By the time the rectification period ends the team has moved on and the job is closed in everyone’s mind. A percentage of the contract sum is still sitting with the employer, and nothing prompts anybody.
Snagging at practical completion and the schedule of defects at the end of the rectification period are different documents with different consequences. The second one is contractual: the certificate of making good depends on it, and the balance of the retention depends on that certificate.
QScope keeps notified and made good as separate dates on every item, because those two dates are what show the period was operated properly if anyone examines it later.
The certificate of making good releases the balance of the retention. Issuing it while items are outstanding hands back the last of the security for work that has not been carried out, and that money is not coming back.
QScope warns at the certificate, not in a manual. The schedule and the certificate are two views of the same fact, and they cannot drift apart.
The rectification period runs from practical completion, and the schedule has to be issued before that period ends. Get the completion date wrong and the whole window is counted from the wrong day.
QScope takes the date from the practical completion certificate and calculates the rectification end from it, so the schedule is issued inside the period the contract allows rather than a year late.
The schedule of defects exists because a percentage of the contract sum is still held, and the certificate of making good is what releases it. Clear the schedule and the retention module hands the balance back to the contractor.
Until then the figure sits on the dashboard and on the retention notice, the same number in both places, waiting on work that has not been finished.
A defect argued two years after handover turns on evidence, and the evidence is the dated photograph nobody filed. A note in a schedule is an assertion. A photograph tied to the item and the date it was taken is proof.
QScope keeps the photographs, the correspondence and the notices against the same project as the schedule, so the file is assembled as you go rather than reconstructed the week before an adjudication.
At the end of the rectification period, within the period the contract allows. Issuing it a year late is not a stronger position, it is a weaker one.
No. The certificate of making good states that the notified defects have been made good. Liability for defects that were not apparent continues for the limitation period.
Yes. Export to CSV, or print the schedule as a formal document with the trade against each item.
Record it as disputed rather than leaving it outstanding. It still blocks the certificate, which is correct, and the status makes clear that the block is a disagreement rather than a delay.
Not your whole portfolio. One live job, one certificate. If it does not save you time the first time you use it, walk away and take your data with you.