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Subcontractors

The firms you engage,
before and after the order.

Finding them, checking them, and paying them without an argument about what the invoice should have said.

3 articles

Subcontractors, in one place.

Most of what goes wrong with a subcontractor was decided before they started. The checks that were not run, the terms that were agreed verbally, and the valuation nobody wrote down all turn into the same thing three months later: a disagreement about money that neither side can evidence.

These 3 articles take the relationship in order, from finding a firm worth using through to raising the invoice yourself so there is nothing left to disagree about.

A row of tracked excavatorsSubcontractors··5 min readWhy you cannot find reliable subbiesIt is treated as a hiring problem and it is a retention problem. The firms that get the good trades are the ones that are straightforward to work for.Read it →Site team on a concrete slab with reinforcement beyondSubcontractors··6 min readVetting a subcontractor before you instruct themNine checks, what each one is actually protecting you from, and the two that firms skip and then discover matter. Most of it is twenty minutes and free.Read it →Writing on documents at a deskSubcontractors··6 min readSelf-billing, and who raises the invoiceYou value the work, you write the invoice, and your subcontractor never sends one. What HMRC requires before you can do that, and what it fixes about subcontract payment.Read it →

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Site servicesThe three services a site cannot open without, what each one costs to put in, and the compliance estate that sits behind them once it is running.3 articlesGetting paidNine 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 articlesCommercialEleven articles on the commercial side of a contracting business: what belongs in a price, what routinely gets left out of one, and where the margin goes between winning a job and closing the final account.11 articlesHealth and safetyEleven articles on what the Construction (Design and Management) Regulations 2015 and RIDDOR require, who holds each duty, and what an inspector asks to see first.11 articlesTax and CISSeven articles on the two tax regimes that touch almost every construction payment made in the UK, and the deadlines that carry an automatic penalty when they slip.7 articlesChoosing softwareNine articles written for the person who has to make the decision rather than the person selling into it, including what the money goes on, what the support arrangement is really worth, and where the systems you already run reach their limit.9 articlesWinning workThree articles on the paperwork that decides whether you are allowed to price a job at all, which is a different problem from pricing it well.3 articlesReducing riskFive articles on spotting a main contractor in difficulty early enough to act on it, and on what can still be recovered once it is too late to.5 articlesSubcontractorsFinding them, checking them, and paying them without an argument about what the invoice should have said.3 articlesPlant and assetsThree ways plant quietly costs money: kit nobody can find, hire that nobody stopped, and an examination date nobody was watching.3 articles
Next step

The register, the order and the money.

A subcontractor record that carries the trade, the ratings, the insurance expiry and every order and payment against that company is the difference between checking a firm and remembering that somebody did. Unibuild removes a firm from approved status automatically when its cover lapses, which withdraws it from the order form rather than leaving the decision to whoever is raising it.

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