Is your Carpenter Licensed?
In licensing terms, carpentry means the cutting and placing timber, or timber materials, in construction work on site to erect framing and fix materials or assemblies used in construction work such as stairs, windows, doors, wallboards (excluding plaster boards which is dry plastering), floors, etc. It includes the erection of metal framing and the construction of formwork in preparation for concreting.
Works involved in the term carpentry include, but are not necessarily limited to:
- minor non-structural concreting associated with a dwelling where that concreting is accompanied to carpentry work
- concreting for footings/structural support contributing to outdoor construction (eg. pergolas, timber decks, timber and metal fencing and the like) [does not include concrete paths, slabs etc which are works considered to fall within the category of general concreting and require the holding of that category]
- exterior wall cladding (excluding brick or masonry)
- internal timber cladding of walls and ceilings
- work involved in the category of flooring
- non-habitable outdoor shelters/structures (excluding brick/masonry) such as pergolas, gazebos and the like (does not include garages, sheds or carports which are building work categories)
- skylights
- awnings
- timber retaining walls not requiring approval under the Local Government Act 1993 (retaining walls requiring such approval are considered to be structural landscaping for the purposes of the Home Building Act 1989
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