Websites for Perth handymen and home maintenance businesses that put your hourly rate and job list first, then take the customer's whole list through one booking form. Pages can speak to property managers about WA's rental security standards, to renters about the changes they're now allowed to ask for, and to hills and fringe owners racing a council fire notice.
Work for a Perth handyman follows the calendar more than most. Spring brings council fire notices in the hills and on bigger blocks, summer brings broken reticulation and sprinkler days, and the rental market keeps lock, flyscreen and window jobs coming all year. A good site names those jobs in the words customers use, prices them as far as you're comfortable, and makes it quick to send a list.
Your hourly rate, the minimum charge, whether travel from your base is billed and how you charge for materials, followed by the jobs you do most: rehanging doors, replacing flyscreens and fly doors, fitting window locks, patching walls, assembling furniture, mending fences. A customer should be able to estimate a half-day before they pick up the phone.
A row for each job, a photo with each, the room or part of the yard, and a box for preferred days, morning or afternoon. The form can ask renters whether the landlord has agreed and ask hills owners whether a fire notice deadline is involved, so you can sort the urgent jobs first. If you'd like customers to choose a time themselves, we can build online booking into the site, quoted per job, or link the scheduling app you already use.
WA rentals have a set of minimum security standards: a deadlock or compliant security screen door at the main entry, deadlocks or patio bolts on other external doors, and a lock or latch on each openable window. Property managers send work orders in those terms, so a page listing deadlocks, patio bolts, window locks and louvre locks tells them you're the person for the job.
Under WA's tenancy rules, renters can ask for a list of minor modifications using Form 26, and the landlord has 14 days to respond. Picture hooks, window coverings, child safety gates and letterbox locks are all on it. A short section listing the ones you fit, with a reminder to get the request approved first, brings in renters who thought nothing could be changed.
In the hills and outer suburbs, councils publish an annual fire hazard reduction notice that tells owners to clear gutters, roofs and walls of flammable matter and prune back trees near buildings. If you do that work, a seasonal page naming the councils you cover and pointing to their notices gets found by owners searching in October and November.
Broken sprinklers, leaking solenoids and dead controllers are steady handyman work in Perth gardens. A retic page can list what you fix, explain that you set controllers to the customer's watering days, and note the winter switch-off, so nobody expects their garden watered by sprinkler in July.
A handyman who paints needs to know where WA's painting registration starts, and every handyman needs to keep smoke alarms and power points with a licensed electrician. The job list says which work you take and which you pass on, and your registration number goes in the footer if you hold one.
Registration, briefly. WA has no handyman licence, but two registrations run close to handyman work. Building and Energy says painting work over one thousand dollars within the Building Services Board's jurisdiction needs a registered painting contractor, so a handyman who takes on a room repaint or a fence and eaves job can cross that line quickly. Builder registration applies to permit work of $20,000 or more. Our pages for Perth painters and Perth builders explain why a registered contractor's number has to appear in its advertising, websites included. Electrical work belongs to licensed electricians, and Building and Energy's smoke alarm rules for homes that are rented or sold say only a licensed electrical contractor can connect or disconnect mains-powered alarms. Rentals need mains-powered alarms no more than 10 years old, with a sealed 10-year battery alarm allowed only where there's no hidden space to run wiring. A handyman's agent page should say you refer alarm work on.
Rental security standards. Consumer Protection's page on rental home security summarises the minimum standards in the Residential Tenancies Regulations 1989. The main entry needs a deadlock or a key-lockable security screen door that complies with AS 5039-2008. Other external doors need a deadlock, or a patio bolt where a deadlock can't be fitted. Every openable window needs a lock or latch that stops it being opened from outside, louvres included, unless a compliant security screen covers it. There must also be an electric light near the main entry that can be switched on from inside, although that light is electrician work. In apartments, ground-floor doors and windows must meet all the standards, while upper floors need the entry lock and locks on windows that are easy to reach. Agricultural, rural and heritage-listed homes are exempt but still have to be reasonably secure, and landlords can't change locks without the tenant's consent.
Renters' modifications. The WA Government's page on making changes to a rental home lists the minor modifications a tenant can ask for on Form 26. They include picture hooks, wall screws and wall anchors; water-saving and hand-held shower heads; window coverings and cord anchors; adhesive or pressure-mounted child safety locks and gates; window child safety devices; letterbox and gate locks; wireless doorbells; flyscreens and draughtproofing. Landlords can insist a qualified person does some others, among them lever-style taps, painting a room and non-permanent window film. A landlord has 14 days to respond, and can refuse without the Commissioner's approval only on narrow grounds, such as a law or strata by-law that prevents the change, asbestos that would be disturbed, or a heritage listing. Securing furniture to a wall for a child or a person with disability has its own form, Form 24. The tenant pays, and at the end of the lease must remove the change unless the landlord agrees to keep it, then repair the damage, so patching and repainting holes is end-of-lease work a handyman can list as well.
Fire hazard notices. Councils on the hills and the urban fringe issue annual notices under the Bush Fires Act, and each sets its own dates. The City of Kalamunda's 2026/27 notice made 1 November the deadline, with the works kept up until 31 March 2027. It requires gutters, roofs and walls to be kept free of flammable matter, grass and weeds cut to 50 mm or less, and trees and shrubs within 2 m of a building pruned to no more than 2 m high or pruned back from the building; blocks of 5,000 square metres or more also need firebreaks at least 3 m wide with 4 m of clearance overhead. The City says owners may use a contractor but stay responsible for the work being done properly. The City of Armadale's notice runs to 30 November instead. A fire-season page should list the councils you cover, link each one's notice and say how far ahead owners need to book. If you also cut back old pine, note that parts of metropolitan Perth are inside the European house borer zones, where moving and disposing of pinewood is controlled.
Water rules, and how we work. The winter sprinkler switch-off applies across Perth, Mandurah and the South West from 1 June to 31 August, domestic garden bores included. In the rest of the year, bore users in Perth and Mandurah water on two rostered days a week, once on each day, before 9am or after 6pm. Water Corporation permits bore maintenance testing during the switch-off and lists when systems can be tested after a repair, so a retic page can say you'll test the system and leave the controller set to the customer's days. As for us, WebCraft Studio is an Adelaide team on Hutt St and works with Perth businesses by phone and email; Adelaide is an hour and a half ahead of Perth, two and a half during South Australian daylight saving. Our clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and we haven't built for a handyman or a WA business yet. The rules above are summarised from the official pages linked; we lay out what you tell us about your work and point to those pages rather than give legal advice.
We haven't built a site for a handyman or for a WA business yet. The two below are Adelaide trades whose sites solve the problems a Perth handyman has: showing a long list of jobs clearly, marking out where you'll travel, and collecting enough detail in a quote form to price the work before the visit.
A licensed renovation builder covering Adelaide, the Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu. Its 30 pages include seven service pages, seven service-area pages and a seven-step quote form. A handyman's site would be smaller, but the same split, a page per kind of job and a page per area, suits a business working from Joondalup to Mandurah.
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An Adelaide painting company with 12 service pages, region pages across South Australia and a suburb and postcode search. For a Perth handyman, the postcode search answers the first question a customer has, whether you come to their suburb, without a phone call.
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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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Rates, the job list, the booking form, the suburbs or councils you cover and a line on the work you pass to licensed trades, all on one page.
Our suggestion for Perth handymen with agency and seasonal work
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A home page with rates and the job list, a page for property managers and renters covering security standards and minor modifications, and a seasonal page for fire-notice clean-ups and retic repairs.
$1,499
For a business with a few handymen: a home page, pages for repairs, assembly, outdoor jobs, retic, rentals and fire-season work, and one page for rates and the areas you cover.
It can. Building and Energy says painting work over one thousand dollars within the Building Services Board's jurisdiction needs a registered painting contractor. If you're registered, we put your registration number in the footer of every page. If you're not, we'd describe painting as touch-ups and small patches rather than offering whole-room repaints, and you can check the threshold with Building and Energy. Our Perth painters page covers the advertising rule in more detail.
Use the terms in WA's minimum security standards, because that's how work orders are written: deadlocks on the main entry and other external doors, patio bolts where a deadlock won't fit, and locks or latches on openable windows, louvres included. We'd list each one, say how quickly you can attend a lock that no longer secures a door, and leave the entry light to an electrician. Consumer Protection's rental home security page has the full standards.
That pressure-mounted gates are on WA's list of minor modifications, which a tenant asks for on Form 26, and that the landlord has 14 days to respond. A line on the booking form asking renters whether the request is approved saves a wasted trip. If the gate has to be screwed into a wall, it isn't the pressure-mounted kind on that list, so the renter should check with the landlord first. We'd link the Consumer Protection page rather than spell out the rules.
Only if you already work in the hills or on larger blocks on the fringe, such as around Kalamunda or Armadale. Those two councils' notices set deadlines in November, and owners search for help with gutters and pruning in the weeks before. A page naming the councils you cover and linking their notices is short to put together. If you mostly work in the inner and middle suburbs, a line on your outdoor jobs page is enough.
Yes. Perth stretches a long way north to south, so we'd list the councils or suburbs you take work in, such as Stirling, Bayswater and Vincent, or Rockingham and Kwinana, and say plainly where you stop. A postcode check like the one on the SA Painting Professionals site works too. It saves you calls from the far end of the city.
By phone and email. You send your rates, the jobs you take, your suburbs and photos of finished work; we lay them out and send a draft link you can check from your phone between jobs. You ask for changes until it's right and pay once you approve it. Adelaide is an hour and a half ahead of Perth, or two and a half during South Australian daylight saving, so our working days still overlap for most of yours.
Send us your hourly rate, the jobs you want more of and the parts of Perth you'll travel to. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you've approved it.
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