. Nine things a quote needs, none of them legalese, and the two clauses builders write for themselves that backfire.

Most of what a surveyor knows about a project is not in the file. A handover that transfers only documents transfers about half of it.

Upwards: you do, because your supplier’s failure is your risk, not the client’s, and no extension of time list covers it. Downwards: maybe the supplier, if the order terms allow it, and merchant terms are written so they mostly do not.

Yes, and the route has a name: a smash and grab adjudication enforces the notified sum without anyone valuing the work. What makes the claim stick, what the client can do next, and why the money is usually yours to hold but not always yours to keep.

The notified sum is the figure that becomes payable under the Construction Act, whoever thinks the work was worth something else. Where the number comes from, how a pay less notice changes it, and why none of this exists on a job for someone living in the house.

The obvious ones get declined. The damaging ones develop quietly on a project that started out perfectly clean.