Consumer Building Guide NSW-The Basics

By NSW Australia law, builders and tradespeople must give consumers a copy of the Consumer Building Guide before they enter into a contract for residential building work worth more than $5,000.

This is the form of consumer information approved by the Director-General for the purposes of the

Home Building Act 1989, section 7AA (contractor obligation), section 96 (2B)    (‘spec’ builder obligation) and section 96A (1A) (developer obligation).

The Home Building Act 1989 is the consumer protection law that regulates residential building work in NSW. Residential building work includes building or trade work on single dwellings, villas, houses and home units.

All builders and tradespeople must be licensed for the kind of residential building work they do where the value of the work (labour and materials, even if you are providing the materials) is over $1,000.

All specialist tradespeople doing electrical wiring, plumbing, draining, gasfitting, air-conditioning or refrigeration work must be licensed regardless of the value of the work and irrespective of whether the work is residential, commercial or industrial.

You should always confirm the licence details of any builder or tradesperson before using them to do work on your home. Go online to www.fairtrading.nsw.gov.au or call 13 32 20 to do a licence check. The licensing requirements also apply to builders and tradespeople carrying out work for owner-builders. A written contract must be used for residential building work.

If the contract price is more than $20,000 (including the cost of any materials supplied by the..contractor), the builder or tradesperson must give a certificate of home warranty insurance to the homeowner.

Reference-  NSW  Fair Trading viewed 15/2/12, image via google

Como Building P/L, Michael Como provides in SYDNEY, an NSW Building Regulations Consultancy service that comprises, Interpretation of NSW legislation relevant to the construction of Class 1 and 10; Issuing: Complying Development Certificates (CDC), Construction Certificates (CC) [after a local council has approved a development], Occupation certificates (OC), Compliance Certificates, NCC Building Code Australia Reports. Engagement for the certification work is on a contract basis.

Also, a pre-purchase property inspection or building inspection by Michael Como may empower you with knowledge about the condition of a property currently or before you buy it and help you avoid future problems and unexpected costs. However, this service can only be conducted if the insurer is on-side, and currently, they are not and as a result, we do not conduct it.

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