For electricians working the Tweed, where a job in Banora Point and a job in Coolangatta are a short drive apart but in different states, on different networks and, for half the year, in different time zones. Your site makes clear which side you work on, with your licence details and a call button on every page.
The Queensland border runs between Tweed Heads and Coolangatta, and even through Gold Coast Airport, which sits partly in Tweed Heads West. Customers on both sides will find you, so the site has to answer the border questions before they ring.
This season NSW's daylight saving runs from 4 October 2026 to 4 April 2027, and Queensland doesn't have daylight saving at all. For those six months, 7am in Tweed Heads is 6am in Coolangatta. Write your hours as NSW time (or both), and make sure your Google Business Profile says the same, so nobody expects you an hour early.
If you hold a NSW contractor licence, put its number and category in the footer. If you also hold Queensland licences, show them separately and label each with its state. A customer in Coolangatta can't tell from a NSW number alone whether you can work in their house, and may not ring to ask.
Tweed Heads, Tweed Heads South, Tweed Heads West and Banora Point in one group; the coast from Fingal Head and Kingscliff to Cabarita Beach, Hastings Point and Pottsville in another; Murwillumbah and Tumbulgum up the valley. Queensland suburbs go in their own list, and only once you're sure you can take work there.
Queensland wants interconnected photoelectric alarms in every home by 1 January 2027. On the NSW side, landlords check alarms yearly and need a licensed electrician for hard-wired ones, and holiday lets must meet a fire safety standard that includes interconnected alarms. A section that sorts out which rules apply where is useful to agents managing homes on both sides.
Tweed Heads is on Essential Energy's network, and its emergency line is 13 20 80; Coolangatta is on Energex's. Your emergency section should say which number to ring for fallen lines on each side of the border, and what you'll come out for yourself.
Council's flood recovery work covers the 2022 and 2024 floods and ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred in 2025. NSW recovery advice puts a licensed electrician's check of the power supply before any repairs, with appliances checked and tagged. If you do that work, the page should be live before the next warning, with a form that takes the address and photos.
On the NSW side the rules are the state's usual ones: a Building Commission NSW licence for electrical wiring work, your licence details on all advertising including the website, and a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work after testing. Our Sydney electricians page sets them out. Across the border, Queensland has its own licensing and advertising requirements, which our Gold Coast electricians page covers.
Crossing south is the simpler direction. Under NSW's East Coast Electrician's scheme, electricians from Queensland, Victoria and the ACT can work in NSW on their home licence without notifying the regulator. NSW lists the Queensland equivalents: an unrestricted electrical mechanic licence and an electrical contractor licence held by the same person match a NSW endorsed contractor licence, and an unrestricted electrical mechanic licence on its own matches a qualified supervisor certificate. Someone who moves their home to NSW has to apply for a NSW licence instead. Going north, NSW's own guidance notes that Queensland isn't currently part of the national Automatic Mutual Recognition scheme, so a Tweed-based electrician who wants jobs in Coolangatta should check with Queensland's Electrical Safety Office first. Send us what each regulator confirms, and we'll show those details on the site.
The networks split at the border too. Council says the Tweed's streetlights are maintained by Essential Energy, and points people to its emergency number, 13 20 80; Energex's network reaches south only as far as Coolangatta. Level 2 work on the NSW side means authorisation from Essential Energy under the state's ASP scheme, so if you list it, say which network it applies to.
Tweed Shire covers 1,303 square kilometres with 37 km of coastline and more than 15 villages, and council puts its population at about 101,000, growing past 126,000 by 2046. The Tweed Heads urban centre alone counted 63,721 people at the 2021 Census. Besides the town and its southern and western suburbs, people search by Kingscliff, Cudgen, Casuarina, Cabarita Beach, Hastings Point, Pottsville and Fingal Head on the coast and Murwillumbah and Tumbulgum inland. Flooding has hit the valley more than once; Murwillumbah was among the places flooded in 2022, and council's recovery program now spans the 2022 and 2024 floods and ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred.
We're an Adelaide team on Hutt St, so a Tweed site is built over phone and email. One of our clients is a licensed Queensland trade, M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas; we haven't built for an electrician yet. You send your licence details for each state you work in, your suburbs and some job photos; we send back a draft link, and you pay once you approve it.
No electrician in our portfolio yet. The nearest examples are M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas, a licensed Queensland trade, and Bright Building & Renovations in Adelaide, whose service-area pages are how we'd keep NSW and Queensland information apart.
A Queensland plumber and gas fitter, another licensed trade where people check credentials before booking. One page with a six-service overview, a 13-photo gallery that swipes on mobile, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.
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A licensed South Australian renovation builder. Its 30-page site has seven service pages, seven service-area pages, five planning guides, a project gallery and a seven-step quote form; separate area pages like these suit a contractor with different rules on each side of a border.
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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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Licence details labelled by state, hours in NSW time, suburbs grouped by state and area, a smoke alarm section, a quote form and tap-to-call, all on one page.
Our suggestion if you work both sides of the border
$899
A home page, a page for NSW customers from Tweed Heads to Pottsville and the valley, and a page for Coolangatta customers with your Queensland details.
$1,499
For contractors with a team: pages for each state, smoke alarms and rentals, holiday lets, flood and storm work, solar and batteries, and the coast and valley towns.
NSW says electricians from Queensland can be recognised under its East Coast Electrician's scheme without notifying the regulator, and it treats a Queensland unrestricted electrical mechanic licence plus electrical contractor licence, held by the same person, as equivalent to a NSW endorsed contractor licence. Confirm what that means for your business with Building Commission NSW, then we'll add the NSW suburbs.
Pick one and say so, or show both. From October to April NSW is an hour ahead of Queensland, so 'open from 7am' means two different things a few streets apart. We'll put the same wording on the site and remind you to match it on your Google Business Profile.
Keep the two states apart. For Queensland homes, the 1 January 2027 deadline for interconnected photoelectric alarms. For NSW, yearly checks in rentals, hard-wired alarms replaced by a licensed electrician, and interconnected alarms in holiday lets under the short-term rental fire safety standard. Then say which of those jobs you do.
One, for almost everyone. Separate sections or pages for each state, with the right licence, rules and suburbs beside each, cover it, and you keep one phone number, one quote form and one lot of hosting. Two sites means twice the updating for no real gain.
By phone and email. Our team is at Ste 3/110 Hutt St, Adelaide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send your details for each state, your services, suburbs and photos; we build the draft and send a link; you ask for changes, and pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your licence details for each state you work in, the suburbs you cover on each side of the border and photos from a few jobs. You'll get a price first, and we build the draft before you pay anything.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au