Website Design for Roofers on the Gold Coast

Websites for Gold Coast roofers that explain what happens between the tarp and the permanent repair, give body corporate committees the written quotes they ask for, and show which steel suits a house on the surf or on the Broadwater, with one tap to call from Ormeau to Coolangatta.

What Gold Coast owners and committees look for on a roofer's site

In one week a Gold Coast roofer might quote for a family in the northern estates whose roof has been under a tarp since the last storm, a body corporate committee chasing a leak above a top-floor unit, and someone rebuilding near the beach who wants a roof that will stand up to the salt. Each lands on your site wanting a different answer first.

  • Make-safe and permanent repair, set out as two jobs

    After a big storm the first visit is often a tarp, and the permanent fix can wait on an assessor, a scope of works and materials. Describe both stages: what you do on the night, what the owner should send their insurer, and how you book the repair. Someone living under a tarp mostly wants to know where they are in the queue.

  • A body corporate page with written quotes

    Committees generally have a limit on what they can authorise, and when one applies to the adjudicator for emergency spending above it, Queensland's guidance says it should ideally attach at least two written quotes. A page on how quickly you quote in writing, the inspection photos you supply and how you arrange access through a building manager is written for exactly that reader.

  • Steel matched to the distance from the water

    BlueScope's selection table treats a house near breaking surf differently from one near calm salt water, so a reroof a street back from Mermaid Beach and one beside a Broadwater canal may call for different products. A short table on your reroofing page, in your own words, shows an owner why your quote names the steel it does.

  • Your end of the coast, suburb by suburb

    Ormeau, Pimpama, Coomera, Upper Coomera, Helensvale and Pacific Pines in the north; Southport, Nerang and Robina through the middle; Burleigh Heads to Coolangatta in the south; Mudgeeraba and the valleys behind. We list the suburbs you'll actually drive to, with a tighter list for leak call-outs than for reroofs.

  • Tweed work shown with its NSW licence

    If you cross into Tweed Heads or Banora Point, put your NSW licence category and number beside your QBCC details, each labelled by state, so an owner on either side of the border can check you on the right register.

  • A form that sorts tonight's job from next month's

    The first question is whether water is coming in now. Then the suburb, house or unit, single or double storey, tile or metal, and several photos straight from a phone. You can see from the inbox which enquiries need a call tonight and which can wait for a measure and quote.

Roofing on the Gold Coast: storms, salt, bodies corporate and the border

Queensland's roofing licences apply here exactly as they do in Brisbane: a QBCC licence for building work over $3,300, held in the roof tiling class or the roof and wall cladding class, and a website that shows your licensed name, the number and that you're licensed under the QBCC Act. Our Brisbane roofers page explains what each class covers, with sources. This section is about what changes on the Gold Coast.

On Christmas Day 2023, storms that built from about 4 pm brought damaging to locally destructive winds across the Gold Coast and the Scenic Rim, leaving a damage path around 3 to 4 kilometres wide and up to 50 kilometres long. The strongest gust officially recorded was 106 km/h at the Gold Coast Seaway, though the damage suggested stronger winds in places, and more than 126,000 customers were without power at the peak. By 29 December the Insurance Council had counted 10,716 claims from the Gold Coast region alone and declared a catastrophe. In August 2024 the Member for Theodore told state parliament that the storm had ripped a track through Logan, the Scenic Rim and the northern Gold Coast, that almost eight months on countless houses across the region still had tarps on their roofs, and that there was a shortage of tradies for the bigger jobs. Ex-Tropical Cyclone Alfred followed in March 2025, when the Insurance Council named the Gold Coast among the most affected areas. A roofer's site here has to work for the night of the storm and for the long months of repairs after it.

Salt is the everyday problem. BlueScope's roofing table, updated in March 2023 and offered as general guidance, measures distance from the high-water mark and separates breaking surf from calm marine water. Near breaking surf it recommends standard COLORBOND steel beyond 200 metres, COLORBOND Ultra beyond 100 metres and SUPERDURA stainless steel closer in; near calm marine water it sets no minimum distance for standard COLORBOND or COLORBOND Ultra roofing. It asks to be contacted about severe industrial conditions, and it defines its categories in a technical bulletin, TB-35. On a coast with surf beaches on one side and the Broadwater, the Nerang River and the canals on the other, it's worth a paragraph, with a link to BlueScope rather than a guess about any one street.

Bodies corporate change who rings you. Queensland's storm guidance for community titles schemes says that in a building format plan the body corporate is likely to be responsible for maintaining the roof, while in a standard format plan owners generally repair the parts inside their own lot if insurance doesn't cover the damage. Committees usually have a spending limit; when urgent work goes over it and there's no time for a general meeting, they can apply to the adjudicator for emergency expenditure, preferably with a committee resolution and at least two written quotes. The same guidance warns that getting tradespeople out after severe weather is likely to be a challenge. A roofer who quotes quickly in writing and says so is answering the committee's real problem.

At Coolangatta the state line runs between the twin towns, and roof work in Tweed Heads falls under NSW rules, where roof tiling, roof slating and roof plumbing are separate contractor licence categories once a residential job passes $5,000. The NSW Government says Queensland isn't currently part of automatic mutual recognition, so a QBCC licence doesn't carry across on its own; our Sydney roofers page covers the NSW categories. We're an Adelaide team at Ste 3/110 Hutt St and work with Gold Coast businesses by phone and email. Our Queensland clients include M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas, and we haven't built a site for a Gold Coast roofer yet. You send your licence details, suburbs and roof photos, we send a draft link, and you pay once you approve it.

Sites we've built for businesses that take urgent calls

We haven't built a Gold Coast roofer's site yet. M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas is a licensed Queensland trade business, and Western Sydney Stump Grinding offers a 24/7 emergency response for storm damage, which is the closest thing in our portfolio to a roofer's week after a big cell comes through.

Home page of the M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas website

M.J. Debney Plumbing & Gas

Trades & construction · Queensland

A Queensland plumber and gas fitter whose work spans general plumbing, gas, hot water, bathroom renovations, drainage and backflow. A single page with a six-service overview, 13 project photos that swipe on mobile, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call.

Home page of the Western Sydney Stump Grinding & Tree Removal website

Western Sydney Stump Grinding & Tree Removal

Trades & construction · Western & Greater Sydney

A family-owned tree service in Western Sydney doing stump grinding, removals, trimming and 24/7 emergency work. One page with two quote forms, customer reviews, its service-area list and tap-to-call wherever you scroll.

“Rebuilt two websites for our businesses and saved us a fortune on hosting etc. Nothing is ever a problem, will email back on a Saturday night if need be.”

Lockyer Valley Batteries, Google review

★ 5.0 from 33 Google reviews (opens in a new tab)

Want numbers from a trade site? Western Sydney Stump Grinding has landed at least 62 jobs, about $46,500 of work, from a single-page site we built. Read the case study.

See all 14 recent client sites in our portfolio.

What a Gold Coast roofing website costs

One page

$399

Licence details, the stretch of coast you cover, storm and leak repairs, roof photos and a quote form that takes pictures, on a single page.

Our suggestion for most Gold Coast roofers

Up to 3 pages

$899

A home page, a storm page that explains make-safe and permanent repairs, and a reroofing page covering coastal steel grades and body corporate jobs.

Up to 8 pages

$1,499

A home page plus pages for storm repairs, reroofing, restorations, body corporate work, inspections and Tweed jobs, and an about page with your QBCC and NSW licences.

  • Payment. No deposit. We build your draft first, you ask for as many changes as you like, and you pay once you approve it. If you don't go ahead, you owe nothing.
  • GST. WebCraft Studio isn't registered for GST, so no GST is added.
  • Timing. Most sites are live within 5–10 days of us getting your words and photos; bigger sites (up to 8 pages) take 2–3 weeks.
  • Hosting. After launch, hosting is $30 a month: hosting, security monitoring, backups, email support and unlimited text and image changes on your existing pages. New pages or features are quoted first. No contract, cancel anytime.
  • Domain and email. We register your domain in your name (about $20 a year), connect it to your site and set up your business email.

See full pricing and what each package includes

Questions Gold Coast roofers ask us

Should our site say how long storm repairs are taking?

If you're comfortable with it, yes. After the Christmas 2023 storm some owners were still under tarps months later, and an honest line about your current wait for make-safe work and for permanent repairs saves a lot of calls. It's a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting, so you can update it by email as the backlog moves.

We do a lot of body corporate work. Is a separate page worth it?

Usually. In a building format plan the body corporate is likely to be responsible for the roof, so the person searching is often a committee member or a building manager. A page covering your written quotes, inspection reports, insurance details and access arrangements gives them what they need to put your quote to the committee.

We also work in Tweed Heads. What should the site show?

Your NSW licence category and number beside your QBCC licence, each labelled by state. The NSW Government says Queensland isn't currently in automatic mutual recognition, so check with Building Commission NSW before your site advertises Tweed Heads, Banora Point or Kingscliff. We just publish what you hold.

Should we talk about salt and steel grades?

If it's how you choose products, yes, in your own words and with a link to BlueScope's guidance. Its recommendations change with the distance from breaking surf and treat calm water differently, which matters on a coast with surf beaches and the Broadwater a few kilometres apart. You supply the content and we lay it out as a short table.

Can an Adelaide team build a website for a Gold Coast roofer?

Yes. We're a web design team in Adelaide and work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email; our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send your licence details, suburbs and roof photos, we build the draft, you ask for as many changes as you like, and you pay once you approve it.

Ready to start your Gold Coast roofing website?

Send us your licence details, the part of the coast you cover, whether you cross into Tweed, and a few roof photos. We'll quote first, build the draft, and you pay nothing until you approve it.

We reply within 24 hours. Prefer email? info@webcraftstudio.com.au