Websites for Brisbane bathroom renovation businesses, from ensuites in raised Queenslanders to bathrooms in high-rise units. Owners see which QBCC licence class you hold, rooms like theirs before and after, and what changes when the building has a body corporate.
Brisbane's housing splits three ways for a bathroom renovator. At the 2021 Census more than three in five of the city's occupied homes were separate houses, about a quarter were flats or apartments, and close to two in five were rented. Each group arrives at your site with different questions, so it should answer the ones that lead to the work you want.
Bathroom work in Queensland can sit under a builder licence restricted to kitchen, bathroom and laundry installation, a builder low rise licence, or trade classes such as waterproofing and wall and floor tiling. We put your class and number beside the name the licence is held under, list the licensed plumber and electrician on your jobs, and link to the QBCC's licensed contractor search so an owner can look you up.
Work on a unit in a building of more than three storeys sits outside the Queensland Home Warranty Scheme. An owner on the ninth floor may expect the same cover a house gets, so a short note on your unit page, saying what your own written terms cover and linking to the QBCC, is fairer to them than finding out after they've signed.
Unit jobs depend on things outside the bathroom: lift bookings, permitted work hours, where the skip or trailer can go, and any approval needed if the work touches pipes in the slab or walls the body corporate looks after. A checklist the owner can forward to their committee or building manager gets those sorted before your start date.
Is the bathroom upstairs in a high-set house, downstairs in a build-under, or in a unit, and on which floor? Will the toilet, shower or vanity move? Does the owner already have Council's drainage plan for the property? The form asks those, takes photos of the room as it stands, and lets the owner give a rough budget and the month they'd like to start.
If you renovate houses built before 1990, say how you check for asbestos cement sheeting, which Queensland's asbestos website says was often used in wet areas, and who removes it when you find it. If you work in character suburbs, keep planning claims general: Council says renovations involving only internal works are unlikely to need planning approval, but houses under its character or heritage overlays have their own City Plan rules, so leave the detail for each owner's own questions.
Two in three Brisbane apartments were rented at the 2021 Census. Property managers want quick, tidy refits between tenancies, fittings that pass the Residential Tenancies Authority's water efficiency test, and bathrooms that meet the minimum housing standards on privacy, plumbing, damp and mould. A section aimed at them, covering how you arrange keys and access, speaks to a client who may have more than one property to send you.
“Upstairs bathroom, 1920s Queenslander, Paddington”, “New ensuite under a raised house, Carina” or “Bathroom, ninth-floor unit, Toowong”. A caption like that tells a visitor whether you've worked on a home like theirs. Add how many weeks the room was out of use and the gallery also answers how long the household will be without a shower.
Licences. The QBCC licenses building work in Queensland, and its advertising rules (the licensed name, licence number and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act, on your website as much as your ute) are set out on our page for Brisbane builders. What's particular to bathrooms is the licence class. Queensland has a builder licence restricted to kitchen, bathroom and laundry installation: it covers installing, refurbishing, restoring and repairing those rooms in houses, and in class 2 to 9 buildings, which include apartment blocks, only where the room's gross floor area is 50 square metres or less. It doesn't extend to work that may affect the structural performance of the building, and the holder can't personally do work that needs an occupational licence, such as plumbing, unless they hold that licence too. Waterproofing is a trade class of its own, and the wall and floor tiling class includes waterproofing done for tiling. Plumbing and drainage need a QBCC licence whatever the job is worth.
Units and the home warranty gap. At the 2021 Census the City of Brisbane had 465,124 occupied private dwellings, and 118,894 of them were flats or apartments. About 58,000 of those were in blocks of four storeys or more, and that height matters: Queensland's building regulation leaves work on a multiple dwelling of more than three storeys out of the Home Warranty Scheme (the QBCC doesn't count one storey that is mainly car park), and its own example is renovating the bathroom of a single unit in a 10-storey building. Ownership lines matter too. Multi-storey unit blocks are usually on a building format plan, where the boundary between a lot and its neighbour or the common property runs through the centre of the floor, wall or ceiling. Pipes and wiring inside those boundary structures, or serving more than one lot, are common property that the body corporate maintains. The owner looks after fixtures and fittings inside the lot and, in a community titles scheme, the shower tray their lot uses even where it sits outside the boundary. Changes an owner makes to common property generally count as improvements, which need approval from the committee for smaller jobs or an ordinary resolution at a general meeting.
Plumbing paperwork. Queensland's plumbing regulation sorts work into categories. Replacing a fixture where it already stands is minor work. Installing or relocating a fixture in a house is notifiable work: the plumber lodges a Form 4 with the QBCC once it's finished and gives the owner a copy, and Brisbane City Council's plumbing page names new fixtures in bathroom and kitchen renovations as typical notifiable work. For unit buildings, the notifiable list only takes in buildings of one or two storeys, and even there not the sanitary drainage, so in a taller block a relocated toilet or shower may need a Council plumbing permit before work starts. The QBCC has a questionnaire for checking which applies. Council also sells copies of the drainage plans it holds for houses and offers virtual viewings, so you can see where the drains run before pricing a new layout. Our Brisbane plumbers page covers the QBCC side in more detail.
Older homes and rentals. Queensland's asbestos website says asbestos cement sheeting was common from the 1940s to the late 1980s and was often used for wall and ceiling sheets inside houses, particularly in wet areas such as bathrooms. It rates a house built before the mid-1980s as highly likely to contain some, warns that earlier renovators sometimes sheeted straight over it, and says the felt backing on older vinyl sheet flooring is friable and must be removed by a Class A licence holder. Removing any friable asbestos, or more than 10 square metres of the non-friable kind, needs a licence. Rentals are the other large market: about 38 percent of the city's occupied homes were rented in 2021, including two in three apartments. Since 1 September 2024 every Queensland tenancy has had to meet minimum housing standards, among them bathrooms that give privacy, toilets that flush, adequate plumbing and drainage, and premises free of damp and mould. A landlord who wants tenants to pay for all the water they use also needs efficient fittings: showerheads and the cold taps over basins, sinks and laundry troughs flowing at no more than 9 litres a minute, and dual-flush toilets using no more than 6.5 litres on a full flush and 3.5 on a half.
People search by suburb, so it helps to name Bulimba, Wilston or Indooroopilly rather than writing "Greater Brisbane". List the suburbs you'll quote in, add any in neighbouring Moreton Bay, Logan, Ipswich or Redland if you cross council lines, and say plainly whether you take high-rise jobs. WebCraft Studio is an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, so Brisbane renovators work with us by phone and email: you send your words, licence details, photos and suburb list, we send a draft link, and you pay once you've approved it.
We haven't built a site for a Brisbane bathroom renovator yet. Bathroom renovations are one of six services on the site we built for M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas, a Queensland plumber and gas fitter, and they have a page of their own on the site of Bright Building & Renovations, an Adelaide builder. Our Brisbane client, Queensland Dance & Performing Arts on the Bayside, is a dance school rather than a trade.
A licensed plumbing and gas business in Queensland that lists bathroom renovations alongside hot water, gas, drainage and backflow work. We built it a single page carrying a 13-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, customer testimonials, a protected contact form and a call button.
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A licensed Adelaide builder doing bathroom, kitchen, laundry and whole-home renovations. Its 30-page site pairs a bathroom renovation page with five planning guides, seven service-area pages, a project gallery and a seven-step quote form, a layout that would also suit a renovator splitting work between houses and units.
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Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.
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Before-and-after pairs captioned by suburb and house type, your QBCC licence line, a short body corporate note and a quote form that asks about layout and storeys, all on one page.
What we'd suggest for most Brisbane renovators
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A home page, a gallery split into houses and units, and a page on how a job runs: licences, plumbing paperwork, waterproofing, asbestos checks and what you need from a body corporate.
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A home page and gallery, plus pages for unit bathrooms, Queenslander and character-house bathrooms, ensuites and build-unders, accessible bathrooms, laundries and rental refits for property managers.
Yes. We're a web design team in Adelaide, South Australia, working with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. In Queensland they include M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas and Queensland Dance & Performing Arts on Brisbane's Bayside. You send photos and licence details, we send a draft link to check between jobs, and you pay nothing until you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
The name the licence is held under, the licence number and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act, set out legibly (the QBCC treats a website as advertising, and we put them on every page), plus the class you hold. If that's the builder licence restricted to kitchen, bathroom and laundry installation, bear in mind it doesn't cover work that may affect the building's structure, so a job like that needs a licence that does. The advertising obligations are yours as the licensee: check the QBCC's guidance against your own licence, and we'll lay out the details you give us.
Something short and accurate. Queensland's regulation leaves work on multiple dwellings of more than three storeys out of the Home Warranty Scheme, and gives renovating a bathroom in a 10-storey building as an example. State what your own written terms cover, link to the QBCC for the scheme itself, and keep the wording written for house jobs on the pages about houses. We present what you approve; we don't advise on insurance.
Not by itself, and we wouldn't want it to guess. It can collect what your plumber needs to decide: house or unit, how many storeys the building has, whether any fixture moves, and whether the owner has a copy of Council's drainage plan. Your plumber makes the call, with the QBCC's notifiable work questionnaire if it helps. The answers land in your inbox together with photos of the room.
We'd suggest it. In Queensland waterproofing is its own QBCC licence class, and the wall and floor tiling class includes waterproofing done for tiling, so an owner may want to know whose licence covers the membrane under their shower. Name the business or person doing it, their licence, the system you use if you're happy to share it, and the paperwork the owner receives at handover.
On the 3-page site we'd split the gallery into houses and units and keep one page on how a job runs. On the 8-page site each gets a page of its own, because the questions differ: a house owner asks about layout, Council's drainage plan and old sheeting behind the tiles, while a unit owner asks about the body corporate, lift bookings and home warranty in taller buildings. More pages can be added after launch, quoted first.
Send us your QBCC licence details, the suburbs you take bathroom jobs in and a few before-and-after pairs, and tell us whether houses or units keep you busier. We quote first, build the draft, and you pay once you've approved it.
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