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Building A Legacy

When Jim Argent started his apprenticeship in carpentry in 1966, he had no inkling that he was starting a building legacy.

Successfully working as a builder for thirty years out of the beautiful Samford Valley region, he took on his eldest son, Les, as an apprentice, and later also his second son, Clyde. The three worked together in partnership before formally starting Argent Building Services Qld in 2018. What started as a three builders partnership has now grown into a small business with over ten employees.

Safety is Argent Building Services Qld’s priority, and that means not only safety measures on site, but keeping up with and implementing the various Australian Standards for Building Works. They are licenced with QBCC, and members with Master Builders Qld. Several building works licences, such as Waterproofing and Scaffolding, are also held by the team. Argent Building Services Qld confirm all our subcontractors are appropriately licenced before they begin work onsite.

The Argents have worked on a range of building projects over the years and have a wide and particular skill set that is rarely seen in young builders. They’ve worked on heritage houses, restoring them to their former glory (whilst including all the mod cons), on new builds, home extensions and sprawling decks through southeast Queensland. In recent years they’ve diversified into insurance works, helping families rebuild in what is a difficult and sometimes confronting time.

A current long-term project is the stage-by-stage transformation of a 1970’s built home in Samford Valley into a modern masterpiece.The family have a vision of modern elegance that suits the surrounds and allows for both cosy family life and impressive entertaining. Argent Building Services Qld began the project with the construction of an outside pool deck that adds a striking entertainment space to the side of the pool, whilst overlooking the property’s idyllic paddocks.

A structural change to the home was next, with the family wanting to open up the living and dining rooms and kitchen to take advantage of the incredible cathedral ceilings and make better use of the space. This required an alteration to their roof structure, where extra beams were added so the internal walls could be removed. The most recent completion was the redesign and renovation of the bathroom. This included the removal and movement of windows in the brickwork, and again changing internal walls. The stand-alone bath is located under the newly placed, extended window, so the view of the rolling hills is enjoyed by the bather.

Everyone at Argent Building Services Qld is excited to see what all of our clients envision for their homes, and help them make it a reality.

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