Are you a licensed tradie?
Government sources can tell a homeowner what the rule is. They cannot tell them what actually goes wrong on the job, what a good quote looks like for the work in front of them, or which corner is the one that gets cut. That is the part only somebody who does the work knows, and it is the part this site is missing.
Where this stands today
There are no verified contributors yet, and every one of the 193 answers here carries a TradieAnswers editorial byline because that is what it is. We are not going to pretend otherwise while we recruit. This site previously shipped six invented tradespeople with six invented licence numbers, all of which were deleted, and the content model now makes an unverifiable named contributor impossible to represent at all.
How verification works
- You apply below with your licence number and the state that issued it.
- Somebody searches that number on the state's public register and records what it shows: the class, the status, the expiry where one is published, and the date of the search.
- If the class does not cover the work you would be reviewing, we say so. A licensed electrician does not sign off plumbing advice here, and the build refuses to publish it if anyone tries.
- Once approved, your name appears with the trade, state, licence class and the date it was verified. The verification date is shown because a check with no date is not a check.
What a reviewer controls, and what they do not
You review for practical accuracy: whether this is how the work is really done, whether it matches what an inspector actually looks at, whether it is the mistake homeowners really make. That is genuinely valuable and it is not something a regulator’s website can supply.
What the site says about the law comes from the cited authority, and it does not change because a reviewer would prefer it said something else. Experts disagree; regulations do not become negotiable because of it. Where practical experience genuinely differs from person to person, we would rather publish that as experience, labelled as experience, than launder it into a rule.
If a page changes materially after you review it, your name comes off it automatically until you look again. That is a mechanism in the code rather than a promise: the review records a fingerprint of the text you read, and the badge only renders while it still matches.
What you get, stated plainly
- Attribution on pages homeowners read before they hire anyone, with your trade, state and verified licence shown next to your name.
- A profile page recording what you have reviewed.
- A verified credential badge that nobody can buy, which is the only reason it is worth anything.
And what you do not get:
- Leads. This site generates none and sells none.
- A listing. No business is listed, ranked or advertised here, and contributing does not create one.
- Favourable coverage. Nothing an answer says changes because a contributor's business would prefer it.
- A way to pay for any of the above. Expert status depends on a verified credential and relevance, and on nothing else.
Apply
This goes to our inbox and nowhere else. There is no account, no database and no stored application record. Your licence number is used to search a public register and is not published: what appears, if you are approved and have agreed to it, is your licence class and the date it was checked.
What happens to what you send is set out in our privacy policy, and the editorial rules you would be working under are on how we source this.