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The daywork sheets never come back signed

The work was done on daywork, and by the time it's valued nobody will confirm the hours.

01The month's dates
02The application out
03The certificate in
04Subcontractors assessed
05The notices served
06Retention release
You are here: Unsigned daywork ages into disputed daywork.

What's happening?

Daywork runs on contemporaneous confirmation - that is the deal: cost-based payment in exchange for records agreed while the facts are fresh. Sheets that go in weeks late, or never, break the deal. By valuation, the supervisor who watched the work has rotated off, the hours look big in hindsight, and what should have been a signature becomes a negotiation from memory.

The fix is procedural, not clever: sheets prepared daily, presented for signature while the work is still visible, escalated the day they come back unsigned - and the contract's daywork terms followed to the letter, because a sheet in the wrong form invites the exact challenge it was meant to prevent. The template holds the right form; the capture habit around it is what the records service builds on site.

The solution

Signed while the work is still on the ground.

If you would rather it were done for you, Site Records & Progress Capture is the service that does it.