Websites for plumbers and gas fitters on the Gold Coast, whether your work is in the new estates around Pimpama and Coomera, the apartment towers of Surfers Paradise or the hinterland behind Mudgeeraba. Licence details where customers look for them, your part of the coast set out plainly, and a call button that’s always a single tap away.
The city stretches from the New South Wales border at Coolangatta to the Albert River beyond Ormeau, with beach suburbs, new estates and rural localities in between. Few plumbers want to cover all of it, so a customer should be able to tell within a few seconds whether you come to their end of the coast.
We set out your suburbs in short groups: the northern estates (Ormeau, Pimpama, Coomera, Helensvale), the central strip (Southport, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach), the southern beaches (Burleigh Heads, Palm Beach, Currumbin, Coolangatta) and the hinterland (Nerang, Mudgeeraba, Tallebudgera). Anything you don’t want to drive to stays off the list.
Surfers Paradise is known for its high-rise apartment buildings, and a job in a tower can involve a property manager or body corporate as well as the resident. The form can ask for the building name, unit number and who’s arranging access, so you know who to call back.
Your QBCC licence name and number, with the statement that you’re licensed under the QBCC Act, go in the footer. If you fit gas, the gas work licence goes beside them, which matters to someone booking a gas hot water swap or a new cooktop.
Fitting solar and heat pump water heaters needs its own endorsement on a Queensland plumber’s licence. If you hold it, the hot water section says so and lists the systems you install, which helps a customer weighing up electric, gas, solar or heat pump.
If you take calls from Tweed Heads or Banora Point, remember that New South Wales moves its clocks forward for summer and Queensland doesn’t. Writing “7am to 5pm, Queensland time” stops a customer across the border ringing an hour before you start.
A split flexi hose under a vanity won’t wait while someone hunts for a contact page. On a phone, your number stays pinned to the top of every page, and the short quote form sits straight after your list of services.
The City of Gold Coast is the second most populous council area in Queensland, after Brisbane, and is split into 14 divisions. Logan sits to its north, the Scenic Rim to the west and Tweed Shire, in New South Wales, to the south. Unlike Brisbane, where Urban Utilities runs water and sewerage, the Gold Coast council provides those services itself.
Plumbing, drainage and gas fitting all need a QBCC licence at any value. Endorsements cover specialist work such as backflow prevention, thermostatic mixing valves, solar and heat pump hot water installation and fire protection, and customers can check a plumber’s licence on the QBCC’s online register. Gas fitters also need a separate occupational licence for gas work from the Chief Gas Examiner through Resources Safety and Health Queensland. For advertising, the QBCC wants the name your licence is held under, the licence number and a statement that you’re licensed under the QBCC Act, and it counts websites and social media pages just as it counts the side of your van. The QBCC logo can’t be used.
Backflow testing follows Queensland’s plumbing laws rather than a Gold Coast rule. Testable backflow prevention devices are registered with the local council, and the owner has to have each one inspected or tested at least once a year by a licensee holding the backflow endorsement, who then reports the results to council. Given the apartment towers and commercial buildings along the coast, a backflow section written for building managers and business owners is worth adding if you hold the endorsement.
The border is the Gold Coast’s own complication. Tweed Heads, Coolangatta’s twin town, is in New South Wales, which runs its own trade licensing through Building Commission NSW. Before your site offers plumbing in Tweed Heads or Banora Point, check with Building Commission NSW what you’d need to work there; until then, we leave those suburbs off. If you do work both sides, state your hours in Queensland time, because NSW runs daylight saving from the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April and Queensland doesn’t.
We’re an Adelaide web design team at Hutt St, working with Queensland businesses by phone and email. You send your services, the suburbs you cover and your licence details, we send a draft link you can check on your phone, and you ask for changes the same way. You pay nothing until you approve it.
M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas is our Queensland plumbing client. Next to it is SA Painting Professionals from Adelaide, whose suburb and postcode search suits a business working a long strip of coast like this one.
A Queensland plumber and gas fitter. The single page runs through six services, then a 13-photo gallery of jobs that swipes on mobile, testimonials, a contact form protected from spam and a call button.
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An Adelaide painting company working across South Australia. We built 12 service pages, region pages and a suburb and postcode search, so customers can type where they live and see whether they’re covered. A Gold Coast plumber could use the same idea from Ormeau to Coolangatta.
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Your services, licence details, suburbs grouped by part of the coast, job photos, a quote form with unit and strata fields, and tap-to-call, on one page.
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For plumbing businesses running several vans: a page for each service line and pages for the northern, central and southern parts of the city.
Only once you’re sure you can take them. Tweed Heads and Banora Point are in New South Wales, which licenses plumbers under its own system, so a Queensland licence on its own may not be enough. Check with Building Commission NSW first. If you’re covered, we’ll add those suburbs under their own heading, with any NSW licence details you hold.
Add “Queensland time” after your hours. From the first Sunday in October to the first Sunday in April, NSW is an hour ahead, so 7am on the Gold Coast is 8am in Tweed Heads. It’s one short line that saves a few confused calls each summer.
Yes. We can add a choice for owner, tenant, property manager or body corporate, fields for the building name and unit number, and an optional photo upload. It stays short enough to fill in on a phone while standing in a wet bathroom.
Only the parts you want to drive to. If most of your work is between Ormeau and Helensvale, lead with those suburbs and add others under a second heading. You can change the list after launch as often as you like, since text changes on existing pages are covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
By phone and email. We’re at Hutt St in Adelaide, and our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas in Queensland. You send your details and photos, we build a draft and send you the link, you ask for as many changes as you like, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Tell us which part of the coast you work, which licences and endorsements you hold, and send a few job photos. We’ll quote first, and you pay nothing until you approve the draft.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au