Owner Builder Video Series. Ep 2. Permits & the Owner Builder Course!

Course? I thought you were in Victoria... is a course now required here too?

No need for a course here in Vic Just a form and about $80 a few months ago.

Originally Posted by joynz

No need for a course here in Vic Just a form and about $80 a few months ago.

OK .. vid says he's in NSW ... but profile says Elsternwick (maybe there is also an Elsterwick in NSW).

Victorian trying to build in NSW perhaps.

Notice how there is absolutely nothing at all in the OB course about actually doing the building work. The powers that be assume that OB's are just going to be " project managers" and that is all. Probably explains why most OB projects are rubbish.

Fortunatley in QLD, as a licenced carpenter I'm exempt from doing the course and rightly so as my licence covers me to build an entire house on stumps bar plumbing and electrical. Just pay the $345 and crack on. A joke but it lets me do things that are too tricky for a carpenter to do, like make a phone call to organise a plumber or make a phone call to tell the plasterer I'm ready for him. For these are tasks only a builder can do.

Hi guys. I should update my profile. I used to live in Elsternwick but now in NSW. I have to say that initially l thought the Owner Builder Course was a pain in the bum but it actually does alert you to administrative issues that you may not know about. Cheers