Straight answers, before you spend a dollar.

We work out which builder licence class fits you, tell you what evidence the regulator will want, prepare the paperwork with you, and check the completed application before it goes in.

No, that part’s yours. Licence applications are personal, and the declarations in them have to come from you. The regulator holds you to what’s in that file, so your name goes on it.

What we do is get it ready. We put the whole application together, check it over, and make sure nothing’s missing. Then we walk you through the portal or the form, step by step.

Queensland and New South Wales. QBCC in Queensland, NSW Fair Trading and the Building Commission in New South Wales.

If you need a licence somewhere else, we’ll tell you on the first call rather than take the work.

Book the free call. Ten minutes, no cost, no obligation. Bring a rough idea of your qualifications, how long you’ve been running work, and which state you want to be licensed in.

You’ll come off that call knowing which class to aim for, what’s missing from your file, and whether it’s worth starting now or in six months.

Queensland and New South Wales each have their own rules, but they’re asking for the same four things:

• A qualification — a relevant building qualification, or something the regulator recognises as equivalent
• Experience on site — documented, and at the level of the licence you’re going for
• Financial capacity — proof you can run a business. In Queensland that means reports certified by a qualified accountant
• Who you are — ID, plus a fit-and-proper or character check

The specifics are where it gets fiddly. How many years, which qualification counts, what the regulator will accept as supervised experience — all of that shifts depending on the licence class, and both regulators change it from time to time.

That’s why we don’t put numbers here. We’d rather confirm what actually applies to you on the call than have you plan around a figure that’s gone stale.

About an hour all up.

Here’s where it goes:

• The eligibility call, which runs around ten minutes
• One email with your qualifications and a rough list of jobs you’ve done
• A few referee names
• A read-through of the finished file before you submit it

That’s it. The chasing, the formatting, the structuring against the regulator’s schedule — that’s our end.

$1,950 per application.

Other companies charge $4,000 to $5,000 for the same work. We charge a fraction of that because getting your licence shouldn’t mean getting ripped off by someone trying to make a profit off your hard work.

No. Application fees or assessment costs are paid by you straight to the relevant body. We don’t handle your money or mark those costs up.

Two to three months, start to finish, in most cases.

Getting your application prepared and checked takes around four weeks — and most of that is waiting on referees and accountants, not on us.

After that it’s the regulator’s assessment queue. That varies by licence class and by how busy they are, and nobody outside that office can put a firm date on it.