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• Building and Energy's Top 10 tips: Choosing a builder and signing a home building contract 
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Helpful videos for home owners

• Building your new home 
• Translated captions – Building your new home
• Building disputes resolution service
• Translated captions – Building disputes resolution service
• Building supply chain delays

Other useful resources

Building your home 

• Dividing fences guide
• Site considerations
• Building approvals
• Helpful checks when choosing a building service provider
• A guide for those entering into a construction contract for building work
• Building your new home – a checklist
• Building contracts and progress payments
• Home Building Contracts Act
• Home indemnity insurance
• Balconies and decks
• Roof-mounted evaporative coolers
• WA Alterations and Additions Protocol

Dealing with delays

• Building a home in challenging times
• Guide on price increases to home building work contracts
• Can I lodge a building service complaint?
• Building complaint resolution
• What should I do if my building work is unfinished?

Electrical

• Having electrical work done?
• Powering your home for less
• Electric shocks – Fact sheet
• Safe use of electricity
• Handy guide to RCD safety switches
• Using electricity safely near water

Fire safety

• Fire safety in existing apartment buildings

Gas

• Having gasfitting work done?
• Using gas barbecues and patio heaters safely
• Using LP Gas safely

Bushfire safety

• Building in bush fire prone areas
• Building for better protection in bushfire areas
• Transition for alterations and extensions in bush fire prone areas
• LP Gas cylinder safety in bush fire prone areas

Cyclone safety

• Cyclone safety around your home

Painting and decorating

• Painting and decorating

Pest control

• European House Borer
• Termites and your home

Plumbing

• Having plumbing work done?

Pools

• Thinking of installing a swimming pool or spa?
• Rules for pools
• Rules for portable pools fact sheet
• Rules for Pools and Spas - a simple checklist for residents
• Swimming pools and spas: electrical bonding
• Building permits for private swimming pools and pool fences

Power poles and lines

• Guidelines for the safe management of private power poles and lines
• Private power poles and lines brochure
• Guidelines for the management of vegetation near power lines

Roofs and ceilings

• Roof coating – do you really need it?
• Changing your roof cover – Things you need to know
• Background information: A general inspection into sheet metal clad timber framed roof construction in WA
• Spontaneous ceiling collapse

Smoke alarms

• Smoke alarm laws

Always use a licensed plumber, gas fitter or electrician

To protect your health and safety, as well as ensuring your job is completed according to laws, always use an appropriately licensed person.

Search for a licensed plumber, gas fitter or electrician Click here to search 

Always use a registered builder, painter or building surveyor

The best way to protect your investment in a building service provider is to ensure they are registered with Building and Energy. Visit the registers for building services providers to check for current registration. 

Register of building service providers  Search for a registered building service provider 

Consumer Protection website Things to be aware of before hiring a tradesperson

Owner-builders

As an owner of land wanting to build or renovate your own home or a small commercial building with the intention of residing in or using the building, you can apply for approval from the Building Services Board to become an owner-builder. The page on owner-builders' responsibilities discusses who can owner-build and what it involves. Download the owner-builder application below.