Monday, April 18, 2011

Licenses

Recently in Australia there state Govts have been cracking down on building sites and demanding to see builders licences. This has caused an uproar among many builders and other contractors who have quoted and won work for which they don't have licences to do.

This has caused a lot of financial hardship to many subbies and it is all so unnecessary. Everyone knows what they are licensed to do and what they are not covered to do. When the building inspectors call in to your building site, there is no acceptable excuse for not having your building licence on you or for carrying out jobs that you are not licenced to do.

This is, has, cost some building contractors who have taken on flood damage work that they are not licenced to do. Apart from the financial hardship to the Tradies and their families, the inconvenience to the householder and the bad name it gets our industry for being fullk of shonky operators ~ PLEASE ~ just don't do it!

Have you checked your licences lately to make sure that they are all up to date and paid up? If not, now would be a very good time to do so before one of the Building Inspectors finds out for you.

Constructing profits in the building industry doesn't mean that you need to take on every thing. Just stick with what you are licensed to do and you will stay profitable.

 

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