The paperwork desk
For trade subcontractors: lien waivers and pay applications drafted before the GC has to ask.
Shown on a demo shop, Triangle Mechanical, with made-up jobs and amounts.
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The desk opens on what is held up and why, in dollars. The office starts the day on the biggest check, not the oldest email.
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Each certificate is read against the GC’s rules and counted down. A morning email names the job it would stop.
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One press drafts the North Carolina waiver with the amount and the date filled in. The shop signs it and sends it.
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Built from the contract lines to the cent, and it cannot be marked sent until its waiver is drafted.
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The foreman logs the reroute from the truck. Hours and materials turn it into a price for the next bill.
It never signs a paper or pays a bill. The shop does that, and the desk says what is waiting. Call me at 919-909-0806 or book the paperwork audit.