Websites for Sydney house painters and strata and commercial painting contractors. Before-and-after pairs captioned by suburb, your NSW contractor licence where careful owners look for it, and separate pages for a family repainting a terrace and a committee planning a stairwell repaint.
Painting work in Sydney tends to arrive from three directions: owners of houses, units and terraces; strata committees and the managers who run their buildings; and businesses with a shopfront, office or warehouse. Each wants different proof before picking up the phone, and a site that blurs them leaves all three hunting for the part that applies to them.
Residential painting above the NSW licensing threshold needs a contractor licence, and advertising it brings rules about what the ad must show. We put the licensee's name or registered business name, the licence number and category, and a business phone in the footer of every page, copied from the government's licence check so the two match.
Repainting common property is a capital works expense in NSW strata, so it usually sits in a building's 10-year plan long before anyone asks for quotes. Committee members compare painters on paper. A page with buildings you've done, how you handle access, scaffolding or swing stages, notices to residents and staged work floor by floor, plus your insurance details, gives them something to circulate.
Owners of older houses want to know you'll leave face brick alone, keep plaster mouldings and iron lace crisp, and can suggest a scheme that suits the period. Caption that work by suburb and street type, such as "Victorian terrace, Glebe: full exterior, three-colour scheme", so someone with a similar house sees themselves in it.
The NSW Government's LeadSmart guidance says most Australian homes built before 1970 used lead paint, and recommends hiring someone trained in safe lead paint work to remove it. If that's you, a short section on how you contain the work and clean up answers the question a parent with young children is already asking.
Plenty of owners stall at the colour chart. If you bring swatches to the measure-up, lend sample pots or book a paint maker's colour consultant, say how it works and whether it's included in your price. An owner who hasn't decided on colours yet then has a reason to ring you rather than wait.
A chalky, peeling eave line next to the same eave after preparation and two coats shows an owner exactly what they'd be paying for. We size each pair so it loads quickly over mobile data and stacks neatly on a small screen, with a one-line caption saying what was done and where.
The first question on the form is what kind of property it is: a house, a single unit, or common property for a strata building. The fields after that change to suit, from rooms and storeys to the strata plan number and the manager's contact, with room for photos of the walls.
Licensing. Painting is a licensed trade in NSW, regulated by Building Commission NSW. You need a contractor licence to do, contract for or advertise residential painting work valued at more than five thousand dollars in labour and materials, including GST. Since 2015 a stand-alone contract for interior painting hasn't needed a licence, but that exemption doesn't apply when the paintwork is part of other home building work. Licences are issued to individuals, companies and partnerships, a qualified supervisor certificate covers supervising the work, and the qualifications NSW lists are versions of the Certificate III in Painting and Decorating.
Advertising. The NSW Government's guidance on building trade advertisements says the rules apply online as well as in print, on TV and on radio. Ads need the licensee's name (or a registered business name) and the licence number, with the correct category of work and a business phone number. A price that is only part of the cost can't be shown unless the single, full price is clearly stated too. That's worth reading before you put any prices on your site; we lay out what you give us and point you to the official guidance rather than advise on it.
Strata. If you paint apartment blocks or townhouse complexes, NSW strata law shapes how that work is bought. Each scheme must have a 10-year plan of expected major work paid from its capital works fund, reviewed at least every five years and considered at each AGM, and painting or repainting common property is listed as a capital expense. Repaints are therefore planned and budgeted well ahead, then quoted, compared and approved by a committee. A strata section that shows similar buildings, explains how you work around residents and lists your insurances is the part of your site a committee will read closely.
Heritage streets. Councils set their own heritage rules, so the details change across Sydney. The City of Sydney's repainting guidelines say owners in its heritage conservation areas don't need permission to repaint unless the building is a listed heritage item or in Millers Point or Dawes Point, where development consent or a written exemption is needed. The guidelines ask owners not to paint face brickwork, tiles or stone, not to remove original details such as decorative plasterwork, to consider a paint with a vapour-permeable finish, and to avoid sandblasting or disc sanding when stripping paint. For buildings in pairs and groups they suggest neighbours talk about a uniform colour scheme, and the City publishes suggested colours above awning level for facades along King Street and Enmore Road. The City also warns that older homes, particularly those built before 1970, may contain lead paint, and that paint in good condition may be safer to cover than to remove. If you regularly work in these streets, a few lines saying you check the council's controls before quoting tells owners you know the ground.
We're an Adelaide team on Hutt St and work with Sydney businesses by phone and email, including Western Sydney Stump Grinding and Resolve Forward. You send your licence details, photos and the suburbs you cover; we send a draft link you can open between jobs, and you pay only once you approve it.
Our painting client is SA Painting Professionals in Adelaide, not Sydney, but its site has the split a Sydney contractor needs: commercial and strata painting on a page of its own, separate from interiors and exteriors. Western Sydney Stump Grinding shows how much a single, simple page can carry for a Sydney trade.
An Adelaide company doing interior, exterior, roof, commercial, industrial and specialty painting for homes and businesses. Its site has 12 service pages, with commercial and strata painting on a page apart from interiors and exteriors, plus region pages, a suburb and postcode search, a quote form and tap-to-call.
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A family-owned tree service in Western Sydney. One page carries the services, a service-area list, reviews, two quote forms and tap-to-call, which is close to what a sole-trader painter in the suburbs needs.
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$399
Licence details, before-and-after pairs, the suburbs you cover, a colour-help note, a quote form with photo upload and tap-to-call, all on one page. Suits a painter who mostly repaints houses.
Our suggestion for Sydney painters
$899
A home page for houses and terraces, a strata and commercial page for committees and managers, and a gallery of before-and-after pairs, each with its own quote button.
$1,499
For a company with crews: pages for interiors, exteriors, strata, commercial, roofs and heritage work, a gallery, and an about page with your licence, insurances and memberships.
If you advertise residential painting above the NSW licensing threshold, yes: the NSW Government's advertising guidance covers websites and asks for the licensee's name or registered business name, the licence number with its category, and a business phone. Stand-alone interior painting contracts are exempt from licensing, but if you hold a licence, showing it answers a question before it's asked. We copy the details exactly from the government's licence check.
If you want more of it, yes. A strata committee reads a site differently from a homeowner: it wants past buildings, how you manage access and residents, and your insurances, on one page they can pass around. That's why our suggestion for most Sydney painters is the 3-page site at $899: houses and strata on separate pages.
Yes. Each job gets its before-and-after photos and a caption naming the suburb and the style of house, plus a line on the scheme if you chose it with the owner. If you work in conservation areas, a short note that you check the council's repainting controls before quoting is useful; the City of Sydney, for example, publishes its own repainting guidelines.
Yes. The form takes several photos along with the property type, interior or exterior, storeys and suburb, and it all arrives in your email. For a strata job it can also ask for the strata plan number and the manager's details, so you know who you're dealing with before you ring back.
You can, but read the NSW advertising guidance first: an ad can't show a price that is only part of the cost unless the single, full price is clearly stated as well. The other option is to explain how you quote, such as a measure-up and a written quote within a set time, which avoids the problem.
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 your photos, licence details and suburbs, we build the draft and send you a link, you ask for changes, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your licence details, a handful of before-and-after pairs and the parts of Sydney you work in, and tell us whether strata work is something you want more of. We'll quote, build the draft, and you pay once you approve it.
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