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Post subject: How to check nasty demo company licences?
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 5:17 pm
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Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 5174
Just wondering if anyone knows which government department governs demolition company licences? Is it the Dept of Fair Trading?
I was looking on the Dept of Fair Trading website and I could only see ways to check building licences.
We had a terrible experience with our demolition company who caused significant damage to a Council storm water pipe on our property (story on my thread, don't want to repeat the horror here). Cut a long story short, we are trying to recover the repair money from the company and I am wondering which Dept governs them? (All sorts of problems with this company, including false asbestos dockets and false insurance documents).
Post subject: Re: How to check nasty demo company licences?
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 8:14 pm
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Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 87
SunshineT wrote:
Just wondering if anyone knows which government department governs demolition company licences? Is it the Dept of Fair Trading?
I was looking on the Dept of Fair Trading website and I could only see ways to check building licences.
We had a terrible experience with our demolition company who caused significant damage to a Council storm water pipe on our property (story on my thread, don't want to repeat the horror here). Cut a long story short, we are trying to recover the repair money from the company and I am wondering which Dept governs them? (All sorts of problems with this company, including false asbestos dockets and false insurance documents).
Post subject: Re: How to check nasty demo company licences?
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 8:19 pm
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Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 5174
thank you buildingbee!!! extremely useful. I would have looked like a right dill threatening to report them to the Dept Fair Trading, seeing now that Work Cover governs them... Thank you! How are you going with your building plans (or they were more still intentions, weren't they)?
Post subject: Re: How to check nasty demo company licences?
Posted: Apr 25, 2012 8:31 pm
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Joined: 20 Jun 2011 Posts: 87
SunshineT wrote:
thank you buildingbee!!! extremely useful. I would have looked like a right dill threatening to report them to the Dept Fair Trading, seeing now that Work Cover governs them... Thank you! How are you going with your building plans (or they were more still intentions, weren't they)?
Haha - I think most of us would have assumed the Department of Fair Trading - I learnt something as well
Building plans are going very slowly - we are dawdling a bit ... so many decisions!
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