NOTICE OF DELAY, READY TO EDIT.
A notice that something outside your control has moved the schedule, with the date it began and the factual cause.
Almost every subcontract requires written notice of a delay within a stated number of days, and almost nobody sends one. A delay you absorbed silently is a delay you agreed to, and the acceleration cost that follows is then yours. It's emailed as an attachment, and everything you need to change is highlighted. This one goes UP: to the general contractor, the architect or the owner.
Read this before you send it. This is a real legal document rather than an example, and it's a starting point rather than a finished one. Notice windows, filing deadlines and the enforceability of several standard clauses vary by state, and your own contracts will have terms this doesn't know about. Have your attorney review it before you use it. SPM isn't a law firm and nothing here is legal advice.
3 THINGS, IN ORDER.
Send it inside your subcontract's notice window. Check the number of days before you need it rather than after.
State the factual cause: late design revisions, incomplete predecessor work, restricted access. Not frustration.
Say what it does to your schedule and reserve your rights on cost. A notice that claims nothing preserves nothing.
No charge. It goes to a real address rather than sitting on a link, which is the only thing asked for. Every field you need to change is highlighted in the document itself.
EVERY CONTROL TEMPLATE, ONE QR CODE.
Collecting these one email at a time works. A QR code printed in the book, with a password behind it, opening every CONTROL template as a download at runoncfos.com. The ebook is $3.99 on preorder until 5 October 2026 and $9.99 after that, and the paperback is $24.99 from 1 October.
BEFORE YOU USE IT.
