Restumping prices in Ipswich
Contractors quote restumping and house raising in Ipswich after a site visit, so this page publishes no job prices. It publishes what governments charge and require, each with its source and the date we read it: council's assessment fees from 1 July 2026, QBCC's A$3,300 licence threshold, the deposit caps and the warranty limit.
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Type the job's value and the rules that apply to it are highlighted. Each is the Queensland Building and Construction Commission's own line, with the page it comes from and the date it was read, and every rule is listed below whether or not you type anything.
| Rule | Applies when the job is valued at | Source |
|---|---|---|
| The contractor must hold a QBCC licence for building work valued over A$3,300. Ask to see it before you sign or hand over money.About restumping | over A$3,300 | QBCC, Who must hold a QBCC licence · read |
| Home warranty insurance is compulsory for residential construction work valued at more than A$3,300, counting materials, labour and GST.About restumping | over A$3,300 | QBCC, What is home warranty insurance · read |
| The contract must be written, dated and signed by both parties before work begins. The regulator says a contract is not required for work valued at less than A$3,300.About restumping | A$3,300 or more | QBCC, Contracts and agreement types · read |
| The maximum deposit is 20%.About restumping | A$3,300 or less | QBCC, Deposits and progress payments · read |
| The maximum deposit is 10% of the contract price.About restumping | more than A$3,300 and less than A$20,000 | Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991, schedule 1B section 33 · read Queensland Building and Construction Commission Regulation 2018 section 45 · read |
| The maximum deposit is 5% of the contract price.About restumping | A$20,000 or more | Queensland Building and Construction Commission Act 1991, schedule 1B section 33 · read Queensland Building and Construction Commission Regulation 2018 section 45 · read |
| The contract must include advice about your right to a cooling-off period. You can generally withdraw within five business days; withdrawing usually costs A$100 plus the contractor's reasonable out-of-pocket expenses.About restumping | over A$3,300 | QBCC, Cooling-off period · read QBCC, Cooling-off period · read |
| The cooling-off period starts only once you also hold a copy of the QBCC Consumer Building Guide.About restumping | A$20,000 or more | QBCC, Cooling-off period · read |
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This lists each source's own lines as read; it is not legal advice, and it sets no price. The value that counts is the value of the work, including materials, labour and GST.
What moves a contractor's price in Ipswich
Four things move a quote, and each has a local source. The ground: CSIRO says site classes run from A, most sand and rock sites, to E, extremely reactive, that the class generally comes from a geotechnical report, and that clay swells and shrinks with prolonged wet and dry spells; the Queensland Transport and Main Roads study of the Ipswich to Springfield corridor maps brown and grey uniform cracking clays among its soils. Flood: the Bremer River gauge at Ipswich sets major flood at 11.70 m and January 2011 reached 19.40 metres; Ipswich City Plan 2025 maps flood risk in Overlay OV12, and Queensland Development Code MP 3.5 applies to building work in a designated flood hazard area that has a declared defined flood level. Depth: under the Building Regulation 2021, a cut or fill no deeper than 1 m stays inside the self-assessable schedule, and a retaining wall does only if it has no surcharge loading, is no more than 1 m in total height and is no closer than 1.5 m to a building. Access: whether a machine reaches the back of the block, or the spoil leaves by hand, changes the method before it changes anything else.
Fees, licences and deposits set by government
Ipswich City Council's register of fees, effective 1 July 2026, lists the following amounts, all including GST, read on 25 September 2026. Lodging a building application costs A$265 electronically or A$327 in hard copy; where a private certifier is used, council charges A$131 to lodge electronically. Assessing underpinning or restumping costs A$660. A Class 1 building up to 350 m² including additions and alterations up to 150 m² costs A$1,455. A retaining wall or fence costs A$700 to assess, and each inspection A$346. A siting variation costs A$825, and a stormwater or easement application to build over or near infrastructure A$865. These apply where council is the certifier; a private certifier sets its own fee. QBCC requires a licence for building work valued over A$3,300. Home warranty insurance is compulsory above the same value, pays up to A$200,000 and lasts 6 years and 6 months. The maximum deposit is 10% of the contract price on work valued from $3,301 to $19,999, and 5% above $20,000 (QBCC, read 25 September 2026).
Costs and fees by service
- All structural services
- House Raising
- Re-levelling
- Sliding & Relocation
- Structural Steel
- Dig Outs & Excavation
- Screw Piers
- Retaining Walls
- Concrete Slabs
Each service page above sets out the government fees and rules that bear on that job. None states a contractor's price: that is set on site by the contractor who quotes.
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