Websites for Sydney wall and floor tilers that set out your NSW licence categories the way the advertising rules ask, explain your waterproofing in plain words, and give apartment owners what they need before their strata scheme will approve a tiled floor or a new bathroom.
Plenty of Sydney tiling jobs come with someone else's sign-off attached: a builder who wants your licence before booking you, an owners corporation that has to vote on a new floor, a homeowner worried about a shower leaking into the unit below. The site should answer those people as well as the one scrolling through photos.
NSW licenses Wall and Floor Tiling and Waterproofing as two separate categories. The tiling category's scope includes waterproofing wet areas to get them ready for tiling, while Waterproofing has its own licence and qualification. If you hold both, show both. The footer shows the name on the licence, each category with its number and a business phone, so a builder can match them against the NSW licence check in a minute.
Under the NSW strata guidance, a new tiled floor in an apartment is a minor renovation that needs the owners corporation's approval, and the owner is expected to supply the work dates and times, the tradespeople's details and qualifications, and an acoustic certificate for the flooring. A short section listing what you can hand over for that application, such as your licence, insurance certificate and the underlay system you lay, makes you the easy tiler to book.
House or apartment first, and for an apartment, whether strata approval is already in hand. Then the room, rough square metres, walls tiled to the ceiling or part height, old tiles to come up, who is buying the tiles and roughly when the home was built, with photo uploads. Those answers separate a quick floor job from a bathroom that has to wait for a general meeting.
If you pull out old bathrooms, say what happens when you strike wall sheeting that might contain asbestos: whether you hold a removal licence yourself or bring in a licensed removalist, and whether that's priced separately. It's a fair question for anyone with a pre-1990 bathroom, and better answered on the site than at the front door.
Membrane brand and type, the standard you work to (AS 3740 covers domestic wet areas), how long it cures before tiles go on, whether you flood test, and the certificate the owner receives at the end. Set out as a short numbered list in your own words, it shows the part of the job that disappears once the grout is in.
“Ensuite walls and floor, 1990s unit, Chatswood” or “Large-format porcelain living area, Kellyville” tells a reader the type of building as well as the area. Someone in an apartment wants to see other apartments; someone in a new house wants to see big open floors. Sorting the gallery that way lets each of them find their own kind of job.
Licensing. In NSW, wall and floor tiling is licensed trade work. A contractor licence is needed to carry out, advertise or contract for residential tiling worth more than $5,000 in labour and materials, GST included, and unlicensed work can draw fines of $22,000 for an individual and $110,000 for a company. The NSW Government describes the work as attaching tiles of fired clay, moulded concrete, ceramics or natural material to the inside or outside surfaces of a building, and includes cork, linoleum, rubber and thermoplastic tiles, mosaics, preparing surfaces and making minor repairs before tiling (but not renewing or replacing them), inserting expansion joints, and waterproofing wet areas to get them ready for tiling. The current qualification is CPC31320 Certificate III in Wall and Floor Tiling. Waterproofing is licensed as a category in its own right, covering any protective treatment that stops water or moisture getting into a home or stops water escaping from a wet area such as a shower, and its current qualification is CPC31420 Certificate III in Construction Waterproofing. Anyone can look up a licence's categories, status, expiry date and conditions on the NSW Government's Verify Licence check.
Advertising, contracts and warranties. NSW's rules on building trade advertisements cover the internet as well as print, television and radio. An ad should carry the licensee's name or a registered business name, the licence number with the right category of work and a business phone number, and it can't quote a price that is only part of the cost unless the single full price is clearly stated too. Jobs priced over $5,000 including GST need a written contract and a copy of the Consumer Building Guide before signing; the deposit is capped at 10 percent, and on work over $20,000 the contractor can't ask for a deposit or other payment until Home Building Compensation cover is in place and the owner has its certificate. Our page for Sydney builders covers those money rules in more detail. After handover, statutory warranties apply: legal action to enforce them has to start within 6 years for a major defect and 2 years for any other defect, and Building Commission NSW lists waterproofing among its examples of major defects, alongside load-bearing parts such as floors and walls, and fire safety systems. That is part of why careful owners ask which membrane you use and what paperwork they'll get.
Apartments and strata approval. The NSW Government's strata renovation guidance sorts work into three groups. Cosmetic work, such as laying carpet, needs no approval. Wood, tile or other hard flooring is a minor renovation: it needs a vote with more than 50 percent of votes cast in favour, or approval from the strata committee where a by-law allows it, and the owner provides plans with dates and times, the tradespeople's details and qualifications, and an acoustic certificate for the floor. Bathroom renovations and changes that require waterproofing count as major renovations, which only a special resolution at an annual or other general meeting can approve, with no more than 25 percent of the value of votes cast against. So an apartment bathroom can't go ahead until the owners corporation has met and voted, and a tiler who explains that timing and lists the documents they can supply is simpler to plan around. By-laws differ from one scheme to the next, so the site should send owners to their own strata manager for the specifics.
Where the strata jobs are. At the 2021 Census, about 562,000 of Greater Sydney's 1.83 million occupied homes, roughly three in ten, were flats or apartments. The mix shifts sharply across the city. In the Waverley, Randwick and Canada Bay council areas more than half of occupied homes were apartments; in Penrith and Campbelltown fewer than one in ten were, and close to four in five were separate houses. A tiler working mostly around Waverley and Randwick is likely to deal with strata approvals often, while one based around Penrith or Campbelltown will mostly be working in houses. The suburbs you list, the photos you lead with and the questions on your quote form should make your own mix plain, so apartment owners and new-home owners can each tell you've done their kind of job.
Older homes, and how we work. SafeWork NSW notes that asbestos can be found when walls come out of buildings built or renovated before 1990. A Class B licence is needed to remove more than 10 m² of non-friable asbestos, and removalists must notify SafeWork NSW when they carry out removal work. We present what you tell us about your strip-outs and link to the official pages; we don't give safety, planning or legal advice. Our team works from Hutt St in Adelaide, so Sydney tilers deal with us by phone and email: you send your licence details, a set of finished jobs and the areas you cover, and we send back a draft link to check on your phone between jobs.
Our portfolio doesn't show a tiling site yet. The two nearest are an Adelaide renovation builder whose bathroom work has its own service page, and a Western Sydney tree service whose one-page site is set up to turn a phone search into a quote request. The review below is from SA Tiling Pro Pty Ltd, a tiling company, about working with us.
A licensed South Australian builder covering kitchens, bathrooms, laundries, extensions and new homes. Its 30 pages include seven service pages, seven area pages, a project gallery, five planning guides and a seven-step quote form. A tiler splitting bathrooms, floors and apartment work could follow the same pattern across three to eight pages.
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A family-run tree service working across Western and Greater Sydney. One page holds the services, the areas covered, customer reviews, two quote forms and tap-to-call buttons, which is close to what a sole tiler needs: show the work, show where you travel, take the enquiry.
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“…gave us a fixed quote so we knew exactly what we were paying, and turned around the build faster than we thought possible.”
★ 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.
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$399
Licence categories, your waterproofing steps, a gallery, the areas you cover and a quote form that asks house or apartment, together on one page.
Our suggestion for most Sydney tilers
$899
A home page, a bathrooms and waterproofing page with its own photos, and a page for apartment owners setting out what you supply for strata approval.
$1,499
For tiling businesses with several crews: separate pages for bathrooms, floors, outdoor and pool tiling, apartment work, builder subcontracting and waterproofing.
Your name or registered business name, the licence number with its category (Wall and Floor Tiling, plus Waterproofing if you hold it) and a business phone. We put them in the footer of every page, because the NSW rules on building trade advertising cover internet advertising as well as print. Check the wording against the NSW guidance and your licence before the site goes live.
Take care with it. The NSW guidance says an ad can't state a price that is only part of the cost unless the single full price is also clearly stated, and a square-metre rate that leaves out waterproofing, removal or tile supply could read that way. Another approach is to explain how you quote: photos and measurements through the form, a look at the room, then a written price. If you want figures on the page, check them against the guidance first.
That a tiled floor is a minor renovation needing the owners corporation's approval, that a bathroom or any change that requires waterproofing needs a special resolution at a general meeting, and what you can give them for the application, such as licence and insurance details, your working hours and the acoustic underlay you lay. Link to the NSW strata renovation guidance and leave by-law questions to their strata manager.
We'd describe your process rather than lean on the law. NSW statutory warranties give owners 6 years for major defects, and Building Commission NSW gives waterproofing as an example, but those warranties apply whether you mention them or not. A plain account of your membrane, curing time and certificate tells a reader more, with a link to the official page for anyone who wants the legal detail.
A tiler working alone, mostly on floors or for builders, is usually well served by the one-page site at $399. If you do bathrooms in apartments, the 3-page site at $899 gives waterproofing and strata work a page each. The 8-page site at $1,499 suits a business with several crews and separate lines of work such as pools, outdoor areas and commercial jobs.
Yes. We're a web design team based in Adelaide, South Australia, working with businesses around Australia by phone and email, with current clients in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, including a tree service in Western Sydney. You send the details and photos, we build a draft you can check on your phone, and you pay once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Send us your licence number and categories, photos of a few finished bathrooms or floors, and the parts of Sydney you'll travel to. We'll quote and build the draft, and you pay only once you've approved it.
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