Case No. HT-11-503

. 7.6 Costs of Installing, Servicing and Maintaining Delta Drain 293.The claim was an uninsured claim in the sum of £10,000. In opening, Mr Evans said that this was reduced to £500. There was no basis even for the reduced sum claimed. Furthermore, the claim was not made out on the facts. Barnard Associates recommended a maintenance contract with Direct Pumps Limited, but no such maintenance contract was entered into and there was no evidence of any maintenance cost ever having been incurred. This head of claim therefore fails. 7.7 Other Abandoned Claims 294.The remaining uninsured claims, such as the claim for the costs of renting a staff flat and the alleged loss of rental payments from January 2009 to December 2010 have all been abandoned. The latter claim was abandoned during the trial, although it was pleaded as being worth £368,000 and had been opened as a claim worth £184,000 (albeit on the basis that it could not be maintained as well as the loss of profit claim). In this way, a series of pleaded claims worth well over £1 million was reduced to just over half that by the start of the trial, and even less by the end of the closing submissions. 7.8 Summary 295.For these reasons, the only additional head of claim I allow is that relating to wasted staff costs, in the (reduced) sum of