About Demolition Bundaberg

What this site is

This site connects Bundaberg region home owners, landlords, builders and businesses with local demolition and asbestos removal contractors. When an enquiry comes in, it goes to a contractor who works in the area and holds the licences the job needs.

All work is carried out by appropriately licensed contractors.

Why the guides are here

A demolition is a few days of machine work surrounded by rules most people meet once: the building approval from a private certifier rather than the council, the demolition licence that comes from Workplace Health and Safety Queensland rather than QBCC, the asbestos licence that is separate again, the planning application that a timber house in a character area needs before it can go, the council's road reserve permit, and the tip fees and state levy that decide what the waste costs. Add the ground, which in this region runs from red volcanic loam to river clay within one town, and the question of what is left on the block when the machine leaves is not a small one.

The pages here put the approvals, the licences, the asbestos rules and the waste in one place, in plain words, with links to the sources on each page.

How the rule pages are written

• Everything is dated. Each page describing a rule says when it was written.
• The source is linked. Workplace Health and Safety Queensland for demolition and asbestos licensing and notifications. The Building Act 1975 and QBCC for approvals and the building work that follows. Bundaberg Regional Council for its planning scheme, fees, waste facilities and water and sewer disconnection. Ergon Energy for electricity removal. The Bureau of Meteorology for flood history. The legislation itself for the levy and the penalty unit.
• Where this site and the source differ, the source is right. Stated in the dated box on each rule page.
• Figures are quoted, not promised. Fees, thresholds and dates change. The pages say what the published figure was and point you at the body that sets it.
• Unverified things are said to be unverified. Where a fee or a rule could not be confirmed from a primary source, the page says to ask the certifier or the council rather than guessing.
• You are pointed at the right person. A demolition contractor is not the person to issue your approval, decide your planning application or certify your asbestos clearance.
• Nothing here is legal advice.

What you will not find here

• No testimonials or star ratings.
• No gallery of past jobs. Photographs are illustrative only and do not depict specific jobs.
• No promise about the asbestos. Whether the fibro on a house contains asbestos is decided by a sample, not a web page.
• No prices. Two houses the same size can be priced a long way apart. The cost guide explains what moves the number.

What to expect when you make contact

1. You give the suburb, what the building is and what it is made of, roughly when it was built, and a few photos.
2. The overlays on the property are checked from the address.
3. A contractor comes back to you with questions about access, asbestos and what you want left on the block, then a price range or a time to look.
4. A site walk, a written quote, the certifier's approval, the asbestos removal and clearance, the services abolished, then the machine, in that order.
5. If a builder's start date, a sale or an insurance claim is driving it, say so up front.

Suburbs covered

Bundaberg, Bundaberg East, Bundaberg South, Bundaberg West, North Bundaberg, Bundaberg Central, Bargara, Burnett Heads, Innes Park, Coral Cove, Elliott Heads, Kepnock, Avoca, Walkervale, Svensson Heights, Norville, Avenell Heights, Thabeban, Millbank, Branyan, Kalkie, Ashfield, Kensington, Gooburrum, Moore Park Beach, Gin Gin, Childers, Woodgate, Apple Tree Creek, Sharon, Oakwood and Qunaba, along with the farms and districts between them across the Bundaberg Regional Council area.