Brightline Electrical Demo

Closes: Thursday 2pm, through the builder's tender portal
Ready for you: Takeoff from the drawings, priced against your rates and supplier price list. Three items flagged where the drawings and the spec disagree.
Your record with Northpoint: Won 1 of the last 6 tenders.
Your call: The three flagged items, your margin, and whether this one is worth pricing at all.

Due: Friday
Ready for you: Priced from the last townhouse job you did for Coastline, adjusted for six units. Site walk booked Wednesday.
Your record with Coastline: Won 3 of the last 4 quotes.
Your call: Anything you see on the site walk, and the final number.

Due: Next Tuesday
Ready for you: Fitting count from the reflected ceiling plan. Two fitting options priced side by side.
Your call: Which option to put forward.

Sent: 9 days ago, $42,800. No reply.
Ready for you: A short follow-up email in your words, asking where the job is up to.
Your call: Send it, change it, or ring them instead.

Sent: 12 days ago, $18,500. Opened twice, no reply.
Ready for you: A follow-up email draft.
Your call: Send it, change it, or let it go.

Sent: 15 days ago, $9,200. Second follow-up.
Ready for you: A last check-in email draft.
Your call: Send it or mark it lost.

Due: Friday. Miss it and payment slips to next month's cycle.
Ready for you: Claim drafted from the stage 2 schedule, $26,400, with the site photos from last week attached.
Your call: Check the percentages complete, then submit.

Amount: $1,650
Status: Done 3 weeks ago on a verbal OK from the site supervisor. Not signed.
Ready for you: Variation form filled in from the job notes, ready to send for signature.
Your call: Send it.

Amount: $3,900
Status: Sent 10 days ago. No signature.
Ready for you: A reminder to the project manager.
Your call: Send it or raise it at Thursday's site meeting.

Amount: $2,100
Status: Work starts Thursday. Not approved yet.
Your call: Whether to start before it is signed.

Amount: $750
Status: Done last week. Not sent.
Ready for you: Variation form drafted from Mel's job notes.
Your call: Send it.

Amount: $19,800, 45 days
History: Two reminders sent. Their accounts team said it was approved on the 14th.
Your call: Ring their accounts team, or raise it with the project manager on site.

Amount: $8,600, 38 days
History: One reminder sent.
Ready for you: Second reminder drafted.
Your call: Send it.

Amount: $2,800, 32 days
History: No reminder yet.
Ready for you: First reminder drafted.
Your call: Send it.

Closes: Thursday 2pm, through the builder's portal
Ready for you: Takeoff priced, addendum 2 added. Three items flagged.
Your call: The flagged items and the margin. Time is blocked Monday 4:30pm.

Where they are: Three with Harlow, two with Coastline. Forms and reminders are drafted, see Money.
Your call: Send them, and raise Harlow's at Thursday's site meeting.

Where it is: 45 days. Two reminders sent. Their accounts team said it was approved on the 14th.
Your call: Ring accounts, or raise it on site Thursday.

What for: Sign-off on the switchboard move ($3,900) and the data cabling ($2,100)
Since: 10 days
Next nudge: Thursday's site meeting

What for: A delivery date for the Banksia fit-off materials, once the order goes Wednesday
Needed by: Friday 7am

What for: The new certificate of currency, once public liability renews on 30 November
Who needs it: Harlow, Coastline and Northpoint

What for: Her electrical licence renewal. Reminder sent with the link.
Due: In 21 days

What's in it: One folder per job. Drawings, quote, variations, photos, test results.
On the real build: Opens the folder in a new tab.

What's in it: Labour rates, after-hours rates, margins, and the supplier prices quotes are built from.
On the real build: Opens the sheet. Quotes read from it, so a price change flows through.

What's in it: The login pages for each builder's tender portal.
On the real build: One link per builder.

What's in it: Orders, deliveries and account pricing at the wholesaler.
On the real build: Opens the supplier's trade login.

What's in it: Where the crew clock on, log hours and take job photos. Today's jobs reads from here.
On the real build: Opens whichever app the firm already uses.

What's in it: Invoices, bills and payments. Money reads from here.
On the real build: Opens Xero.

What's in it: Safe work method statements, toolbox talk notes and site inductions.
On the real build: Opens the safety folder.

What's in it: Every licence, ticket and policy with its expiry date. Compliance reads from here.
On the real build: Opens the register.

What Dan said: "Site super wants six more downlights in the foyer, same as the others. About a day with Jordan."
Photos: 2, foyer ceiling
Ready for you: Variation drafted from your rates, $1,280, with the photos attached.
Your call: Send it to Harlow for signature before the work starts.

What Mel logged: Wrong size hot water unit delivered to unit 5. Can't finish that rough-in until it's swapped.
Ready for you: Logged against the job with the photo and time, and an email to Coastline drafted, so it's on record before it holds you up.
Your call: Send the email.

Amount: $1,280
Status: Logged by Dan from site yesterday. Not sent.
Ready for you: Variation form with Dan's photos attached.
Your call: Send it before the work starts.

Labour: Quoted 320 hours. 224 used, about 45% of the work done. At this pace it finishes near 500 hours.
Where it went: 38 hours on the switchboard move and the data cabling. Both are unsigned variations.
Your call: Get those two signed, which covers most of the gap. Then go through the rest with Dan.

Labour: Quoted 410 hours. 213 used, about 55% of the work done.
Watch: The hot water unit delay at unit 5.

Result: Quoted at 22% margin, made 18%.
Where it went: Two return visits for damage by other trades, not charged.
Your call: Whether to price return visits into the next Northpoint quote.

Held: $4,100
Why you can claim it: Practical completion was 6 October. Your contract releases it at completion.
Ready for you: Claim letter drafted, quoting the contract clause and the completion date.
Your call: Send it.

Held: $2,100
Why you can claim it: The defects period ended 20 October with no defects raised.
Ready for you: Claim letter drafted.
Your call: Send it.

Held: $5,300 so far
When: Half at practical completion, expected March. It comes back here when it's due.

Held: $4,600 so far
When: At practical completion, expected December.

Held: $2,300
When: The defects period ends 14 March. It comes back here then.

Clocked on: 6:52am, from the job app on his phone
On the job: Meeting room fit-off, level 1. Booked till Thursday.
Materials: On site
Site contact: Harlow site supervisor

Clocked on: 6:48am
On the job: Site induction at 7am, then working with Dan.
Heads up: First day on this site. Induction form is on his phone.

Clocked on: 6:58am
On the job: Rough-in, units 5 and 6. Finishes tomorrow.
Materials: On site. Friday's fit-off materials not ordered yet.

The job: Power out to the site sheds. Northpoint asked for someone tonight.
Ready for you: Mel finishes closest, 15 minutes away, and is free after 3:30pm. Your after-hours rate is on the reply draft in Email.
Your call: Who goes, or whether it waits till morning.

What they asked: Can you start Wattle Rise a week earlier, on the 17th?
Ready for you: Your crew's bookings that week, and a reply drafted both ways.
Your call: Yes or no.

What they asked: Can the main switchboard sit on the east wall instead of the north?
Ready for you: The drawing marked up, and a reply that says it is a variation.
Your call: The price, and whether the reply goes as drafted.

What they asked: Power out to the site sheds at Ocean Dr. Can someone go tonight?
Ready for you: Who is closest and free after 4pm, and your after-hours rate.
Your call: Who goes, or whether it waits till morning.

What changed: Two extra EV chargers in the car park, and the closing time stays Thursday 2pm.
Ready for you: The chargers added to the takeoff and priced. Flagged on the quote too.
Your call: Check the charger price before Thursday.

What it says: Cable and switchgear up 4% from 1 December.
Ready for you: Your rates sheet with the new prices marked, and the two open quotes it affects.
Your call: Whether to update the quotes before they go out.

What it says: $14,200 paid Friday, less 5% retention.
Ready for you: Matched against the invoice. Retention of $710 logged to chase at practical completion.
Your call: Nothing. It is here so you know.

What they were: Supplier promos, newsletters and software notifications.
Your call: Open the folder if you want to look. Nothing in it needs you.

Due: Within the regulator's timeframe after testing, finished Friday
Ready for you: Form filled in from Mel's test results.
Your call: Check it and sign.

Renews: In 21 days
Ready for you: Reminder sent to Mel with the renewal link.
Your call: Nothing yet. It comes back here if it is not done in a fortnight.

Due: 14 November, all leads and tools on both vans
Your call: Which day, and who does it.

Why it matters: Builders ask for the new certificate of currency before you can go back on site.
Ready for you: Renewal notice from your broker, and a list of the three builders who need the new certificate.
Your call: Renew, then send the certificate.