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We tested how many questions and form fields it takes to buy tradies insurance online with Australia's major providers. The results ranged from 13 steps to 33. Here's the data.

Handyman and general maintenance work covers a wide range of jobs - routine repairs and upkeep, minor installations, basic painting, and keeping buildings and grounds in order. A public liability insurance policy is designed to cover your business for third-party injury and property damage claims arising from your handyman and general maintenance work.

Carpentry covers a lot of ground - framing new builds, hanging doors, laying floors, building decks, running formwork for slab pours, ripping out rotten verandah timbers, fitting windows. The work spans residential and commercial, simple and structural, repairs and new builds. A public liability insurance policy is designed to cover your business for third-party injury and property damage claims arising from your carpentry work.

Gardening, lawn mowing and landscaping cover a wide spread of work - from solo lawn mowing rounds and garden maintenance crews through to landscape construction outfits building retaining walls, paving and pergolas. VIZ rolls the whole range into a single occupation. A public liability insurance policy is designed to cover your business for third-party injury and property damage claims arising from your gardening, lawn mowing and landscaping business activities.

A bricklayer’s public liability insurance covers your business for third-party injury and property damage claims that arise from your bricklaying work. VIZ covers bricklayers for the full scope of what a bricklayer is reasonably expected to be doing - laying bricks and blocks for walls, structural masonry, multi-storey residential, commercial builds, retaining walls, and more.

Shaquille O’Neal once said:

“Defense wins games. Offense wins championships.”

In business, insurance is the defence.

But when it’s set up properly, it becomes something more powerful - it gives you the confidence to play offence.

And that’s where growth happens.