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You won the job in October. Council answers in January. Who pays for the wait?
4 October 2026. Sources are listed at the foot of the page. Last checked at source: 4 October 2026 It is 4.40 on a Thursday afternoon in October. You are standing in a kitchen in Collaroy with a tape in one hand. The client has just said yes. Second storey. Two bedrooms and a bathroom…
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A roofer found someone else’s phone number on his own Google listing. Google sent him a template.
6 September 2026. Every quote below is from the platform’s own help centre. There is a particular kind of bad day that does not announce itself. Your gear is fine. Nobody has rung to complain. The van started. And somewhere on a screen you have not looked at in two years, a photograph is sitting…
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Your licence is only worth what a stranger can check in ten seconds.
6 September 2026. Every quote below is from the platform’s own help centre. Oneflare checked. Airtasker doesn’t. That’s the whole change, in one sentence. Airtasker isn’t hiding it. It’s published, plainly, on their support site. They tell homeowners to sight the licence, search the industry database, and check the person on site is the person…
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Your quotes didn’t dry up. They changed job.
2 September 2026. Every figure below is dated and sourced. Last verified at source: 2 September 2026. It’s Tuesday morning and the phone’s quieter than it was this time last year. Not dead. Quieter. The quotes you are sending are getting looked at, sat on, and compared against two others. Nobody’s saying no. Nobody’s saying…