Websites for Melbourne sparkies and electrical contractors, with your REC number on every page, a call button for the power point that died at dinner time, and clear sections for switchboards, rental safety checks, solar and EV chargers.
In Victoria, a business that carries out or offers electrical contracting work has to be a Registered Electrical Contractor, and Energy Safe Victoria wants that REC number on the material you use to win the work. Once that's sorted, the site's job is to show the jobs you want more of and the suburbs you'll drive to.
Energy Safe Victoria requires an REC's registration number on all promotional material, including advertisements, notices and statements. We put it in the footer of every page and beside the quote form, and add your A Grade licence number too if you'd like customers to see it.
All electrical installation work in Victoria needs a Certificate of Electrical Safety. One line saying you complete and send it, and that prescribed work such as a main switchboard or a solar system is checked by an independent inspector before it's switched on, settles the paperwork question early.
From 13 October 2026, every Victorian rental needs an electrical safety check every two years, not only leases signed since March 2021. If you want that work, give it a heading of its own that says what your check covers and how an agent sends through a property address.
Since 29 March 2023, power outlets and lighting circuits in Victorian rentals have had to connect to a switchboard-type circuit breaker and a residual current device. Name those jobs the way a landlord would type them, safety switch upgrade or switchboard upgrade, rather than tucking them under "general electrical".
New rooftop solar systems up to 200 kW installed in Victoria since 1 October 2024 have to support the state's emergency backstop. A short note on your solar page about what that means for exports answers a question a homeowner may have before signing.
From 1 January 2027, new Victorian homes can't be connected to gas except in specific circumstances, and from 1 March 2027 gas hot water systems can't be installed in existing homes. The state lists electricians among the trades affected, and the BPC notes that electrical work on a heat pump water heater is for a licensed electrician. If you wire heat pump hot water and electric heating, or team up with a plumber who fits them, say so.
Energy Safe Victoria licenses electrical workers and registers electrical contractors. Anyone in the business of electrical contracting, or offering to contract, has to be registered as an electrical contractor, and the REC's installation work has to be effectively supervised by someone holding an A Grade electrician's licence, either the REC or a nominated technical supervisor. RECs must also carry public liability insurance and must not carry out contracting work unless their registration and insurance are current. The REC number is the one Energy Safe requires on promotional material, and customers can look it up on the public REC register. If your business trades under a different name from the registered one, we show both on the site so that check lines up.
Victoria uses a Certificate of Electrical Safety for all electrical installation work, and not following the certificate rules is a criminal offence. Non-prescribed work, such as lights, power points, air-conditioning and a hot water service, is left switched on once finished, and the customer gets a copy of the certificate within 30 days. Prescribed work, including consumer mains, main switchboards, meter boxes, solar systems and batteries, can't be turned on until an independent Licensed Electrical Inspector has inspected it, and the customer gets the certificate within 4 days of it being completed after the inspection. A two-line FAQ on your site covering this is enough.
For rentals, the rules widened in October 2026. From 13 October 2026, the two-yearly electrical safety check applies to every rental property in Victoria; before that, it covered agreements entered into since March 2021. A rental provider has to tell a new renter the date of the last check before the lease is signed, and the check must be done by a licensed or registered electrician. Annual smoke alarm safety checks became mandatory for all rentals from 25 November 2025, and buildings constructed after 1 August 1997 must have hard-wired smoke alarms with battery back-up, which have to be installed by a qualified electrician. If you replace hard-wired alarms or do agency maintenance, a section written for property managers is where to say what you check and how you report back.
Melbourne's poles and wires are split between five distribution businesses: CitiPower in the city and inner suburbs, Jemena in the northern and north-western suburbs, Powercor in the western suburbs, United Energy in the southern suburbs and on the Mornington Peninsula, and AusNet Services in the outer northern and eastern suburbs. Since 1 October 2024, the emergency backstop has applied to new rooftop solar systems up to 200 kW and to older systems that get a new inverter, unless it's a like-for-like or warranty replacement. It lets exports be turned down or off as a last resort and doesn't affect the power supply to the home. Naming the network areas you regularly install in tells a solar customer you've connected systems near them before.
Metropolitan Melbourne takes in 31 of Victoria's 79 council areas and about 4.9 million people, so "servicing all of Melbourne" is a big promise for a sole trader. List the suburbs you'll drive to for a standard call-out, grouped by side of town, and add a line for the areas you'll travel to for larger jobs such as a switchboard replacement or a solar install. We're an Adelaide team and work with Victorian clients by phone and email, so there are no site visits: you send your REC details and photos of your work, and we send back a draft to check on your phone.
We haven't built a site for an electrician yet, so these are the nearest matches from other licensed trades: a Queensland plumber and gas fitter whose single page puts licensed services first, and an Adelaide renovation builder whose site splits services and service areas into separate pages.
Plumbing and gas in Queensland, another trade where customers check the licence before they ring. One page lists six services, shows 13 job photos in a gallery that swipes on mobile, and has testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.
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A licensed South Australian renovation builder. The 30-page site has seven service pages, seven service-area pages, five planning guides, a project gallery, an FAQ, a seven-step quote form and tap-to-call: the same structure an electrical contractor with domestic, commercial and solar work could use on a smaller scale.
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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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$399
Your REC number, services, the suburbs you cover, job photos, a quote form and a call button, all on one page.
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A home page plus two of these: solar and batteries, switchboard and safety switch upgrades, or rental safety checks for agents.
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For contractors running domestic, commercial and solar work: a page for each, plus pages for the parts of Melbourne your crews cover.
Energy Safe Victoria says an REC's registration number must be on all promotional material, including advertisements, notices and statements, and we treat your website as one of those. We put it in the footer of every page and near the quote form. If you trade under a business name that differs from the name on the registration, we show both, so a customer searching the REC register can match them up.
Yes. We work with businesses around Australia by phone and email, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. We haven't built an electrician's site yet, so the closest examples we can show you are other licensed trades. You send your REC details, services, suburbs and photos; we build the draft, you ask for changes, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
If you want that work, yes. From 13 October 2026 the two-yearly electrical safety check covers every Victorian rental, so agents managing older leases now need checks they didn't before. A short section saying what your check covers and how an agent sends through an address is enough. We don't build booking systems, so requests arrive by email through your quote form, and your number stays one tap away.
A sentence or two helps. Since 1 October 2024, new rooftop solar systems up to 200 kW in Victoria, and older systems that get a new inverter other than a like-for-like or warranty replacement, must support the emergency backstop, which can turn exports down or off in rare emergencies. It doesn't affect the power supply to the home. Send us the wording you already use with customers and we'll put it on the page.
Only the ones you'd go to for a standard call-out, grouped under headings like inner north or south-east, with a separate line for the areas you'll travel to for bigger jobs. Metropolitan Melbourne spans 31 council areas, and a long list of places you rarely work brings calls you'll end up turning down. You can change the list after launch as often as you like; text changes on existing pages are part of the $30 monthly hosting.
Send us your REC number, a few photos of recent jobs and the suburbs you cover. You'll get a quote first, and nothing is payable until you've approved the draft.
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