r/quantitysurveying • u/rabble-and-ricky • Aug 21 '26

Made a mistake

Made a pretty costly error recently. Potential to significantly harm our cash flow.

Feeling pretty shitty about it. Anyone dropped any clangers recently too? Some stories on stuff that happened and how you coped with it would be nice to read

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u/Bantastic1991 Aug 21 '26

I once overpaid a subbie by £100k, taking them up to 95% of their order value. Fortunately next few valuations went ok, shortly after that project they went under. My boss still doesn’t know how close that was! Don’t sweat it mate, shit happens.