u/Life-isboring

Hi guys, as stated above my company is a subcontractor in the construction business. Specifically pertaining to this issue, we were a sub-subcon for this particular project under this subcontractor A. Throughout our few months of working, we kept having issues regarding work certification (our rates go by $/m2, but their QS would consistently under-certify our work area even though we have always verified on site with their team. They would also keep coming up with excuses like signatures are needed etc. even though there was no mention of such requirements previously

After a few months, they decided to issue a final payment certificate to us and we issued the final invoice accordingly. These work areas were totally certified properly as I forced their site team to go through the entire area and get their signatures, to ensure they had no excuse to dispute anything later on. In the end, the invoices totalled about $50k. This was 6 months ago.

Until now, they have not issued any form of payment to us despite our consistent chasing. Initially, they assured payment would be made and they were pending payment from the main contractor (which should not even have been a valid reason). Last week, the contract manager basically told me she was not in charge of payment then stopped replying me. Other numbers and management were not picking up as well.

Now I am at a loss of what to do - should I bang table and make noise at their office? or should i seek legal alternatives? I know the correct answer wouldve been legal but I am not sure it is the best way considering my amounts owed would be quite minimal compared to the millions of dollars construction projects face. Need any advise anyone is able to provide. Thank you.

Hi all, I am from Singapore working under my dad in the powerfloating business as a subcontractor. Essentially, we provide the following services:

Wood-floating to the level markings provided

Powerfloating to smooth finish

Supply and Application of hardener compound

Indentation of circular indents/ groovelines

and we usually service contractors doing work for carparks, industrial buildings and warehouses. As someone previously in the finance industry, I find myself lacking in knowledge and even though I have tried reading up on materials relating to concrete work, construction in general has too many variables and grey areas to navigate without experience. I would like to enquire about some of the doubts in my head to see if you guys (I assume mostly from the US) do things differently!

1. How to achieve good finishing in the rain? Whenever heavy rain starts to fall, the surface "cream" gets swept off and usually after the rain the finishing wont be good anymore as a lot of aggregate might be exposed. However contractors always blame it on us (they always suggest to cover the concrete with canvas, but we reject them as it would result in a lot of footprints which makes it way harder to rectify especially when we typically work on areas of 1000m2 at a time).

2. Any novel ways to maintain levellness? my guys modify to make a bull-float looking tool made of wood and stick a water level on it. these projects do not have a high enough spec to warrant using a laser level to check. so just checking around how other countries do it.

Thank you!