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A variation gets agreed on site on a Tuesday. The customer wants a powerpoint moved and the alfresco opening widened. Th...
06/08/2026

A variation gets agreed on site on a Tuesday. The customer wants a powerpoint moved and the alfresco opening widened. The supervisor says no worries, snaps a photo, gets on with the pour.

By the Friday claim run the number has drifted. The supervisor barely remembers what was agreed. The customer is sure they were quoted less.

The office prices it off a photo and a one-line text, and to keep things friendly the builder splits the difference. That gap comes straight out of margin. Do it eight times across a build and you've handed back real money for work you genuinely did.

The pricing was never wrong. The agreement just lived in a phone instead of on the contract. A variation you didn't write down is a discount you never agreed to give, and it's the moment a good customer quietly starts keeping score.

Undocumented goodwill is the most expensive thing on a job.

Go back through your last build and count the variations that only existed as a text or a chat on the slab. That number is what being easygoing cost you.

There's a job on every builder's books right now that officially hasn't started. No slab, nothing on site, not even on t...
04/08/2026

There's a job on every builder's books right now that officially hasn't started. No slab, nothing on site, not even on the live board. But it's been late for weeks.

Engineering hasn't come back. The colour selection changed twice, so the kitchen needs re-costing. Finance hasn't cleared. The plans went to the draftie three times before anyone signed off.

The supervisor hasn't touched it, so nobody counts it as slow. On paper the build time still looks healthy, because most builders only start the count when the first truck turns up.

That's the delay you can't see, and the one quietly bleeding margin. The money is committed, and someone in the office has picked that job up and put it down a dozen times without a day of progress on the ground.

Detached homes are now 35.8% slower to build than a decade ago. A fair chunk of that happens before anyone lays a brick.

So look at your last ten starts. Count the days from deposit to first day on site, not site start to handover. If that number surprises you, you've been watching the wrong half of the build.

(Master Builders Australia analysis of ABS data)

Friday afternoon. You're sitting at the kitchen table with a laptop, a coffee, and a stack of invoices. Progress claims ...
02/08/2026

Friday afternoon. You're sitting at the kitchen table with a laptop, a coffee, and a stack of invoices. Progress claims that should take minutes are taking hours because you're cross-referencing schedules, chasing approvals, and fixing data that doesn't match.

Your weekend isn't a bonus admin shift. But right now, that's exactly what it is.

ClickHome automates progress claims against your build schedule. Claims are generated as stages complete, not when someone remembers to do them.

✔️ Auto-generated claims tied to job stages
✔️ Real-time cost tracking per job
✔️ One click from claim to invoice

Get your weekends back.

Say a job costs you $420,000 to build, once every trade, supplier and provisional sum is in.You want 18%, so you add 18%...
31/07/2026

Say a job costs you $420,000 to build, once every trade, supplier and provisional sum is in.

You want 18%, so you add 18% and quote $495,600.

Feels like 18% in your pocket?

It isn't. Your gross profit is $75,600. Divide that by the $495,600 the customer pays and your margin is 15.3%.

The markup was 18. The margin is 15. Same job, same quote, and only one of those numbers is real. That gap is about $13,600 you thought you had and never did. On one job.

Now watch one slip. Scaffolding is on site an extra 4 weeks. The customer still pays the agreed price, so you wear it. Gross drops and your margin falls. One line moved, and it took a chunk of the profit off the build.

A healthy-looking markup is a thinner margin than most builders carry in their head, and it doesn't take much to eat what's left.

So pull up your last quote tonight. Work out the real margin: gross profit divided by the sell price, never by the cost. If those two numbers sit further apart than you thought, that gap is where one blown line comes from.

The average home in Australia now takes 11.5 months to build, and build times are up 34% in five years.*Most builders st...
28/07/2026

The average home in Australia now takes 11.5 months to build, and build times are up 34% in five years.*

Most builders still read the schedule like a diary.

Every extra week a job stays open, the costs keep ticking, and your best supervisor is stretched across one more live job than the plan allowed. None of it shows up on the slab. It surfaces months later, when the job closes and the margin is thinner than the quote promised.

A week saved on site is not a scheduling win. It is money you keep.

Pull up your three slowest jobs. If you can say how far behind each one is but not what the delay has cost you, you are still reading the schedule as a diary.

(*Master Builders Australia analysis of ABS data, October 2025.)

It is 9pm. Dan is at the kitchen table, typing up today's site schedule from memory.He runs nine builds across Perth's n...
23/07/2026

It is 9pm. Dan is at the kitchen table, typing up today's site schedule from memory.

He runs nine builds across Perth's northern corridor. A slab pour first thing, a frame inspection across town by lunch, a customer waiting at a third site to do a PCI. There was never a quiet ten minutes to write anything down on site, so it waits until the kids are asleep.

The schedule isn't the hard part of his day. Typing it twice is.

Almost nothing on the screen is new. The instruction he gave the bricklayer this morning is being written a second time. The photo he sent the office at smoko is being described again in words nobody will match back to it. His whole day was captured once on site and again after dark, and the two versions will never be reconciled.

That is the real cost, and it is invisible. It shows up two years from now, when your best supervisor hands in his notice and takes everything that only lived in his head.

Builders have quietly decided this is just the job. We are convinced it is NOT.

If your best supervisor is writing up his day at the kitchen table tonight, ask him one thing tomorrow. How much of what he typed had he already recorded once, earlier that day?

The prestart was meant to take 4 hours. This one ran 2 hours over.Plans on the table, selections sheet beside them, and ...
21/07/2026

The prestart was meant to take 4 hours. This one ran 2 hours over.

Plans on the table, selections sheet beside them, and the kitchen didn't match. The plan had the window one place, the selection assumed another, and the splashback the customer loved only worked one way.

Nobody could say which version was current. The coordinator had a printout, drafting had emailed a newer set that never reached the folder, and the customer had her own version on her phone from six weeks back.

So the meeting stopped being about finishes and became a debate about which piece of paper to trust. She walked in excited about her house and left wondering what else wasn't lined up.

Nothing was wrong with the build. The same decision had just been recorded twice and reconciled nowhere. That is what a long prestart usually is.

Before your next prestart, pull the plan and the selection sheet and check they tell the same story. If it takes more than five minutes, your customer is about to find the gaps for you.

The claim run eats your whole Friday?A variation gets agreed right there beside the ute on a Tuesday. The work goes ahea...
20/07/2026

The claim run eats your whole Friday?

A variation gets agreed right there beside the ute on a Tuesday. The work goes ahead and everyone forgets to write the number down. By the time the claim run comes around, three people remember three different figures, and the one that lands on the invoice is usually the smallest.

That is a pure loss of margin!

Claims management is now available in ClickHome. Every stage on the contract sits on one screen, with what has been raised, what is due, what has been paid, and the cash position for that job right beside it.

When a claim is ready, one step raises it, sets the invoice number, generates the invoice and sends it to your customer and their finance company. You are not copying figures between systems and nothing gets missed.

Progress claims go out on time, for the amount you actually agreed to.

https://release.clickhome.com.au/claims-are-here-1LQLJK

Every claim. Raised, due, paid. One view.Most builders find out a progress claim is late when the customer asks where th...
07/07/2026

Every claim. Raised, due, paid. One view.

Most builders find out a progress claim is late when the customer asks where the invoice is. The status is sitting in someone's head, or buried in a job file, and the claim goes out after the fact instead of on time.

Claims in ClickHome27 puts the whole picture on one screen. Every stage on the contract, what has been raised, what is due and what has been paid, with the cash position for that job right beside it.

When a claim is ready, one step raises it, assigns the invoice number, generates the invoice and sends it to your customer and their finance company. No copying figures between systems. Nobody gets missed.

Progress claims out on time, not after the fact.

30/06/2026

ClickHome27 is here.

For 22 years, ClickHome has run Australian residential builders, from a few homes a year to thousands. Today the platform takes its biggest step yet.

It is faster and clearer across the board, with a customer app that keeps homeowners in the loop, AI that flags problems early, an all-new field app for iPhone and Android, live job dashboards, HIA contracts in minutes, and job costing with live margin.

Take a look: https://ch27.clickhome.com.au

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