4 deadlines NoticeGuard models for Wisconsin: what each one counts from, the statute it was read from, and the statute text.
Information, not legal advice. This app reports what the statute says and cites the section it read. It is not legal advice, it does not file anything for you, and it does not tell you what to do.
Verify with the statute or an attorney. Statutes change, and courts reinterpret them. Every deadline in this app comes from a statute read on the date shown next to its citation - that snapshot can go out of date. Missing a mechanics lien deadline can extinguish your claim permanently, so confirm any deadline you are relying on with an attorney licensed in that state before you act on it.
Data verified: statute text retrieved 2026-09-21 (each citation below carries its own date). Rule data from the NoticeGuard app, source commit 22f9300.
Given to the owner - either included in a written contract with a copy provided, or, if there is no written contract, served separately within 10 days of the prime contractor's own first furnishing. Only required on a wholly-residential project of 4 or fewer family living units - but on such a project, missing it can forfeit the PRIME CONTRACTOR'S OWN lien rights, not just a downstream party's.
What it counts from. 10 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Original contractor (when you tick "This project is wholly residential with 4 or fewer family living units").
Wis. Stat. § 779.02 (2)(a) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Every prime contractor who enters into a contract with the owner for a work of improvement on the owner's land and who has contracted or will contract with any subcontractors, suppliers, or service providers to perform, furnish, or procure labor, services, materials, plans, or specifications for the work of improvement shall include in any written contract with the owner the notice required by this paragraph, and shall provide the owner with a copy of the written contract. If no written contract for the work of improvement is entered into, the notice shall be prepared separately and served on the owner or authorized agent within 10 days after the first labor, services, materials, plans, or specifications are performed, furnished, or procured for the improvement by or pursuant to the authority of the prime contractor.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). Confirmed from § 779.02(2)(c): "If any prime contractor required to give the notice... fails to give notice as required, the prime contractor does not have the lien and remedy provided by this subchapter" - a total forfeiture of the PRIME CONTRACTOR'S OWN lien rights, not merely a downstream party's - unless a narrow fallback is met (full payment to every subcontractor/supplier/service provider within the § 779.06 time periods, and either none of them asserts a lien or all fully waive lien rights). See `limitations`.
Also stated next to this deadline.
This deadline only exists at all where the project is wholly residential with 4 or fewer family living units (§ 779.02(1)(c)) - on any nonresidential or larger project, no prime-contractor notice is required, and this app correctly shows nothing.
If the notice is instead included directly in a written contract with the owner (with a copy provided), there is no separate 10-day clock - this app always shows the 10-day-from-first-furnishing deadline, which is the fallback rule for when no such written contract exists.
Subcontractor's or supplier's notice to owner
Served on the owner or authorized agent, counted from the day this claimant first performed, furnished, or procured labor, services, materials, plans, or specifications.
What it counts from. 60 days after first furnishing (commenced work).
Applies to. Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Wis. Stat. § 779.02 (2)(b) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“Every person other than a prime contractor who performs, furnishes, or procures labor, materials, plans, or specifications for an improvement shall have the lien and remedy under this subchapter only if within 60 days after performing, furnishing, or procuring the first labor, services, materials, plans, or specifications the person serves a written notice, in 2 signed copies, on the owner or authorized agent at the last-known post-office address.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). A claimant who misses this deadline "shall have no lien... to which the failure relates" (§ 779.02(3)) for work furnished before the owner actually receives notice - but a late notice still preserves the lien for labor or materials furnished AFTER the owner actually receives it, with the burden of proving that timing on the claimant. Not an all-or-nothing forfeiture the way the prime contractor's missed notice is.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Applies on every project, not just residential ones - unlike the prime contractor's notice, this one has no project-size or -type exception in this app's model.
The owner (or agent) must forward a copy to the construction lender within 10 days of receipt - a downstream obligation this app does not track.
File the claim for lien
Filed with the clerk of circuit court for the county where the land lies, counted from this claimant's own last labor, services, materials, plans, or specifications furnished.
What it counts from. 180 days after last furnishing (last day on site).
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Wis. Stat. § 779.06 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“No lien under s. 779.01 shall exist and no action to enforce a lien under s. 779.01 shall be maintained unless within 6 months from the date the lien claimant performed, furnished, or procured the last labor, services, materials, plans, or specifications, a claim for the lien is filed in the office of the clerk of circuit court of the county in which the lands affected by the lien lie...”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states plainly "no lien... shall exist" without a timely-filed claim - a right-extinguishing deadline, not merely procedural.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 180 calendar days (6 months), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
Each claimant runs its OWN clock from its OWN last furnishing - confirmed from the statute's own text ("the lien claimant performed... the last labor"), not a single shared project-completion date.
Must have attached copies of any § 779.02 notice given and the (unmodeled) § 779.06(2) 30-day notice of intent - this app does not verify that attachment requirement.
Commence an action to enforce the lien
Counted from the date the claim for lien was filed. The same statutory sentence that sets the 6-month filing deadline also sets this 2-year enforcement deadline - read them together.
What it counts from. 730 days after notice of construction lien recorded.
Applies to. Original contractor, Subcontractor, Supplier, Preconstruction service.
Wis. Stat. § 779.06 (1) Official source · statute text retrieved 2026-09-21
“...and unless within 2 years from the date of filing a claim for lien an action is brought and summons and complaint filed.”
If the date is missed (the statute's own terms). The statute states no action to enforce the lien "shall be maintained" without a timely-filed suit within this period, chained from the same sentence establishing the filing deadline.
Also stated next to this deadline.
Approximated as 730 calendar days (2 years), the same approximation style used throughout this app.
§§ 779.08 and 779.09, sometimes cited for this deadline, do not actually set one - § 779.08 is a bond/release-of-lien mechanism, and § 779.09 is pure foreclosure procedure (incorporating Chapter 846). Confirmed by reading both directly.
Weekend and holiday rollover
NoticeGuard does not model a weekend or holiday extension for Wisconsin. The dates above are the plain count from the date you enter. Check whether a Saturday, Sunday or holiday changes your date.
What this rule set does not cover
The 30-day pre-filing "notice of intent to file a lien claim" (§ 779.06(2)) is NOT modeled - it counts backward from the claimant's own chosen lien-filing date ("at least 30 days before timely filing"), the same category of backward-counted gap as Colorado's, Pennsylvania's, and Missouri's own skipped pre-filing notices. Required of every claimant regardless of role or whether a § 779.02 notice was also given.
The prime contractor's notice rule is modeled only for the case where the project is wholly residential with 4 or fewer family living units (§ 779.02(1)(c)'s own trigger for the notice requirement, and therefore for the § 779.02(2)(c) forfeiture risk) - on any nonresidential or larger-than-4-unit residential project, no notice is required of the prime contractor at all, and this app correctly shows nothing for that role in that case.
The narrow fallback that can save a prime contractor who missed its own notice (paying every subcontractor/supplier/service provider in full within the § 779.06 windows, and either none of them files a lien or all fully waive lien rights under § 779.05) is not modeled - a payment/waiver-status condition this app does not track.
The consequence of a subcontractor/supplier missing its own 60-day notice - losing lien rights only for work furnished before the owner actually receives a late notice, not everything (§ 779.02(3)) - is stated in this rule's own consequence text but the "after a late notice" partial-preservation logic itself is not separately computed.
Weekend/holiday rollover is NOT modeled - deliberately, not by oversight. Wis. Stat. § 990.001(4) is a general rule of statutory construction (displaced only where inconsistent with "manifest legislative intent"), and Chapter 779 itself has no rollover language of its own, but no Wisconsin case confirming § 990.001(4)'s application to Chapter 779 deadlines specifically was found. The same honest gap as most other states in this app.
Only §§ 779.02, 779.05 (referenced), 779.06, 779.08, and 779.09 have been read (779.08 and 779.09 only to confirm they are not deadline-bearing sections - 779.08 is a bond/release-of-lien mechanism, 779.09 is pure foreclosure procedure). The rest of Subchapter I is not incorporated.
This app generates the claim for lien from § 779.06(3)'s required content (no prescribed exact form; signed by the claimant or attorney, and confirmed the claim "need not be verified" - no oath required, unlike most other states' central lien documents). § 779.02(2)(a)-(b)'s near-verbatim prescribed notice language, for the prime contractor's and subcontractor's/supplier's notices to owner, is a different document and not yet templated.
NoticeGuard is an app that turns a job's dates into a countdown for each statutory step, shows the statute text each date was read from, exports a calendar file (.ics) and sends reminders 14, 7 and 1 day before each deadline. It tracks and reminds; it does not file anything for you.