Changing pace on our podcast today, because recently I've had a front row seat to some very large protracted disputes, where the parties won't settle because one party is fighting for the principle of it.

In this episode I'm ripping the band aid off and getting real about why you're better off using commerical cost benefit principles to settle a dispute, rather than moral principles, or even the rights you have under the Contract. 

In recent weeks we have seen trade credit insurers pull cover on particular builders with 30 days notice. Many subcontractors are now wondering whether their trade credit insurance policy is pointless? 

In this episode I drill down into all of the factors you should consider before you give up your policy. 

Material price increases and rising building costs have been a major stress point for the industry for almost two years now. Here are three ways we are seeing subbies and builders get price increase clauses into their contracts.

This month we have been receiving daily calls about issues we usually only hear about once or twice a year. 

So that you can be ahead of the game, we are sharing these with you in this episode of the Tricks of Your Trade Podcast. 

One of the best profiling data you have available to you about your builder is your builder's payment schedule.

Use these tips to work out what is going on behind the scenes with the builder's cashflow, project profitability and staffing situations.

In an EPIC Subbies' Toolbox Members Spotlight interview, Kieran Scott from Fyre Pro Aus tells all about what its like to be a certifier one day, and a sub-subbie the next.

Dabbling in Contracts, the Building Code and tinnys of XXXX Gold behind the warehouse after work, it doesn't get more coal face than this. Kieran is quite literally playing with fire on the best of days.

Tune in to hear how Kieran found the sweet spot with contracting from the bottom and the top of the food chain.

In this candid interview, Brice talks about how he was so busy putting out fires and trying to win work that he neglected his admin, which ultimately led to him not being paid.

12 months on, Bryce reflects on how different business can be when you contract with confidence.

Anyone who has worked with me or even just followed me on socials will know that I frown and cuss a lot when people start talking about relationships being the be all and end all of their business.

I've always taken this on board, because I recognise that it is a genuine concern for business owners.

But deep down inside, I've always seen relationships as a blindfold of their own.

Until this week, when someone told me something that COMPLETELY changed the way that I look at relationships.

Listen to this episode to hear what it was.

The instability in the market in the construction industry at the moment is seeing builders scramble to lock Subbies in for yesterday's pricing. One of the ways Subcontractors are being hoodwinked is by having inadequate margin on variations. 

Listen to this episode and do the three small things at contract signing to avoid this happening to you.

It is absolutely possible for Aussie Subcontractors to pick up a 400 + page construction contract and read it with the same ease and understanding as you read drawings.

You just need to know how it is done.

In this Episode of the Tricks of Your Trade Podcast spill the beans on how to do it.