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 you in the systems, the plans. And it's all very smooth running. I chose Stroud Homes because they're all about quality. And that's something I really believe in. … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Scott & Brooke (Young & Goulburn)
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. And within the last six or seven years, we've been doing that. But we just needed more. So we, yeah, started looking around at different franchise options. We've looked at a heap … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Matt (Northern Rivers, NSW)
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 positive experience into my own company. I just got to a point that I felt that I had to do it myself. It's a bit similar to when you're a teenager wanting to move out … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: VJ (Canberra, ACT)
VJ Tran: I started off working for my dad painting houses up in North Sydney. I fell in love with the designs and the building and decided to pursue the building career and it's now been, you know, 15 years roughly so yeah. I had started off working as an estimator through to administrator, site manager, up to project manager doing both private commercial contracts from residential to commercial. I was looking into systems and procedures and structure. I enjoyed working as a project … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Travis (Wollongong, NSW)
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 guys trades and apprentices and moved on into some head teaching. And after that I looked into going back to building. When I was looking to leave TAFE, I was looking … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Jason (Brisbane West, QLD)
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 of different builders. Perhaps at the time at the peak we were doing roughly 100 houses per year. I eventually jumped on board with Stroud Homes as a carpenter, as a subcontract carpenter and … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Thomas (Brisbane South Acreage, QLD)
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 contracts administrator. I got promoted to an estimator, then the operations manager there, which I've been doing running the office for about three years. So after working there for five … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Yarren (Coffs Harbour, NSW)
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 more high-end one-off sort of architect builds and jobs like that, that we used to fit in in between the film industry work. And I've always had my own business. Sometimes I'd subcontract to other guys, … [Read more...]
Victorian Franchisee Testimonials
Adam: Started off as an apprentice carpenter when I was 15 years old. Andrew: I've been in construction for over 20 years. Brendan: I've been in the industry for almost 20 years. I'm a carpenter by trade. Joe: Been in the industry for 25 years as a chippie. Simon: Been in the industry for about 10 years doing estimating and contract admin and supervising. David: Initially started building a couple of homes myself. Adam: I did find myself working extremely … [Read more...]
Franchisee Testimonial: Brendan (Melbourne Outer North East, VIC)
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 started growing a business. And we realised the obstacles to get from where we were to where we wanted to be were too great to not have the backing of people who know what they're doing because … [Read more...]