Melbourne builder Red Bluff Homes collapses into liquidation owing $1.9m, bricklayers owed $35k

A family of Aussie bricklayers has lost more than $100,000 as the builders they work for keep going bust, leaving them unpaid and out of pocket for all their backbreaking labour.

The melbourne family-run business is fuming as just on Friday, Red Bluff Homes went into liquidation.

Red Bluff’s collapse has left 21 projects at varying stages of completion in jeopardy. All up, 113 creditors have lodged proof of debt claims who are cumulatively owed $1.986 million, according to a liquidation report obtained by news.com.au.

Vicki Tanzen said her family’s bricklaying company was contracted for some of Red Bluff Homes’ jobs and its demise has left them $35,000 in the hole.

This is third time in the past year her family has been stung from a building company going under.

“All up, out of everyone (every company that has collapsed), it’s $100,000 we’ve lost,” Ms Tanzen told news.com.au.

Earlier this week, creditors were sent an initial liquidation report which detailed the many meetings Red Bluff Homes had with the insolvency experts before appointing them officially as liquidators.

This report “was a devastating blow” for Ms Tanzen.

“The company still had us out there working these f*cking jobs,” she said.

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