Websites for Brisbane house painters and painting contractors, whether your work is pre-war timber houses, post-war brick or unit blocks. Your QBCC licence shown the way the QBCC asks for it, jobs captioned by suburb and house era, and a quote form that takes photos of the walls.
Before they ring, Brisbane owners tend to check two things: that you hold a QBCC licence, and that you've painted a house like theirs. Everything else on the site should make the quote easy to ask for.
The QBCC treats your website as an advertisement. We put the name you're licensed under, your licence number and a line saying you're licensed under the QBCC Act in the footer of every page, so it's there wherever someone lands. If you trade under a business name, both appear together, matching what you show on Facebook and in online directories.
Brisbane City Council sorts traditional timber houses into Victorian, Federation and Interwar periods, each with its own typical colours. A caption such as "Interwar bungalow, Wilston: red oxide walls, cream joinery, dark green gutters" tells the owner of a similar house you've done one before. Newer brick and rendered homes get captions too, by suburb and finish.
The QBCC says more defects are reported in Queensland for internal paint application than for any other type of building work. A short section on your final walkthrough, how you note touch-ups and when you come back to do them answers the worry of an owner who has read about poor paint jobs.
Weatherboards, VJ walls, lattice and iron roofs each need different preparation, and on a house painted before 1970 the older layers may contain lead. Say how you scrape, wash, fill and prime, and how you keep dust contained and clean up on an older house. If you avoid disc sanders on early paint layers, say that as well.
A body corporate committee or a property manager wants different proof from a homeowner: buildings you've painted, how residents are kept informed, how the work is staged and which insurances you hold. On a 3-page or larger site that gets a page of its own, with its own quote button.
Interior or exterior, how many storeys, roughly when the house was built, and whether it sits in City Plan's Heritage or Traditional building character overlay, which owners can look up themselves on City Plan online. Photos of the walls come through with the request, straight to your email.
Licensing. The QBCC issues two painting licence classes: painting and decorating, which includes cement render up to 8 mm thick, and the same class excluding render. A licence is needed for painting work valued at more than $3,300, and comes as a contractor, nominee supervisor or site supervisor licence. The QBCC's advertising rules cover websites, social media pages, online directories and vehicle signage: show your name as licensed, your licence number and that you're licensed under the QBCC Act, legibly and reasonably prominently. The QBCC says an ad showing only a trading name is likely to be non-compliant, and its logo can't be used on your own material at all, though linking to its website is fine. Someone without a licence who advertises smaller jobs needs a value statement instead, such as "Only work valued at $3,300 or less".
Defects. In May 2026 the QBCC published a homeowner article on painting defects. Drawing on its March 2025 Industry Snapshot, it says internal paint application tops the list of defective building work reported in Queensland, with 1,875 defects across 315 cases. It urges owners to use a licensed painter even below the threshold, to check the licence on the QBCC's register, to include walkthroughs in the contract and to keep photos and emails, and says owners generally have 12 months from completion to lodge a complaint about non-structural defects. A site that explains your handover answers the questions that article raises. We describe your process; for the rules, we link to the QBCC.
Timber houses. Brisbane City Council's 2025 guide, Painting traditional timber houses, sets out colour schemes for Victorian (1840s–1890s), Federation (1890s–1910s) and Interwar (1915–1940) houses, naming colours by their AS 2700 codes. It says local heritage places are protected under the Heritage overlay of City Plan 2014, that works with more than a minor impact on a heritage place's cultural significance need development approval, and that minor works may be eligible for an exemption certificate. For owners hiring a painter, it suggests a specification that records the property's Heritage or Character overlay details, a detailed colour scheme and which parts are to be painted, stained or left unfinished. It also says not to strip paint with disc sanders, orbital sanders or sandblasting, except on painted cast iron. If this is your kind of work, the site can say you'll write the specification with the owner.
Character streets and old paint. Council's character properties are mainly buildings from before the end of 1946, with special considerations for those built before 1911, and owners can check an address on City Plan online. Many of these houses carry decades of paint. Queensland Health says paints with high levels of lead were used in many Australian houses before 1970, and that paint in poor condition, such as peeling or flaking paint, is likely to present a health risk. A painter who prepares these houses carefully has every reason to explain how on the website.
Brisbane City had 1,375,301 residents at 30 June 2025 on the state statistician's preliminary figures, the largest council area in Australia by population, so the site should name the part you cover, whether that's the northside, the southside, the western suburbs or the bayside, along with any Logan, Moreton Bay or Ipswich work. We're an Adelaide team at Hutt St and work with Brisbane businesses by phone and email; our Queensland clients include a dance school at Thorneside on Brisbane's bayside and a licensed Queensland plumber. You send photos, licence details and suburbs, and we send back a draft link.
Our painting client is SA Painting Professionals in Adelaide; we haven't built for a Brisbane painter yet. Its site has the structure a growing Brisbane painting business would want, and Queensland Dance & Performing Arts, on Brisbane's bayside, shows how we work with a Queensland client from Adelaide.
Interior, exterior, roof, commercial, industrial and specialty painting across South Australia. We built 12 service pages, so a homeowner after a repaint and a business after a warehouse coating each land on a page meant for them, plus region pages, a suburb and postcode search, a quote form and tap-to-call.
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A dance school at Thorneside teaching ballet, contemporary and circus arts, with an adult ballet program and a full-time diploma. Its 12 pages include a weekly timetable, FAQs, an online enrolment form and a filterable photo gallery, the same kind of gallery we'd use to sort a painter's jobs into interiors, exteriors and timber houses.
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Your QBCC licence details, a run of before-and-after pairs, the suburbs you cover, how you finish a job, and a quote form with photo upload and tap-to-call, all on one page.
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A home page for houses, a page for unit blocks and commercial work, and a gallery sorted by house era and job type, each with a quote button.
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For a business with crews: separate pages for interiors, exteriors, timber and character houses, roofs, bodies corporate and commercial jobs, a gallery, and an about page with licence and insurance details.
The QBCC lists websites and social media pages among the things it treats as advertising, and asks for your licensed name, licence number and a statement that you're licensed under the QBCC Act. We put those in the footer of every page and again on the contact page, copied from the QBCC's licence search so they match exactly.
If you hold a licence, show it anyway; the QBCC urges owners to use a licensed painter even for smaller jobs. If you don't hold one, the QBCC expects a value statement in your advertising, such as "Only work valued at $3,300 or less". We put whichever applies where it's easy to read and link to the QBCC's advertising page so you can check the wording yourself.
Yes. Each job can carry the house's period, the suburb and the scheme, with AS 2700 colour names if you've recorded them, which is how Brisbane City Council's timber house guide describes colours. If you help owners find original colours with paint scrapes, that deserves a short section of its own.
It can ask whether the property is in City Plan's Heritage or Traditional building character overlay, with a link to City Plan online so the owner can look it up. That helps you price the job and write the specification. The site shouldn't tell owners whether they need approval; that's for them to confirm with council.
By phone and email. We're a web design team in Adelaide, South Australia, working with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send photos, your licence details and the suburbs you want work in; we build the draft and send a link; you ask for as many changes as you like and pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your QBCC licence details, a few before-and-after pairs and the parts of Brisbane you work in, and tell us whether timber houses or unit blocks are the work you want more of. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay once you approve it.
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