TradesConcreters

Grow a Concreting Business That Pays You ProperlyYou can pour a flawless slab and still end the year with nothing in the bank. That is a business problem.

This is for concreting business owners in Australia and New Zealand who are still on the shovel at 6am and doing quotes at 9pm. Everything here is about the business behind the pour: pricing, systems, crew, marketing and margin.

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The week this is about

Running A Concreting Business Looks Like This.

You price the job, then the concrete moves

You quoted the slab at last season's rate, then the batch plant lifted its price, the pump hire went up, and the job you fought to win now pays less than the labour standing in it. You find out weeks later, when the invoices land.

Every pour still needs you standing in it

Nobody else sets out the formwork, checks the steel and the cover, or calls the finish. Take a week off and the pours stop, so you do not take the week off. The business is a job with more paperwork attached.

The 5am weather call you make alone

Rain on the radar, six blokes rostered, a truck booked that cannot be moved for free, and a client who wants the driveway done before the weekend. You make the call at 5am, on your own, and you wear whatever it costs.

Another year of full diaries and thin margins, and the only things that grow are the hours you put in and the amount of the business that cannot run without you.

How we help

Seven Ways We Help Concreters.

Every one of these is a way concreting business owners get out from under the business and start running it properly. Start wherever it hurts most.

Training

Concreter Business Training

Structured training that turns what concreters know on the tools into a business that runs properly.

Coaching

Concreter Business Coaching

A coach who has run a trade business, in your corner, holding concreters to the plan.

Systems

Concreter Business Systems

The documented process that lets the work happen properly when concreters are not standing there.

The free app

Concreter Business App

Lessons, tools and a room full of other owners, free for concreters with an active ABN.

Marketing and leads

Concreter Business Marketing

How concreters get the phone ringing with the jobs worth having, not just the cheap ones.

Pricing and profit

Concreter Business Pricing

The number concreters should actually be charging, worked out properly rather than guessed.

Hiring and team

Concreter Business Hiring

How concreters build a crew that does it right without being watched.

Worth knowing

Two Things Every Concreter Running A Business Should Know.

In Queensland a QBCC concreting licence is needed once work exceeds $3,300, while in Western Australia no trade licence applies until the $20,000 builder registration threshold.
Source: Queensland Building and Construction Commission, and ABLIS building contractor registration (WA)
Since 1 September 2024, stronger crystalline silica rules apply to cutting, grinding and drilling concrete, and the exposure standard for respirable crystalline silica is 0.05 mg/m3.
Source: Safe Work Australia
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Questions

Concreters Ask Us These.

Do I need a licence to run a concreting business?
It depends where you work. Queensland requires a QBCC concreting licence above $3,300 and New South Wales a general concreting licence above $5,000, while Victoria pulls you into builder registration for footings and slabs over $10,000 and Western Australia starts at $20,000. In New Zealand there is no concreting licence, but residential foundation work is Restricted Building Work needing a Licensed Building Practitioner.
What do I have to pay a concreter I employ?
The Building and Construction General On-site Award MA000020 sets the legal minimum, with the classification level deciding the base rate and allowances for fares, travel, tools and multistorey work stacking on top. Apprentice rates are separate, and rates rise with the Fair Work annual wage review each 1 July. Our hiring training covers pricing that into your jobs.
How do I get off the tools without the pours going wrong?
You write down what only you know: the set out, the steel and cover check, the concrete order, the pour day sequence, the strip and the handover. Then you train a leading hand against it and let them run a job. That is systems and leadership work, which is what the Learning Hub and coaching are built to do.
Is business coaching worth it for a concreting business?
It is worth it when the thing holding you back is the business rather than the concrete: pricing that leaves nothing, a diary that depends on one builder, a crew you cannot leave alone. TSA has trained over 9,000 tradies and holds a 4.9 rating across 123 Google reviews. Book a complimentary coaching call and judge it yourself, with no obligation.

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