Payday Super for builders: paying super every payday from 1 July 2026
The quarterly super float is gone. From 1 July 2026 employers pay super with every pay run. What that means for a building business’s cash flow, payroll software and subcontractors who are really employees.
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Most builders who struggle are good builders with weak paperwork. This is the business side: contracts, pricing, cash flow, people and disputes.
Payday Super for builders: paying super every payday from 1 July 2026
The quarterly super float is gone. From 1 July 2026 employers pay super with every pay run. What that means for a building business’s cash flow, payroll software and subcontractors who are really employees.
10 min read
Trade shortages still entrenched: bricklayers and tilers hardest to find
The Housing Industry Association’s latest Trades Report shows shortages easing only slightly, trade prices up 5.1% in the first half of 2026, and regional WA and Queensland worst hit.
6 min read
Hiring your first employee in a building business
The first non-apprentice hire is the point where a building business stops being you and a ute. It changes your insurance, your record keeping, your supervision load and your cash flow before the new person has set foot on site.
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Setting up bookkeeping systems for a building company
Most builders do not have a bookkeeping problem, they have a structure problem. The accounts are tidy enough; the job costing underneath them does not tell you which job made money until it is too late to do anything about it.
13 min read
GST and BAS for building businesses: getting the mechanics right
GST on a building job is not one calculation at the end. It is a calculation attached to every progress claim, deposit, variation and retention release, and the BAS is where those calculations land. Get the timing wrong and you fund the ATO out of your own working capital.
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HBCF eligibility and premiums: how an insurer assesses a builder
Eligibility for the Home Building Compensation Fund is not a form you fill in once. It is an underwriting decision about your business, and it is reviewed against the work you are actually taking on.
11 min read
Which insurance cover a building business actually needs
Most builders carry insurance because a contract demands it, not because they have matched the cover to the work they actually do. This is the cover checklist to run against your business.
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Delays and extensions of time on NSW building contracts: running the notice and evidence process
Most delay claims are not lost on the merits. They are lost because the notice went in late, or went in without evidence that ties the delay to the critical path. Here is how to run the process so the claim survives scrutiny.
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Building a realistic construction programme for home jobs
Most small residential programmes fail not because the sequence is wrong but because there is no float in it. This is a method for sequencing home jobs and holding buffer where it actually protects the completion date.
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Avoiding building disputes in NSW before they start
Most building disputes are set up long before anyone raises their voice. The contract, the variation trail and the site records you keep in the first weeks decide how the argument ends.
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Handling a difficult client without losing the job: escalation and exit options
Every difficult client starts as a normal one. The job is won or lost in how you recognise escalation, use the contract, and choose between holding the job and exiting it cleanly.
12 min read
Neighbour access, damage and complaints on a residential site
Neighbour consent to access is a commercial risk you can close out before the excavator arrives. Here is how to document adjoining property, handle damage claims, and answer complaints without accepting liability you do not own.
13 min read