Websites for Melbourne wall and floor tilers that make clear whether you tile only or take on whole bathrooms, tell apartment owners what their owners corporation will want to know, and sort your photos so a St Kilda unit, a Richmond terrace and a new house in Tarneit can each find a job like theirs.
Victoria gives tilers no licence number to print in the footer, so a Melbourne customer judges you on other evidence: the jobs you show, how you describe the work that ends up hidden under the tiles, and whether your questions fit their kind of building. A tower apartment in Southbank, a low-rise block of units in Elwood and a house in Clyde North each raise different questions, and the site should be ready for all three.
Consumer Affairs Victoria lists wall and floor tiling among the single trades that need no BPC registration when they're the only work on the job, and it puts no dollar limit on that list. A bathroom where you strip out, re-sheet, waterproof, tile and bring in the plumber combines several skills, and once a combined job passes $10,000 registration applies. Your services list should draw that line clearly, so nobody reads an offer of full renovations into a tiling-only business. If you are registered, your name and number go in the footer.
With no state number to quote, the footer carries your ABN, the name of your public liability insurer and, if you hold it, the Certificate III in Wall and Floor Tiling (CPC31320). Membership of an industry association you actually belong to can sit alongside. A builder vetting you before a job, or an owner weighing three quotes, will look for exactly those details and notice when they aren't there.
Where an owners corporation hasn't made its own rule on the point, Victoria's model rules require owners to notify it of renovations that could affect common property, and to get its written approval before damaging or altering common property. Say what you can hand over for that: your insurance certificate, your working hours, and how you protect stairwells, lifts and foyers while boxes of tiles and bags of adhesive come through. It saves the owner a round of emails with the building manager.
House, townhouse or apartment first; for an apartment, which floor and whether there's a lift or only stairs. Then the room, rough square metres, whether old tiles come up, who is supplying the new ones and roughly when the place was built, with a photo upload at the end. Before you ring back, you know whether it's three flights of stairs in Elwood or a booked lift in a CBD tower.
Verandah floors re-laid, a front path matched to the original pattern, a fireplace hearth reset, an old bathroom redone with period-style wall tiles. People who own older houses in Yarra, Glen Eira or Port Phillip want to see that you've handled a house like theirs. Keep these photos together and caption each one with the house type and suburb, for example “Verandah floor re-laid, Victorian terrace, Richmond”.
In Casey, Melton, Cardinia and Wyndham, about nine in ten occupied homes at the 2021 Census were separate houses. If your work out there comes through builders, a short page for site supervisors helps: the stages you take on (floors, wet areas, splashbacks, alfresco), the suburbs you'll drive to and how much notice you need, with a direct number at the top.
Registration. Victoria doesn't license tilers. Consumer Affairs Victoria says a job involving only wall and floor tiling needs neither registration with the Building and Plumbing Commission (BPC) nor a major domestic building contract, and it attaches no dollar limit to either exemption, though it recommends a written contract for all building work. Registration is needed for domestic work over $10,000 that uses a combination of skills, and Consumer Affairs Victoria's own example is plastering together with painting. Waterproofing isn't named on that single-trade list at all, so a tiler who sells complete bathrooms, or packages waterproofing with the tiling, should ask the BPC how their mix of work is treated before the website advertises it. Under section 169H of the Building Act, a registered practitioner's advertisements and written statements offering domestic building work must state the registered name and registration number, which our page for Melbourne builders covers in more detail. Contract law is moving as well: Consumer Affairs Victoria says the Domestic Building Contracts Amendment Act 2025 will take effect by 1 December 2026, so we keep contract details off your pages and link to the regulator.
Where the apartments are. At the 2021 Census, 277,512 of Greater Melbourne's 1.78 million occupied private dwellings were flats or apartments, about 16 per cent, which is roughly half Greater Sydney's share of 31 per cent. Another 16 per cent were semi-detached, row or terrace houses and townhouses, and two in three were separate houses. The apartments sit in a handful of councils: 86 per cent of occupied homes in the City of Melbourne, 67 per cent in Port Phillip, 53 per cent in Stonnington and 49 per cent in Yarra, against less than 1 per cent in Casey, Cardinia and Melton. The buildings differ as well. About three in four City of Melbourne apartments are in blocks of nine storeys or more, while in Port Phillip and Stonnington more than half are in blocks of three storeys or fewer, the kind that makes up more than nine in ten apartments in Elwood and St Kilda East. In Yarra, 37.5 per cent of occupied homes were semi-detached, row or terrace houses or townhouses, the highest share of any Victorian council. A tiler working those suburbs is more often in terraces, townhouses and small blocks than in towers, and the gallery should show it.
Owners corporation rules. Victoria's model rules, set out in the Owners Corporations Regulations 2018, apply wherever an owners corporation hasn't made its own rule on the same item. Three of them bear on a tiling job. Rule 4.3 says an owner or occupier must not damage or alter common property, or a structure forming part of it, without the owners corporation's written approval, which can come with conditions. Rule 5.3 asks owners to notify the owners corporation of renovations that may affect common property or other residents' enjoyment of it. Rule 6.2 bars unreasonable noise that interferes with others' use of common property, unless the owners corporation has given written permission. Common property is whatever the plan of subdivision says it is, and Consumer Affairs Victoria's examples include walls. So before an apartment bathroom comes apart, the owner may need to give notice or get written approval. Your site can list what you supply for that and leave each building's own rules to its manager.
Older homes and heritage streets. Victoria's asbestos website says a home built or renovated before 1990 likely contains asbestos, and names wall linings behind and beneath tiles in bathrooms, kitchens and laundries, bath and shower surrounds, vinyl floor tiles and the backing on sheet flooring among the places it turns up. It tells builders and trades to assume it is present until proven otherwise and to use a licensed removalist, who must notify WorkSafe before removal starts. A strip-out page should say who handles that part of the job. Out the front, Boroondara gives every property in a Heritage Overlay a grading of significant, contributory or non-contributory, which affects how permit applications are assessed, and Glen Eira says a planning permit is usually needed for external buildings and works to a place in a Heritage Overlay, but not for repairs or maintenance that leave a heritage place looking the same and use the same details, specifications and materials. Re-laying a verandah in matching tiles and replacing it with a new design can land on different sides of that line, so the site should send owners to VicPlan or their council instead of answering for them.
Working with us from Adelaide. WebCraft Studio is a team on Hutt St in Adelaide, and Melbourne tilers work with us by phone and email. The Victorian business in our portfolio is a Melbourne coaching practice, and our portfolio doesn't include a tiler's site yet, so your pages come from what you send: photos of finished jobs, the suburbs you'll travel to, your insurance and qualification details and your own account of how you waterproof. We arrange it, add links to the official guidance and send a draft to check on your phone. Questions of law and compliance stay with you and the regulator.
There's no tiling site in our portfolio yet. The closest are an Adelaide renovation builder with a large, structured site and a Queensland plumbing business whose single page includes a 13-photo project gallery. The review below comes from SA Tiling Pro Pty Ltd, a tiling company, about working with us.
Licensed South Australian builder whose renovation work covers bathrooms, kitchens and laundries. The 30-page site has seven service pages, seven service-area pages, five planning guides, a project gallery and a seven-step quote form. A Melbourne tiling business running crews across several regions could use the area pages and the stepped form on a smaller scale.
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Queensland plumbing and gas business that also renovates bathrooms. One page holds an overview of six services, thirteen project photos a visitor can swipe through on a phone, client testimonials and a protected form, which fits a tiler working alone who wants the photos to carry the pitch.
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“…Salem walked us through everything, gave us a fixed quote so we knew exactly what we were paying, and turned around the build faster than we thought possible.”
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Your services with tiling-only or full bathrooms made clear, a captioned gallery, insurance and qualification details, your suburbs and a quote form that asks about floors and lifts.
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A home page, a bathrooms page covering your waterproofing steps and strip-outs, and a page for apartment owners and builders setting out what you supply.
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Separate pages for bathrooms, floors, period restoration, outdoor and pool areas, apartment work, builder subcontracting and the regions of Melbourne you cover.
Not for tiling alone. Consumer Affairs Victoria lists wall and floor tiling among the single-trade jobs that don't need BPC registration, with no dollar limit on that list. If you also take on jobs over $10,000 that combine trades, which can include full bathroom renovations, registration generally applies, and section 169H of the Building Act then requires your registered name and number on any advertisement or written statement offering domestic building work. Check the Consumer Affairs Victoria guidance against the work you do before the site goes live.
That their building's rules come first, and that where the owners corporation hasn't made its own rule, Victoria's model rules require owners to notify it of renovations that could affect common property and to get written approval before damaging or altering common property. Then list what you can provide, such as your insurance certificate, hours and how you protect shared areas. Link to the model rules page and leave the building's own rules to its manager.
If you strip out bathrooms in homes built before 1990, yes. Victoria's asbestos website says those homes likely contain it, including in wall linings behind tiles and in vinyl floor tiles, and that only a laboratory test confirms it. Say in your own words what you do when you suspect it and who removes it, and link to the state's guidance rather than offering safety advice on the page.
We'd leave that out. Whether a planning permit is needed depends on the property's overlay and on the work itself. Glen Eira's guidance, for one, says repairs that keep a heritage place's appearance and use the same details and materials don't need a permit, while other works under the overlay usually do. Show your restoration jobs, say you can work to plans the council has approved, and send owners to VicPlan to check their address.
Yes. We can build online booking into the site, quoted with the rest of the job, or link a booking tool you already use, such as Calendly. Some tilers would rather have the quote form and photos first, then a phone call to set the visit, which cuts down on wasted drives across town.
By phone and email. We're a web design team in Adelaide working with businesses around Australia, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. You send photos, suburbs and your details, we build a draft for you to check on your phone, you ask for as many changes as you need, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send photos of a few finished bathrooms, floors or verandahs, the parts of Melbourne you'll travel to, and whether you tile only or take on whole bathrooms. We'll quote and build the draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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