“Just get on with it, we’ll sort the paperwork.” Six months later it’s your word against theirs. Start the record the moment they open their mouth.
Get the free Variation Record templateA super pulls you aside at the site gate. Three sentences next to the ute, and your crew’s doing work that isn’t on any drawing. You price it when you get a minute. You submit it when the paperwork catches up. And somewhere near the end of the job it comes back — knocked back, half-paid, or “we never approved that”. The work was real. The direction was real. But the record doesn’t exist, so the version that wins is the one written by the bloke who owes you the money.
Most head contracts bar your claim if notice isn’t given within days of the direction — a window that opens whether you knew it or not. The template captures who directed the work, when, and how, the moment it happens.
Every day the builder sits on your submission is a day you can point at. Dated submissions, dated revisions, dated chasers — the sitting time stops being a feeling and becomes a fact.
One page: the direction, every dated exchange, the deadlines in your contract and whether both sides met them. Useful in a negotiation, decisive in an adjudication room.
The notice window in many head contracts. Miss it and the work can be free. When did your clock start?
Free. Works with a notebook or with our software. No card, no trial, no phone call.
