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Not too bad for a bathroom, plus doesn't Canberra have the highest wages in the country? Starting mine this weekend, everything already paid for including labour due some favours etc. Tapware was free, everything else at builders rates, tiler charging standard rate tiling for rectified tiling...

Excellent post and I know 100% what you are saying as I too am a registered builder who started as a bricklayer. Hiring a bad tradesperson leaves one person to blame, and it isn't the tradesperson.

It is everyone's fault for hiring them. If you are having to use a trade that you cannot 100% trust, just stop, and get someone else to organise it for you. Hiring poor trades is no ones fault but yourselves. I am a registered builder and manager for a luxury builder. If I attempt to bring in...

There are poor workers in every industry. The problem with building is people from another industry step in and presume they know best if they are white collar or tertiary educated, and get their panties in a knot when it isn't what they expected. An elitist view of sorts. It is entirely...

I well and truly now stand by my statement of a lack of understanding of the building industry.

If you have been building for 30 years, surely you have other plasterers? I understand people get annoyed, but if you book in everyone one after the other on 100% set dates, you are destined for failure or frustration. . Book in the first two trades, give the remaining trades a date gap of...

Welcome to building.

Pro-tip - If you have used a lot of trades in your time and still find there are no good ones that meet your expectations, the issue is probably not the trade, and rather a lack of understanding about the construction industry.

Don't bother cold calling or using trades that advertise, good tradesmen are never out of work and do not need to rely on finding work, it finds them. Drive around new housing estates or residential construction sites, find trades who have presentable vehicles and tools (a sign of pride and...