The builder never answered my claim?
- Open the claim and go to What came back. Where this claim stands appears at the top on its own when something goes wrong. On a claim that runs normally, it shows nothing.
- Read the fact first. It names the day their answer was due, how many days have passed since, and the whole amount you claimed that is now unanswered.
- Below it, YourCA states what your own state Act says follows from that silence. The section is beside it, so you can check it and not take our word for it.
- Then read the steps. Each one shows its last day and the section of the Act the window comes from. A day that has run out still shows, marked as run out, because you most need that fact.
- If the step is the written notice of intention to apply for adjudication, YourCA already filled in the notice. It used this claim and your company record (Company, in Company admin).
- Choose Read the notice YourCA has drafted. Check every line. Correct anything wrong. Then print it or download it.
- Sign it and serve it yourself, the same way you served the claim. YourCA sends nothing to your builder, here or anywhere in the product.
- YourCA does not lodge the adjudication itself. It shows you the last day and who decides the application. The application and its submissions are yours.
Worth knowing
The steps and their windows genuinely differ by state. Queensland has no notice of intention, so YourCA offers none there, and its adjudication window runs from a different day. If the job records no state, or YourCA does not yet encode your state Act, YourCA refuses every date and says so. It does not estimate a time bar. A bar shown a week early costs you the entitlement as surely as one shown a week late. Nothing here is legal advice, and no lawyer has reviewed it. It is what your Act says, with the section printed beside it.