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Forced back charges for scope changes out of my contract.

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I have completed a job for a GC which was slated to be completed by Feb of this year. Due to this they requested us to do multiple move ons, site visits and meetings over the course of several months. All during this time prices hyper inflated on materials which they said they were unaware of. Also during this delay other projects started and the majority of my man power was used on this. After months of calling they finally were ready. I was only able to provide two techs to the job and agreed for one week of suplemental labor provided by the GC at inflated costs. the end of that week I told them i would provide more man power and would not need their laborers. The GC still had laborers on site and are back charging me for changes out of my scope. I refused to sign the change order explaining that the following week I told them they were not needed. I also stated that the changes in the civil were not part of my scope. The owner of the GC is forcing me to sign and saying he is going to add other charges to this because I delayed his job. I will not talk to them on the phone anymore due to their erratic story changes and trying to keep it all docuemeneted on emails. This is not a large project- base contact is 35k and they are trying to deduct over 11k out of my contract and telling me more is to come. Do i even have a leg to stand on?

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