Websites for Melbourne plumbers and gasfitters: one tap to ring you about a burst flexi hose tonight, and plain sections on hot water, gas and drains for the customer comparing quotes for next month.
Greater Melbourne covers almost 10,000 square kilometres and 31 council areas, so the first thing a customer wants to know is whether you'll come to their street. The second is who holds the licence, and in Victoria that's always a person, not a company.
The Building and Plumbing Commission (BPC) accredits individual plumbers, not businesses. So the footer shows the licensed plumber by name, the licence number and the classes it covers, such as water supply, sanitary, drainage and gasfitting. A customer who looks you up on the BPC register then finds the same details your site gives.
From 1 March 2027, a gas hot water system replaced in an existing Victorian home has to be replaced with an electric one. If you fit heat pumps or electric-boosted solar, a hot water section that explains the change in plain words reaches the homeowner reading up before the old unit gives out.
Two-yearly gas safety checks now apply to every Victorian rental with gas appliances. If you hold Type A appliance servicing and take on these checks, a short section telling agents what your report covers and how to send a job through does more than one line buried in a services list.
"Melbourne-wide" tells a customer in Craigieburn nothing about whether you'll turn up. We list the suburbs you actually cover under plain headings, such as inner north, western suburbs, south-east, the eastern suburbs and the Mornington Peninsula, and you decide where each line is drawn.
Your number sits as a button at the top of each page on a phone. Beside it, a form with four boxes: name, mobile, suburb and what's gone wrong, plus room for a photo of the leak or the label on the old hot water unit.
Some gas and drain jobs at any price, and any Victorian plumbing job over $750 in total, need a compliance certificate within five days of completion. One sentence saying you issue and lodge one for every job that needs it tells careful homeowners and agents what paperwork to expect.
Since 1 July 2025, plumbing in Victoria has been regulated by the Building and Plumbing Commission, which took over the work of the Victorian Building Authority (some systems, such as VBA360, still carry the old name). Each class of plumbing work has two levels. A registered plumber can carry out the work; a licensed plumber can also supervise apprentices and registered plumbers, issue compliance certificates, and must hold the required insurance. Accreditation is only granted to individuals: the BPC doesn't register or license plumbing companies. It tells consumers not to rely only on advertising, business cards or quotes, and to check a plumber on its register, which can be searched by practitioner name, business name, licence number, location or type of work. We make that check easy by showing the licensed plumber's name, number and classes on every page, so what a customer reads on your site matches what the register shows.
Compliance certificates are worth a short answer on your site. A licensed plumber must issue one when the total value of the work, counting materials, appliances, labour and GST, exceeds $750. Some work needs one whatever it costs: installing, relocating or replacing a Type A gas appliance, installing, modifying or relocating consumer gas piping, and work on below-ground sanitary drains. The customer receives it within five days of the work being finished, and it's lodged with the BPC within the same five days. Where it applies, the certificate includes an eleven-digit consent number and confirms an as-laid plan has been lodged with the relevant water authority. Complex gas installations and Type B appliances are overseen by Energy Safe Victoria instead.
Gas work is changing. From 1 January 2027, new homes and knock-down rebuilds can't be connected to gas except in specific circumstances, and from 1 March 2027 gas hot water systems can't be installed in existing homes: a unit that breaks and can't be repaired must be replaced with an electric alternative. Existing gas heaters and cooktops don't have to be replaced, and existing gas appliances can still be maintained and repaired. A split system heat pump water heater, the kind with refrigerant pipework between two units, needs refrigeration accreditation to install (the BPC has a restricted class for exactly this work), connecting it to the water service needs water supply, and decommissioning the old gas unit needs gasfitting. If you hold those classes, your hot water page should say so.
Rentals have changed too. From 13 October 2026, two-yearly gas safety checks apply to all Victorian rentals with gas appliances, not only agreements signed since March 2021, and in a property with gas, a separate gas safety check is needed within six months before any draughtproofing work starts. The check must be done by a gasfitter registered or licensed in Type A appliance servicing, and the record has to show that gasfitter's name, business details and licence or registration number. On the commercial side, Yarra Valley Water requires testable backflow devices at the meter to be tested every 12 months by an accredited backflow prevention plumber, so if you hold the backflow prevention class, list it.
Water and sewer services across Melbourne are split between three corporations: Greater Western Water (from the CBD out to Werribee and north to the Macedon Ranges), South East Water (Port Melbourne to Portsea and east to Pakenham) and Yarra Valley Water (much of the north and east). That matters for consents and as-laid plans, but customers search by suburb, so your area list should name suburbs, grouped by side of town. WebCraft Studio is based on Hutt St in Adelaide, and Victorian clients deal with us by phone and email. You send your licence details, suburbs and job photos; we reply with a draft link that opens on your phone, and changes go back and forth the same way.
We don't have a Melbourne plumbing client to show you. Our plumbing and gas client is in Queensland, and SA Painting Professionals in Adelaide shows how we set out a large service area by region, which suits a city with 31 council areas.
A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter. One page covers six services, including hot water, gas and backflow, with a 13-photo gallery that swipes on a phone, client testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.
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An Adelaide painting company working across South Australia. We built 12 service pages, region pages, a suburb and postcode search, a quote form and tap-to-call. Grouping suburbs by region works the same way for a plumber covering more than one side of Melbourne.
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Services, the licence-holder's number and classes, suburbs grouped by side of town, job photos, a quote form and tap-to-call, on a single page.
Our pick for Melbourne plumbers
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A home page plus two more, for example hot water and heat pumps, gas work and rental safety checks, or the suburbs you cover.
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For crews with several service lines: blocked drains, gas, hot water, backflow testing and agent maintenance, each with its own page, plus pages for the sides of Melbourne you work.
Yes. WebCraft Studio is an Adelaide (South Australia) team, and we build sites for businesses around Australia by phone and email. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and our plumbing and gas client is in Queensland. You send your services, licence details, suburbs and a few photos, we build a draft you can open on your phone, you ask for any changes, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
The licensed plumber's name, licence number and the classes it covers. The BPC accredits individuals rather than companies, and customers can search its register by a person's name, business name or licence number, so the details on your site should match what they find there. If more than one licensed plumber works in the business, list the people responsible for the work. If you do rental gas checks, mention Type A appliance servicing, because that's the class those checks require.
If you install electric hot water, a short, accurate explanation helps: from 1 March 2027, a gas hot water system in an existing home that needs replacing has to be replaced with an electric one, while existing units can still be repaired. Send us the wording you're happy with and we'll set it out as a section on a one-page site, or as its own page on a 3-page or 8-page site. Updating it later is a text change on an existing page, covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
We don't build booking systems. A simpler option is a short request form for agents and landlords, asking for the property address, who to contact for access and when the last check was done. It arrives in your email like any other enquiry, and your number stays one tap away for agents who'd rather ring.
Usually not. On a one-page site, the suburbs you cover grouped under headings such as inner west or south-east are enough. Separate area pages make sense on an 8-page site when the work differs by area, for example maintenance contracts on one side of town and residential call-outs on the other. Either way, we only list suburbs you'd send a van to for a standard job.
Send us the licence number and classes, the suburbs you cover and a few job photos if you have them. We'll reply with a quote, then build your draft before you pay anything.
We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au