About
A referral service for Brisbane concrete cancer, built around one idea: a committee should be given a scope before it is given a price.
Concrete Cancer Brisbane is a lead referral service. We arrange inspections and quotes with independent remedial contractors and engineers working across Brisbane. We do not carry out the work ourselves, and any contractor we refer holds the QBCC licence the work requires.
Remedial concrete is unusually hard to buy well. The extent of the damage is invisible until the concrete is opened up, the person assessing it is very often the person who profits from the answer, and the buyer is usually a volunteer committee spending other owners' money. That combination produces quotes that cannot be compared and budgets that get overrun by variations.
A written scope prepared before quoting fixes most of that. It is not a complicated idea and it is not what usually happens.
A message and photographs of the worst area. For a body corporate, any earlier report or a sinking fund forecast helps us judge the stage.
With a QBCC-licensed remedial contractor, or an independent engineer where the question is structural.
Quantified work your committee can send to two or three contractors on identical terms. That document is yours.
No obligation to proceed and no obligation to use whoever inspected it.
We do not carry out the work. We do not publish reviews, testimonials or case studies, because we would have to collect them honestly before we could show them. We do not claim a licence number, an ABN or a number of years in business that belongs to somebody else. And we do not give legal advice about who pays — that is a question for your body corporate manager or a strata lawyer, and we say so on every page where it comes up.
Remedial concrete work in Queensland requires the appropriate QBCC licence, and structural work requires an engineer. Any contractor we refer holds what the work requires. If an inspection suggests the problem is structural, we will arrange an engineer rather than a contractor even though that is the slower route — see is it structural.
Most of the stock affected is the 1960s–80s walk-up belt and the bayside strip, where salt air reaches the steel faster.
Tell us what the concrete is doing. We will arrange an inspection and a written scope your committee can actually price.
