Websites for Brisbane handymen and home maintenance businesses, built around a priced job list and a booking form that takes every odd job on a customer's list at once. Property managers can see how you handle emergency jobs and the minimum housing standards, older customers can see whether you take Home Assist Secure work, and your QBCC line says plainly what you can and can't take on.
A Brisbane handyman can hear from a property manager, a unit owner, a renter and a pensioner in the same week, and Queensland has separate rules for each of them: what a landlord has to keep in working order, who signs off on changes in a body corporate building, what a tenant must ask before fixing anything to a wall, and which jobs a state program will subsidise. A useful site sorts your work along those lines, then makes the job list quick to send.
Name the jobs you do most, such as rehanging a door, replacing a fly screen, fitting a grab rail, assembling flat-pack furniture or patching plasterboard, with a starting price or the time each usually takes. Underneath, one short block gives your hourly rate, your minimum call-out charge and how you bill materials, so a customer can add up three small jobs before deciding to ring.
One row per job, a photo for each, the room it's in, and whether the house is high-set, lowset or a unit up a flight of stairs, so you know which ladder goes in the van. The customer picks a preferred day and morning or afternoon and you confirm. For fixed-length jobs we can build online booking into the site, quoted per job, or link the scheduling app you already use.
Queensland tenancy agreements have to name a nominated repairer for emergency repairs. If you're willing to be named for the jobs within your skills and licence, such as a lock that no longer secures a door or a rotten stair tread, say so and give the hours you answer. Then explain how you take work orders, contact the tenant for access and send photos with the invoice.
Every Queensland rental has to meet minimum housing standards, and several of them are handyman work: functioning locks or latches on external doors and windows that can be reached without a ladder, curtains or blinds that give privacy in bedrooms, and decks and stairs free of rot. Listing the standards jobs you take tells an agency you know why it's calling.
A tenant can't just book you to put up shelves or a TV bracket. In Queensland they first ask the owner on the RTA's Form 23, and the owner has 28 days to decide. A line on the booking form asking renters to attach the written approval saves a wasted trip and an awkward call with their agent.
Home Assist Secure subsidises the labour on handyperson jobs for eligible Queenslanders aged 60 or over or living with a disability, and providers use their own staff or local tradespeople. If a provider sends you work, mention it. If you fit grab rails, key safes or wireless smoke alarms, list each by name, and keep the phone number large and at the top of the page.
Building work valued over $3,300 needs a QBCC licence, and electrical and plumbing work needs the right licence whatever it costs. If you hold a QBCC licence, the site shows it the way the QBCC asks; if you don't, it carries a value statement instead. Either way, it goes in the footer of every page.
What you can take on without a licence. The QBCC says a handyman doesn't need a licence as long as the job is worth no more than $3,300, isn't electrical or plumbing work and doesn't call for an occupational licence. It defines the value of building work as the reasonable cost to a consumer of having a licensed contractor do it, with labour, materials and GST included, regardless of who supplies the materials, so a customer buying their own timber doesn't bring the figure down. Some licence classes apply at any value; the QBCC's list includes drainage, gas fitting, fire protection and chemical termite management. A handyman who replaces termite-damaged skirting or architraves should keep the two apart on the site: the timber repair is one job, and treating the termites needs that licence. Our pages for Brisbane painters and Brisbane carpenters go through the QBCC's advertising rules in detail. In short, a licensee shows the licensed name, the licence number and that they're licensed under the QBCC Act, while an unlicensed contractor states the limit, for example "Cannot perform building work valued in excess of $3,300".
Rentals. Since 1 September 2024 every Queensland tenancy has had to meet the minimum housing standards. Among them: the home is weatherproof and structurally sound, with decks and stairs free from rot or defects; fixtures and fittings aren't likely to cause injury through normal use; external doors and windows that can be reached without a ladder have functioning locks or latches; and curtains, blinds or other coverings give privacy in rooms such as bedrooms. Repairs needed to meet the standards count as emergency repairs, as does a fault or damage that leaves the home unsafe or insecure. According to the RTA's emergency repairs page, the tenancy agreement must give a nominated repairer's name and phone number and say whether that repairer or the property manager is the first point of contact; if the tenant can't reach the contact within a reasonable time, either the tenant or the property manager can arrange repairs up to four weeks' rent. Changes the tenant wants run the other way. Under the rules that began on 1 May 2025, set out in the RTA's fixtures and structural changes fact sheet, a tenant asks on Form 23, the owner has 28 days to decide, and no reply doesn't count as permission.
Body corporate buildings. When a job touches common property, Queensland's guidance on improving common property and lots applies. Under the Standard, Accommodation and Small Schemes modules, the committee can approve an owner's improvement to common property if it costs less than $3,000 and doesn't detract from the appearance of a lot; otherwise it needs an ordinary resolution at a general meeting, and the owner has to give the body corporate details of the work and its value. Inside a lot, the guidance sends owners to their by-laws, noting that some require approval for changes to flooring. Renters in a unit face one more step: if body corporate approval is needed, the owner must pass the Form 23 request on within 28 days, and the body corporate's own decision can take longer. A question on the booking form asking unit owners whether the job touches common property sorts this out before you quote.
Older customers and smoke alarms. Home Assist Secure is for people aged 60 or over, or of any age with a disability, who hold a Pensioner Concession Card and can't do the work themselves. It subsidises handyperson jobs, yard work such as pruning and gutter cleaning, minor modifications such as grab rails and easy-turn taps, smoke alarm installation and battery changes, and minor security work such as key safes. The subsidy covers labour up to a per-job and yearly cap; providers carry out the work with their own staff or a local tradesperson; people already on Support at Home or the Commonwealth Home Support Program are generally not eligible; and renters can't use it for work the owner is legally responsible for. Smoke alarms also have a date attached: every Queensland home must have interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms by 1 January 2027. The Queensland Fire Department's smoke alarm fact sheet says wireless alarms with a non-removable 10-year battery connect without wiring and householders can install them themselves, while hardwired alarms must be replaced with hardwired ones, which is mains wiring and a licensed electrician's job. Our Brisbane electricians page covers that side.
Older houses, your area and how we work. Queensland's asbestos website says a house built before the mid-1980s is highly likely to contain asbestos materials and one built between then and 1990 likely does, and it offers householders a warning sticker to put on the switchboard, meter box or laundry cupboard door so visiting trades see it. If you look for one before drilling or cutting, a sentence saying so reassures owners of older fibro and brick homes. Brisbane City is Australia's most populous council area and borders Moreton Bay, Somerset, Ipswich, Logan and Redland, so the site should name the suburbs you cover and say where you stop. WebCraft Studio is an Adelaide team at Hutt St, and Brisbane handymen work with us by phone and email; our Queensland clients include a dance school at Thorneside and a licensed plumber and gas fitter. Send your rates, job list, suburbs and a few photos of finished work, and we'll send back a draft link to check on your phone. We summarise the official pages linked above and present what you tell us about your work; we don't give legal or licensing advice.
There's no handyman among our clients yet. M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas is a Queensland trade whose single page carries its services, job photos and a contact form, and Phoenix Housekeeping, a NSW home services business, publishes its prices and marks out the suburbs it covers. Those are the two pieces a Brisbane handyman's site leans on most.
A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page covers six services, a 13-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, client testimonials and a protected contact form, with tap-to-call throughout. A handyman's version swaps the services for a priced job list and keeps the gallery for finished work.
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A family-run cleaning business around Lake Macquarie, Cessnock and the Central Coast, not Brisbane. Prices are published, each service has its own page and suburb pages show where it works, which is the same structure a handyman needs for rates, job types and service area.
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A priced job list, your hourly rate and minimum charge, the booking form, the suburbs you cover and your QBCC line, together on one page.
Our suggestion for Brisbane handymen who work for agencies
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A home page with rates and the job list, a page for property managers covering nominated-repairer and minimum-standards jobs, and a page for older customers and unit owners.
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For a business with a few handymen: a home page, then pages for repairs, assembly, outdoor and yard jobs, rentals, body corporate buildings and older customers, plus one for rates and areas.
The QBCC asks unlicensed contractors who advertise to state the value of building work they can do, and its advertising page gives examples such as "Only work valued at $3,300 or less". We'd put that line in the footer of every page, keep the job list to work under that value, and mark electrical and plumbing jobs as ones you pass on to a licensed trade. If you get a licence later, send us the details and we'll replace the line with your licensed name and number.
Yes, if that's work you want. Queensland tenancy agreements must name a nominated repairer for emergency repairs, so agencies need people who pick up the phone. We'd list the emergency jobs within your skills and licence, such as a lock or latch that no longer secures a door or window, give your call-out hours, and leave burst pipes, gas leaks and electrical faults off unless you hold those licences. The RTA's emergency repairs page sets out the full list.
Only if a provider actually sends you jobs. In that case a short line helps older customers who've been referred to you find the right business. Word it as information rather than a promise of a subsidy: the provider checks eligibility and assesses the home, and the customer contacts them first. We'd link the Queensland Government page for the details.
For wireless alarms with a sealed 10-year battery, yes. Every Queensland home needs interconnected photoelectric alarms by 1 January 2027, and the Queensland Fire Department says the wireless kind connects without wiring. Where a house already has hardwired alarms, the replacements must be hardwired too, so unless you hold an electrical licence the page should say you refer those jobs to an electrician.
That they need the owner's written approval before you come. In Queensland a tenant asks on the RTA's Form 23, one form for each request, and the owner has 28 days to decide; no answer isn't approval. A line on your booking form asking renters to attach the approval saves you a trip to a job you can't start. In a unit, the request may also need body corporate approval, which can take longer.
By phone and email. You send your rates, the jobs you take, your suburbs and photos of finished work; we lay them out, send a draft link, and change it as often as you like before you pay. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos. When your rates go up, send the new figures: text changes on existing pages are part of the $30 monthly hosting.
Send us your hourly rate, the jobs on your list and the suburbs you'll drive to. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay only once you're happy with it.
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