Video Transcript: James: What was life like before you joined Stroud? Trevor: Well, before I joined Stroud, building is enjoyable but hard. So, just knowing where you are in the build financially, having no systems and things like that, it just made it really hard, to the point where it made it unenjoyable, wasn’t […]

 Tom: I am Tom Sachs from Stroud Homes Lockyer Valley. I’ve got quite a broad experience in the construction industry, I’ve done commercial sites, car parks, but my love is the residential construction and that’s what brought me through to Stroud Homes. I chose a franchise because there’s a lot already set up for […]

   Scott: Yeah. So I left school at 15, started my apprenticeship. And from there, I’ve subcontracted. From 20 year old, I was fully qualified. Spent the next sort of 5, 10 years subcontracting, working all over New South Wales. Then decided to get my builder’s license, and, you know, started doing it myself. […]

  Matt Lowson: Previous to starting with Stroud, my main experience was coming from a tradesman, then onto supervision, then onto management through some of the major companies, the major building companies in Southeast Queensland. And that experience taught me a lot in what not to do and what to do as well, bringing that […]

  Travis Butler: After I completed my apprenticeship and my builders course I went out and did some renovations and extensions with a builder. And then I was branching out into building my own new homes. I got an opportunity to start doing some TAFE teaching, which I took, thoroughly enjoyed working with some younger […]

  Jason Till: So I started in the construction industry as an apprentice carpenter, from there I did my time and got all the qualifications to become a licensed carpenter, from there I went out on my own, started a carpentry business. So once I got my carpentry team together I worked for a number […]

  Thomas Eldridge: I had a master’s in civil engineering in the States at the University of Colorado and then moved over to Australia with my wife. And here we moved up to Queensland, started with nothing, and I ended up getting a job with James Stroud at the original franchise, in Jimboomba, as a […]

  Video Transcript Yarren: I left school, I did my apprenticeship, I started out doing a little maintenance role, and then ended up working in Sydney at Fox Studio. A few other places doing a lot of film set work. I’ve had a fair bit of experience with some commercial stuff and a lot of […]

  Brendan Moylan: I’ve been in the industry for almost 20 years. I’m a carpenter by trade. I’ve been a site manager for 10 years. And for the last three, I’ve been doing renovations and extensions, semi on the tools. I engaged a partner, who I’d worked with as a site manager. And together, we […]

  Brad: Hi, my name is Brad. I’m one of the owners of Stroud Homes Ballarat. And I’ve been in the industry for about 16 years now. Simon: I’ve been in the industry for about 10 years doing estimating, contract admin, and supervising. Brad: I’ve worked all around Victoria, but of late, we’ve been concentrating […]