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WA Bathrooms - disgraceful
We would like to share our experience with you regarding WA Bathrooms (WAB) and our renovation, after going through the Building Commission (BC) and State Administrative Tribunal (SAT) of Western Australia (WA) process.
WAB claim on their website “For more than 25 years we’ve been renovating bathrooms in Perth, and you can be confident that we will provide professional service for many more”. If you go to the Australian Securities and Investment (ASIC) website and do a search, you will find WAB’s registration date is 27/03/2012.
26 July 2016...
Read more, WAB’s response to the Building Commission of WA, stating, “In 2012 when we first quoted the job we were new to the market and did not know the requirements with regards to construction work”. WAB is not a “registered builder” and cannot provide you with Home Indemnity Insurance (HII). So, if your quote is over $20,000, you will not be covered, because HII companies will not provide insurance to a builder that is not registered. WAB use Housing Industry Association (HIA) contracts and claim to be members. WA Bathrooms Pty Ltd is not a member of HIA. WAB claimed to be so clean while they are at your residence you wouldn’t even know WAB where there. Now, if you like your house left covered in dust every night, so thick you can see track marks after walking on it, then you have come to the right company, and we are talking about areas of your house that were not part of the renovation. We signed a HIA contract with WAB under their legal Australian Business Number (ABN), but we were billed using another company’s ABN, which belongs to WA Bathrooms and Tiling. In March 2017, from the SAT Directions Hearing transcript, an email from WAB declared “we’re broke, we have no money.” WAB is still trading today, even though they are self-declared insolvent. In February 2018, the SAT ruled in SAT CC 2159/2017, ordering WAB to pay us $10736.36, the amount awarded to us is to rectify WAB’s poor workmanship and failure to meet the Building Code of Australia (BCA). The WAB director recently sent us an email stating, “The company is not in a financial position to pay the amount that is due today unfortunately.” Approximately two weeks later, WAB had a stand at the Perth Home Show 2018, costing at least $10000 and offering someone to win $10000 off their bathroom renovation – yet, they are not in a financial position to pay the money they owe us. So, all we can say is - think very carefully before entering into a contract with this company. Do your homework, look-up online how often WAB and WA Bathrooms and Tiling have appeared in cases before the BC and SAT.
Avoid At All Costs
It's literally taken me a month to be able to write a review for what was such a terrible experience with this company. We started our renovations in Nov 2017. I specifically recall [name removed] (owner) laughing when I questioned whether the project (a bathroom roughly 3x4 m2) would take longer than 3.5 weeks. By March 2018 we have called off the project and found other tradies to finish at our own cost.
Here is an abbreviated list of our troubles:
- Bathroom took over 7 weeks to even be usable and us return home (5 days before Xmas) - du...
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