Why Better Builds exists
Construction is the most insolvency-affected industry in the country — external administrators lodged 2,361 initial reports for construction companies in 2024–25, more than any other industry (ASIC Insolvency Statistics, Series 3.1). And the single question a homeowner most needs answered — is this builder solvent — is the one they have no way to answer.
A licence can be perfectly current while a company is weeks from administration. The certificate on the wall tells you nothing about whether they can pay their framer on Friday. You can check a licence yourself, and almost nobody does, because almost nobody knows which register to search or what a suspended licence looks like on it.
That is the entire job we do. We check the licence with the state regulator, sight the insurance, re-check solvency on a schedule, and confirm a builder actually services the area before we put them in front of you. Then we publish the date of every check so you can see how fresh it is.
We are deliberately narrow. We are not a builder, not a project manager and not an inspector. We think a small service done properly is worth more than a broad one done vaguely.
Company details
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- Tidalwave Marketing Agency Pty Ltd
- ABN
- 58 684 852 640
- Contact
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We publish our own entity details for the same reason we ask builders for theirs.
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