Jun 8, 2026 · 48 min · 11 segments
This week on The Gippsland Builder, we're talking about the people who help make the builds happen. Trav and Josh sit down with Sean, branch manager at Dahlsens (and also Trav's brother!), to unpack…
How did it all begin? Take us back.
That was meant to be to Josh.
Oh.
I personally have worked with Dalsons for a long time.
We touched on it briefly in our previous episode, but I've come from doing my apprenticeship with a business that really worked closely with Dalsons.
We helped build and up-spec their offices, and that's sort of where Trav and I first came across paths, I suppose.
Me as a first-year apprentice, Trav is the
Hardware guy I was as a guru.
In the timber yard? Yeah.
I suppose it's been probably a pretty interesting evolution of careers and sort of probably running almost parallel to a point without really even knowing it.
Correct, yeah.
Where was the store back then in the town?
We were in June court back early days.
Yeah.
Early, early days.
And then from there, obviously, with the changes to the Dalsons exiting out of the hardware space and going more into the trade space, that's when they exited Warragul completely and- I went off and did other things in Melbourne and obviously Josh still remained doing what he was doing, just in different relationships.
But it all circled back to when we reopened the Warragul store in Pear Street, which is where you guys are now and still are.
It's probably a good point to touch on, you know, the Dalsons business, longstanding business in Warragul and obviously exited for a period of time.
Yeah.
And really, I suppose when they came back was pretty well when we started to come online.
I think Cam had been selling out of Turalgon to me as well at that point in time because I was anti the other big suppliers in that space, I
suppose you could
say, and
still am.
How did it all begin? Take us back.
That was meant to be to Josh.
Oh.
I personally have worked with Dalsons for a long time.
We touched on it briefly in our previous episode, but I've come from doing my apprenticeship with a business that really worked closely with Dalsons.
We helped build and up-spec their offices, and that's sort of where Trav and I first came across paths, I suppose.
Me as a first-year apprentice, Trav is the
Hardware guy I was as a guru.
In the timber yard? Yeah.
I suppose it's been probably a pretty interesting evolution of careers and sort of probably running almost parallel to a point without really even knowing it.
Correct, yeah.
Where was the store back then in the town?
We were in June court back early days.
Yeah.
Early, early days.
And then from there, obviously, with the changes to the Dalsons exiting out of the hardware space and going more into the trade space, that's when they exited Warragul completely and- I went off and did other things in Melbourne and obviously Josh still remained doing what he was doing, just in different relationships.
But it all circled back to when we reopened the Warragul store in Pear Street, which is where you guys are now and still are.
It's probably a good point to touch on, you know, the Dalsons business, longstanding business in Warragul and obviously exited for a period of time.
Yeah.
And really, I suppose when they came back was pretty well when we started to come online.
I think Cam had been selling out of Turalgon to me as well at that point in time because I was anti the other big suppliers in that space, I
suppose you could
say, and
still am.
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