The project cost me far more than I was paid
Delay and disruption ate the margin, and none of it is in the account yet.
What's happening?
Every disrupted job leaves the same residue: prolonged preliminaries, plant on hire for months longer than tendered, labour standing or working out of sequence, supervision stretched over a programme that doubled. You know the job cost more, the accounts prove it in total, and yet the claim never gets made, because turning that pain into a recoverable head feels like an art nobody has time for.
The instinct to claim it as one global number is the fatal mistake: a lump sum blaming everything at once proves nothing and invites total rejection. What stands up is the slower route, event by event: this cause, that effect, these costs, from your own records. Built that way, the claim can survive scrutiny, and the records you hold are usually better than you think.
The solution
Find out what your records will prove, then build the claim head by head.
