Managing subcontractors on NSW residential sites: the day-to-day controls that keep a job moving
Contract terms set the frame, but a job is won or lost in how you run the trades each day. Sequencing, supervision, written direction and defect close-out are what stop a programme sliding.
11 min read
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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.
Managing subcontractors on NSW residential sites: the day-to-day controls that keep a job moving
Contract terms set the frame, but a job is won or lost in how you run the trades each day. Sequencing, supervision, written direction and defect close-out are what stop a programme sliding.
11 min read
Setting your margin: how residential builders price overhead recovery into every job
Margin is not a feeling you add at the end of a quote. It is a structure that recovers your overhead, absorbs risk and pays you for running the job — and it has to be built into every price you send.
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Supplier accounts and credit terms: buying materials without funding the job yourself
A trade account is not a favour from your supplier — it is a credit facility secured against you. Read the terms like one, and time your deliveries to the claim cycle.
13 min read
Provisional sums and prime cost items: pricing what the client has not chosen yet
The two allowances that cause most of the arguments at the end of a job. What each one is actually for, how to set them so the adjustment does not turn into a dispute, and how to explain the difference to a client before they pick the tapware.
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Quoting residential building jobs in NSW without losing money
Most quotes that lose money were not priced badly at the takeoff. They were priced without a deliberate margin, without a risk allowance, and without a written set of assumptions the client agreed to. Here is a repeatable process for residential work in NSW.
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Progress claims in NSW: preparing, serving and enforcing them under Security of Payment
A progress claim that misses a requirement of the Security of Payment Act is not a weak claim — it is not a claim at all. Here is how to prepare, serve and enforce one properly.
12 min read