The jobs
Property maintenance requests are the bundled, repeating jobs. Second-home owners at Whale Beach, Palm Beach and Avalon Beach post between-visit rounds: gutters, decks, pool, garden, a walk-through and a photo report. Vendors in Bellevue Hill, Mosman and Wahroonga post pre-sale presentation where the house wash, windows, gutters, garden tidy, deck and driveway all need doing in order before the photographer. Strata managers and committees for blocks in Bondi, Manly, Neutral Bay, Cremorne and Dee Why post facade washing, common window cleaning, car park and bin room pressure cleaning and annual gutter clearing. Much of it recurs.
This category suits tradies who can run a checklist across several skills or coordinate with others who do. We confirm identity and ABN, hold a public liability certificate with a limit strata managers accept, review comparable local work with references from owners or managers, and check any contractor licence you hold for items above the 5,000-dollar threshold. On the call we ask how you document a round, how you handle keys and codes, how you sequence a pre-sale list, how you get owners corporation approval before touching common property and how you apply wash water, height and asbestos rules on older blocks. Reliability over months matters more here than any single job.
Owners and managers expect a plan, a report and no surprises. For holiday homes that means a checklist agreed in writing, the same day each cycle, a short photo report and a clear line between what you fix on the spot and what you flag for approval. For pre-sale work it means hitting the photography date. For strata it means certificates of currency on file, quotes addressed to the owners corporation, residents warned before noisy work and common areas left spotless. People who manage property remember who made their life easier, and they bring the next building.
What we check for this trade
Frequently asked questions
No. Some tradies run complete rounds themselves; others take the cleaning or garden parts while we match sealing, deck or licensed trades separately. Tell us what you cover and what you would rather hand off. Licensed items such as electrical and plumbing always go to licensed trades.
Your quote is addressed to the owners corporation and usually goes through the strata manager or the committee. You provide your certificate of currency and any licence for the file, and start only after approval is recorded. Common property includes exteriors, external windows, shared driveways and car parks. An individual owner cannot usually authorise work on it.
If the owner chooses to give them to you, that arrangement is between you and the owner and should be in writing. TPS Trade Connect does not hold keys or codes. Many owners prefer lockboxes or gate codes that can be changed.
We ask owners and managers how it went after the first match and then periodically on recurring arrangements. Good reports help you; a missed round or an unreported problem is raised with you first. Repeated failures on a maintenance contract end a place in the network, because reliability is the whole point of this category.
