Websites for electricians and electrical contractors across Townsville, from Kirwan and Douglas to the northern beaches and the industrial streets of Bohle and Garbutt. Your contractor licence where customers can check it, plain words on getting power back on after a flood or a cyclone, and a separate path for business clients.
Townsville has had two big outages since 2019. In the 2019 monsoon flood, about 17,000 Ergon customers lost power at the peak, most of them switched off on purpose for safety. After Tropical Cyclone Kirrily in January 2024, Ergon said more than 50,000 customers in Townsville were off supply. Between those weeks the work is switchboards, solar, air conditioning, new homes and commercial maintenance, and the site has to handle both.
During the 2019 flood, Ergon crews went door to door pulling fuses wherever water had risen high enough to damage switchboards, and told owners a licensed electrical contractor had to inspect a flood-damaged property before it could be reconnected. A page that explains that step, what your inspection covers and how to book it is exactly what an owner holding a pulled fuse is looking for.
Ergon put the Townsville outages after Kirrily down to trees, branches and wind-blown debris bringing down lines. If the whole street is dark, the customer needs the network, not you. One line pointing them to Ergon, and to 13 16 70 or 000 for fallen powerlines, saves you calls you can’t fix and shows you know the difference.
The Bohle Industrial Estate is zoned for medium-impact industry, close to the airport, the highway and the port, and the southern part of Garbutt is an industrial estate as well. Workshop owners and facilities managers there want to see three-phase work, maintenance visits and after-hours response on a page of their own, if you offer them.
An old board with ceramic fuses beside its replacement with circuit breakers and safety switches says more than a paragraph. We lay out before-and-after pairs that swipe on a phone, captioned with the suburb, and the quote form asks the customer for a photo of their own board so you can see what you’re quoting on.
Magnetic Island is part of the city, but it’s reached by ferry from the mainland, so island jobs take some planning. If you take them, say which days you go across. If you work out towards Bluewater, Rollingstone or the Burdekin, name those places so rural customers know whether you’ll make the trip.
Your licensed or registered business name, a statement that you’re licensed under the Electrical Safety Act 2002 and your contractor licence number go in the footer of every page, and again on the business page, where someone filling in a supplier form will look for them.
The state rules are the same here as in the south-east, and our Brisbane electrician page sets them out: electrical work is licensed through the Electrical Safety Office, contracting needs an electrical contractor licence, and section 188 of the Electrical Safety Regulation 2026 decides what an advertisement, website included, must show. Every Queensland home needs interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms from 1 January 2027. The local differences are the network, the weather and where the commercial work is.
Townsville is on Ergon Energy’s network, which covers rural and regional Queensland. The 2019 flood ran from late January into early February; record water in the Ross River Dam led to the spillway being fully opened, and about 3,300 homes were damaged. Ergon said around 17,000 customers were without power at the peak, most de-energised for public safety, and that it had restored supply to every customer it safely could seven days after the flood peak. Flood-damaged properties had to be inspected by a licensed electrical contractor before they could be reconnected.
Kirrily crossed the coast north-west of the city on 25 January 2024. Ergon reported 66,000 customers off supply across the impact zone at the peak, more than 50,000 of them in Townsville, and over 9,000 in the Burdekin. The Electrical Safety Office’s storm guidance fits a Townsville site well: water-damaged hard-wired appliances such as air conditioners may need a licensed electrician’s check before supply is reconnected, and a damaged solar or battery system should be inspected by a licensed electrical contractor before it’s switched back on.
Business work is spread across a few areas. Economic Development Queensland’s Bohle Industrial Estate offers serviced lots in an area zoned for medium-impact industry, and Garbutt, about 5.9 km west of the CBD, holds Townsville Airport and RAAF Base Townsville in its north and an industrial estate in its south. A contractor who works for those businesses does better with a page written for them than with a line at the bottom of a list of household jobs.
We’re an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Townsville businesses by phone and email. You send your licence details, the suburbs you cover and photos of boards you’ve replaced; we send a draft link you can check between jobs, and you pay once you’re happy with it.
We haven’t built a site for an electrician yet, and we’d rather say so. These two sites show the parts a Townsville electrician needs: a Queensland trade with its licence on show and a job gallery, and a business that spells out exactly which areas it covers.
A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page covers six services, with a 13-photo gallery of real jobs that swipes on a phone, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.
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Licence footer, services, a short reconnection and storm section, suburbs and the island, a quote form that takes a switchboard photo, and tap-to-call.
Homes and businesses on separate pages
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A home page, a page on flood and storm reconnection and switchboard upgrades, and a page for commercial and industrial clients.
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Pages for each main service, commercial and industrial work, builders, solar and batteries, and the different parts of the city, with job galleries.
If you do the inspections, yes. Keep it factual: after the 2019 flood, Ergon pulled fuses at properties where water had reached the switchboard and said those properties needed a licensed electrical contractor’s inspection before reconnection. Say what your inspection involves and how to book it, and link to the Electrical Safety Office’s storm page for the general advice.
A little. A short note near your phone number saying that a whole-street outage is Ergon’s to fix, with Ergon’s emergency number for fallen lines, filters out some of those calls. Keep your own number for the jobs that really are yours: a tripping safety switch, a damaged board or a house that’s dark while the neighbours have power.
If it’s a real part of your business, yes. A page for workshops, offices and industrial sites can list the work you do, your after-hours arrangements and how to get a quote, with a form that asks for the site address and access times. On a one-page site, it works as a clearly headed section.
No. Our prices are the same in every city: $399 for one page, $899 for up to 3 pages and $1,499 for up to 8 pages, with no GST added. There’s no deposit, and hosting after launch is $30 a month with no contract.
By phone and email, with a draft link in between. WebCraft Studio is an Adelaide team, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You won’t need to leave a job for a meeting. We reply within 24 hours, and most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos.
Tell us your contractor licence number, which parts of the city you cover and whether you want more house calls, more business work or both. We’ll confirm the price, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.
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