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Notes on running contract work
Practical, from real installs. How contractors keep the job, the money and the materials on one line.
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Short Payment Certificate: What to Do
A payment certificate arriving below your claim is not always a dispute. The right move depends on which of three causes applies.
Read →Pay-When-Paid in Thai Subcontracts
Pay-when-paid clauses let a main contractor delay your payment without breaching the contract. Four things to check before you sign.
Read →The Stage Invoice Package Checklist
Most invoice queries trace back to a missing document. Here is how to assemble a stage submission that clears accounts the first time.
Read →Your Stage Billing Setup in Week One
The decisions made in project week one determine whether billing stages run smoothly or become problems you chase at month close.
Read →What Your Retention Clause Must Say
Before you sign, four elements in the retention clause decide whether that 5% ever becomes billable. Most subcontractors skip past them.
Read →Credit Terms Your Timeline Cannot Show
Thai subcontractors who bill on time still wait months for cash. Here is what main contractor credit terms mean for your invoice timing and planning.
Read →The Two-Role Rule on a Shared Timeline
A construction timeline needs two roles: one holds the plan, one runs the site. Here is what each job involves and why the same person cannot do both.
Read →A Stage Is Late: How Do You Recover It?
A billing pin passes its date. Three causes need three different fixes. Here is how to find which one you have and what to move first.
Read →Track Material Dates on Your Timeline
When a supplier delivery slips, that slip moves into your billing stage. Here is how to make it visible before the work stops.
Read →Catch the Billing Cycle Every Month
How to find your main contractor's monthly cut-off and align your acceptance documents so you do not wait another 30 days.
Read →Acceptance Forms That Actually Hold Up
A signed form is not enough. Four elements decide whether your acceptance document protects you when a stage is disputed months later.
Read →Chasing Overdue Retention in Writing
Once the defects period ends, the release is yours to request. How to write the chase, when to send it, and what to file if nothing comes back.
Read →Gantt Bars Too Long for Weekly Review
A bar that spans six weeks shows the same status at every review. Breaking it into zone-by-zone units makes each bar actionable on Tuesday.
Read →Two Projects on One Timeline
Adding a second project to a working billing timeline costs less admin than expected, once the method is familiar on the first.
Read →A Weekly Review That Actually Sticks
Most construction reviews die in month two. A fixed three-item agenda and two questions in the chat group are enough to keep it running.
Read →Read Billing Stages Before You Sign
The billing problems you face on site were written into the contract first. Four clauses worth checking before you put your name on it.
Read →How to Pick Your Pilot Project
The project you start with shapes whether the system holds. Four criteria that point to the right choice when you have more than one running.
Read →Sync Shop Production to Install Dates
When the shop and the site run on separate schedules, the crew arrives before the material does. Here is how to put both on one line.
Read →Get Your Stage Accepted First Time
A stage submission that comes back with queries costs two to three weeks. Here is what to package so the main contractor accepts it in the first round.
Read →The money you earned but never billed
Count two things sitting in your own files: stages the client accepted but nobody invoiced, and retention past its release date.
Read →The plan that died in month two
Construction schedules rarely fail because the plan was wrong. They fail because it was too detailed to keep current.
Read →Variation Work That Never Gets Billed
Extra work done on site rarely fails to get done. It fails to get billed because nobody priced it before the next instruction arrived.
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