Check us before you call us
Our licence, our ABN, our insurance and the houses we have finished — all on one page. Plus how to run the same checks on any builder you are thinking about, including the ones you are comparing us to.
Our licence, our ABN, our insurance and the houses we have finished — all on one page. Plus how to run the same checks on any builder you are thinking about, including the ones you are comparing us to.
Plenty of people in Sydney have watched that trust go badly. Builders have gone under mid-job and left families with a slab, a fence and a fight. If you are nervous about who you sign with, that is a reasonable way to feel, and no amount of nice photography on a website should settle it.
So we are not going to ask you to take our word for anything. Everything below can be checked by you, in a few minutes, using government registers we do not control. We have put our own numbers next to each check so you can start with us and then go and do the same to everyone else on your list.
If a builder makes this hard, that is your answer.
Held for residential building work in New South Wales. Check it yourself on the NSW Government licence check.
Ahsan started on the tools as a carpenter, then supervised custom homes before running his own. The full story is on our about page.
Bachelor of Engineering, builder and carpentry licensed. The same person who quotes your job is on your site during it.
A licence number on a website is not proof of much on its own. Search it, confirm it is current rather than expired or suspended, and check the class of work it covers. Then compare the name on the licence to the name on your contract. If the contract is with a company but the licence sits under a different entity, ask why before you go further.
Ours NSW Builder Licence 454663C, and the contract you sign is with Auzzy Projects, ABN 85 668 175 719.For residential work over $20,000 in New South Wales, Home Building Compensation cover has to be taken out in your name, and the certificate given to you, before work starts and before a deposit is paid. That cover is what stands behind the job if the builder cannot finish it. The order matters: certificate first, then money.
Ours We take out the cover for your job and send you the certificate before we ask for anything. If we ever have it the wrong way around, say no.Progress payments should follow work that has actually been done. A builder who wants a large slice up front, well ahead of the build, may be using your money to finish somebody else's job. That is the pattern that turns into half-built houses. Read the payment schedule before you read anything else in the contract.
Ours Staged payments tied to completed stages, written into the contract before you sign. Our process page sets out the stages.Finished photos are the easy part. Ask for the address of a job in progress and the number of the person who owns it. A builder with nothing to hide will connect you. Ask that client one question: when something went wrong, what happened next? Every build has a problem. What matters is what the builder did about it.
Ours Ask us on the call and we will give you a current client to ring. Our finished work is below, with the street addresses.A cheap quote is often a thin one. If the inclusions are vague, the gap gets filled later with variations, and the price you were sold is not the price you pay. Compare what is actually specified, not the total at the bottom, and ask what is excluded.
Ours Itemised scope with inclusions written out. Rough numbers first if you want them: our build cost calculator gives you a range in about two minutes.These are ours, with the street they are on. Go and look at them from the footpath. Photos can be bought; addresses cannot.
Search the licence number on the NSW Government licence check. It shows whether the licence is current, what class of work it covers, and the name it is held under. Make sure the name on the licence matches the name on your contract. Ours is NSW Builder Licence 454663C.
For residential work over $20,000 in NSW, Home Building Compensation cover has to be in place and the certificate given to you before work starts and before you pay a deposit. A builder who asks for a deposit before handing you that certificate is doing it in the wrong order.
Look up the ABN to confirm the company is active and how long it has been registered, ask who else they are building for right now and call those clients, and ask how progress payments are structured. A builder who wants a large amount up front, well ahead of the work, is asking you to fund their cash flow.
Yes. Ask on the call and we will put you in touch with a current client rather than a hand-picked review. We would rather you heard how we handled a problem than how good the kitchen looks.
Photographs of your site every week, from the same builder and the same crew, until handover. You should not have to drive past your own job to find out what happened this week. Our process page walks through each stage.
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