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Getting paid

Getting paid, and the notices
that decide it.

Nine articles on what the Housing Grants, Construction and Regeneration Act 1996 gives a subcontractor: a right to be paid on a fixed timetable, and remedies for when that timetable is missed.

9 articles

Getting paid, in one place.

Almost every payment dispute in UK construction turns on a date rather than on the work. The Act fixes a due date, a period in which the paying party must serve a payment notice, a deadline for a pay less notice, and a final date for payment. Miss the pay less window and the notified sum becomes payable in full, whatever anybody later argues the work was worth.

That is why these nine articles are mostly about paperwork and deadlines rather than about workmanship. If you want the dates for a specific valuation, the payment date calculator works them out from one date and your contract periods.

Technical drawings and tools on a workbenchGetting paid··5 min readAn application for payment that does not come back rejectedFour reasons account for most rejections, and none of them is the price. What the document has to contain, what has to sit behind it, and the date that matters more than the total.Read it →Steel reinforcement being fixed in a deep excavationGetting paid··5 min readGetting paid for variations you were told to get on withThe entitlement is rarely the problem. The evidence is. What stands up when the instruction was verbal, and the one email that changes the argument.Read it →A modern office interiorGetting paid··5 min readWhen a missing notice hands you the moneyAn adjudication that asks nothing about what the work was worth, only whether the notices were served. What it wins, and the second adjudication that usually follows it.Read it →A row of tracked excavatorsGetting paid··5 min readStopping work for non-payment, without breaching your contractA statutory right with narrow conditions and real leverage. What has to be true before you can use it, what the notice must say, and what walking off without one costs.Read it →A hand writing on documents at a deskGetting paid··5 min readCharging interest on a late payment, and the sums nobody claimsStatutory interest runs at eight per cent above base, and a fixed compensation sum sits on top of it that almost nobody asks for. Both are automatic entitlements rather than favours.Read it →Site operative in a hard hat and safety glassesGetting paid··6 min readWhat the Construction Act actually gives youSix rights that apply whether or not your contract mentions them, and whether or not anything was ever signed. What each one is, and where it stops.Read it →Operatives working among steel reinforcement on a slabGetting paid··8 min readWhen the contractor above you will not payThe remedies run in a fixed order and each one costs more than the last. What to do first, what every step is worth, and the rung most disputes never get past.Read it →A hand writing on documents at a deskGetting paid··8 min readPay less notices, and the timetable behind themFour dates govern every interim payment in UK construction, and statute sets them rather than goodwill. What each one is, and what a late notice costs.Read it →An electrician testing at a distribution boardGetting paid··6 min readPay when paid, and why it does not bind youMaking your money conditional on somebody else being paid has been ineffective in UK construction since 1998. The clause is still written, and still quoted down the phone.Read it →

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