Websites for Hobart house painters and commercial painting contractors, from North Hobart and Sandy Bay across the river to the eastern shore. Tasmania doesn't license painting, so your site leads with details a customer can check, shows heritage repaints that kept a house's character, and gives homes and commercial work a page each.
Many older Hobart houses sit in a heritage precinct or on the state register, spring brings the city its most rain days, and nobody can look a painter up on a licence register because Tasmania doesn't keep one for painting. A useful site answers all three in your own words before the phone rings.
With no painting licence to quote, the footer carries what a careful customer can confirm: your registered business name and ABN exactly as the Australian Business Register shows them, your public liability insurer, and your trade qualification, such as a Certificate III in Painting and Decorating. If you also hold a CBOS licence for other work, its number and class sit beside the services it covers.
Hobart's local heritage precincts cover whole streetscapes in suburbs such as New Town, and the City of Hobart notes that the significance of a contributory building in a precinct can include its colours. A caption such as "Contributory house, New Town precinct: weatherboards and trims repainted in the existing colours" tells an owner in a precinct that you understand why the colours stayed.
The Tasmanian Heritage Council's Works Guidelines tell owners of registered places to avoid painting unpainted brick, stone or clear-finished timber, and point to limewash and mineral silicate paints where a breathable finish helps the building. If you work with those finishes, or you've talked an owner out of painting a sandstone wall, a short section in your own words says so.
Owners weighing a new scheme, particularly near heritage streets, often stall at the colour stage. If you bring sample cards, brush test patches onto the wall or spend an hour on site for a set fee, describe it in one place, with whether the fee comes off the job. Someone not ready for a full quote then has a smaller first step to book.
Paint makers warn against coating when dew or rain is likely before the paint dries, and spring is when Hobart sees the most wet days. One line on the months you book exteriors and what happens in a wet week, with interiors and commercial jobs filling the gaps, saves explaining it on every call. The quote form can ask for a preferred month.
A shop owner in the city or a body corporate repainting a block of units wants insurance details, how you stage work around tenants and trading hours, and whether you'll arrange the council permit a scaffold or scissor lift on a Hobart street needs. A separate page keeps those answers out of the way of a family choosing a bedroom colour.
Inside, outside or both; house, unit or commercial; the suburb and council (Hobart, Glenorchy, Clarence or Kingborough); roughly when the building went up; whether it's heritage listed or in a precinct; and photos of each wall or room. A "not sure" option keeps it quick, and the build year tells you whether to plan for old lead paint.
No painting licence. Tasmania doesn't issue a licence for painting. CBOS licenses electrical, plumbing and gas-fitting work, along with building services providers such as builders, building designers and building surveyors, and painting has no licence class of its own. If you take on more than painting, such as replacing rotten weatherboards or re-cladding a wall, ask CBOS whether that work needs a builder's licence before your site offers it. Our page for Hobart tradies covers how licence numbers are shown when a trade does hold one.
Places on the Tasmanian Heritage Register. Carrying out works at a registered place without heritage approval is an offence. The Heritage Council's Works Guidelines (version 2, October 2025) list repainting previously painted surfaces as eligible for a minor works approval, known as a certificate of exemption before 1 January 2025, where the colours are compatible with the place's character, the original types of materials and methods are used, such as limewash or lime-based render, and no new texture coating goes on. A colour change out of keeping with the place, or painting masonry or clear-finished joinery that has never been painted, needs a discretionary permit instead. The guidelines also caution against stark black, grey and white schemes on historic buildings, and against waterproof coatings that trap moisture in brick or stone.
Local heritage places and precincts. Hobart now works under the Tasmanian Planning Scheme, whose Local Historic Heritage Code exempts repainting or re-rendering an exterior surface that has already been painted or rendered, in a colour similar to the existing. Painting a surface for the first time, or repainting in a clearly different colour, isn't covered by that exemption. The City of Hobart says a planning permit is usually needed for work on a listed property or in a precinct, though some maintenance is exempt, and advises owners to check with the council before starting. It classes buildings in a precinct as contributory, non-contributory or neutral, and expects contributory ones to keep their significant features. Glenorchy, Clarence and Kingborough are separate councils, so a job in Moonah, Bellerive or Kingston is checked with that council rather than the City of Hobart.
Weather and old paint. Bureau of Meteorology records for Hobart (Ellerslie Road) give an average July minimum of 4.7°C and only 1.3 days a year at or below 0°C, so cold is rarely what stops an exterior. Rain is: October averages 9.4 days with at least 1 mm, against 4.9 in February, and morning humidity sits near 80 per cent in June and July. Wattyl says its Solagard exterior paint can be applied at temperatures as low as 5°C, but not when dew or rain is likely during drying. Older houses bring lead as well: the Australian Government's Lead Alert guide says homes built before 1970 are most at risk, though later ones can have lead paint too. A sentence on how you test for and contain old paint answers a question owners of period houses tend to ask.
Commercial jobs, and how we work. Placing scaffolding, a scissor lift or a cherry picker on a City of Hobart street generally calls for a council permit, and occupation permits ask for a certificate of currency for at least $10 million of public liability cover plus a traffic management plan prepared under the Tasmanian guide to traffic control for works on roads. A commercial page that says you arrange this tells a building owner you've done it before. We're an Adelaide team on Hutt St and work with Hobart painters by phone and email, at the same prices as anywhere else. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, so the examples below aren't Tasmanian.
We haven't built a site for a Tasmanian painter yet. SA Painting Professionals is our painting client in Adelaide, and M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas in Queensland shows how a project gallery works on a single page.
Interior, exterior, roof, commercial, industrial and specialty painting for homes and businesses across South Australia. We built 12 detailed service pages, region pages, a suburb and postcode search, an online quote form and tap-to-call throughout. For Hobart, the regions would become the four councils of greater Hobart, with a page for heritage repaints.
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A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. The single page carries a six-service overview, a 13-photo project gallery that swipes on a phone, client testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call, a layout that suits a painter's before-and-after pairs.
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Business details and insurer, before-and-after pairs captioned by suburb, a note on when you book exteriors and a quote form with photo upload, all on one page.
Our suggestion for most Hobart painters
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A home page for houses, a page for heritage repaints and colour consults, and a page for commercial and body corporate work, each with its own gallery.
$1,499
For a painting crew: a home page, then pages for interiors, exteriors, heritage work, commercial and body corporate jobs, and the eastern shore and Kingborough, plus a gallery and an about page.
Not for painting alone, because Tasmania doesn't license painters. We show your registered business name, ABN, insurer and trade qualification instead. If you hold a CBOS licence for other work, its number goes beside that work. Should Tasmania ever bring in a painting licence, adding the number is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
That you work to whatever approval the owner holds. Repainting previously painted surfaces in compatible colours, with the original kinds of materials, is work the Heritage Council can give a minor works approval for, while painting bare brick or stone needs a discretionary permit. We link to Heritage Tasmania and leave the approval itself with the owner.
Caption each job with the precinct and whether the colours stayed the same or changed with the council's approval. The planning scheme's heritage code exempts repainting an already-painted surface in a similar colour, so a run of like-for-like repaints shows you work within it. Whether a new colour needs a permit is for the owner to check with their council.
Yes. The first question splits homes from commercial work. For commercial, the form asks for the address, how many storeys, whether access is needed from the street, and the tenants or trading hours you'd work around, plus photos. It all arrives by email, so you can allow for a council permit in your price.
By phone and email. We're an Adelaide (South Australia) web design team working with businesses Australia-wide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send your own words, photos and the suburbs you cover; we arrange them into a draft, you ask for as many changes as you like, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your business details and insurer, a set of before-and-after pairs and the suburbs you cover, and tell us whether heritage repaints or commercial jobs are the work you want more of. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay once you approve it.
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