All Forum Posts by: Trip Guinan

At no point should you pay any contractor ahead of the work currently in place for a given month. A contractor gets paid once per month and it is common for the GC to frontload the payment application and it is the responsibility of your architect or you to verify the amount of work in place matches the amount requested for payment. If the electrical sub is asking for payment upfront, that is a red flag. 

The process that you originally described is trimout. It sounds like they did the rough in and wanted to do the trimout in one shot making it much more difficult for the GC to finish drywall install. 

You need to support your GC by telling the elec sub what to do.