Starting a Plumbing Business from Scratch | Rhys from Oceana Plumbing and Gas

In this episode, Kane sits down with Rhys, founder of Oceania Plumbing and Gas, for a straight-talking conversation about what it actually takes to build a trades business from the ground up.

Rhys started his business in 2019, living at home with mum and dad, just as Covid hit. Three months of uncertainty quickly turned into one of the busiest periods he’d ever seen, and from there he scaled to six vehicles and a growing team. He and Kane get into the real stuff: hiring tradies vs apprentices, keeping staff long term, building systems when everything is chaos, customer service, social media, managing vehicles and insurance, and what they both wish someone had told them when they started out.

If you run a trade business or you’re thinking about going out on your own, this one is packed with practical lessons from someone who’s been in the trenches and figured it out along the way.

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Getting the Phone to Ring When Work Dries Up

April hits, school holidays start, Easter rolls around, and for most trade businesses in Perth the work drops off fast. So what do you actually do about it?
Kane sits down with Steve from E-Maintain, an electrical business coming up on its two year mark, to talk about what getting consistent work actually looks like when you’re small, lean, and can’t afford to get it wrong. They cover the real cost of paid advertising versus community Facebook groups versus flyer drops, why your relationship with a property manager might be worth more than any Google ad, and the hiring mistake that slows most new trade businesses down before they even get started.
Two operators still in the thick of it, not coaches who left the tools a decade ago.

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About Stephen Leigh
Steve is the founder of E-Maintain, a Perth-based residential and commercial electrical business specialising in maintenance and split system installations. He brings a background spanning commercial construction, industrial, oil and gas, facilities management, and project management into how he runs and grows his business.

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