Websites for electricians, plumbers, builders and other ACT trades, with your licence details set out the way the ACT asks, suburbs grouped by district from Gungahlin to Tuggeranong, and a number customers can ring in one tap.
Canberra customers can look you up on Access Canberra's public registers before they ring, they want to know whether you'll come to their district, and since new gas connections were blocked in December 2023, some are planning how to take their home off gas. A good site answers those three things on the first screen or close to it.
The ACT's licensing law makes it an offence to advertise construction services without your details: the name as it appears on your licence, the licence number and, for a company, its ACN. We put all three in the footer of every page, worded exactly as the register shows them, so nothing on the site contradicts what a customer finds when they look you up.
Canberra's planning districts give you a ready-made way to group suburbs. Listing the ones you cover under Belconnen, Gungahlin, the Inner North, Woden, Weston Creek, Molonglo Valley, the Inner South and Tuggeranong is easier to scan than a long run of suburb names, and it lets you say plainly that you don't cross town for small jobs.
Someone replacing a gas hot water system may well search for the job itself, such as "heat pump hot water Canberra" or "gas to electric conversion", rather than just "plumber". If you install heat pump hot water, reverse-cycle systems, induction cooktop circuits or switchboard upgrades, each gets a clear heading, and on a 3-page or 8-page site a page of its own.
Queanbeyan, Googong and Jerrabomberra are in NSW. If you work there, we list them apart from your ACT districts, with the NSW licence details that apply, so a customer on either side of the border can see you're set up for their job.
Carpenters and bricklayers don't currently need an ACT licence, so a customer has nothing to look up. Your site makes up for that with your ABN, insurance, trade qualifications and captioned photos of finished work, and adding a licence number later is simple if the rules change.
Estates still being released, such as Whitlam in the Molonglo Valley, Jacka and Kenny in Gungahlin, and Lawson and Ginninderry in Belconnen, bring owners who need fencing, landscaping, paving, extra circuits and shelving soon after handover. A short section written for them, with photos from those streets, reaches people a general services list won't.
Construction licences in the ACT are issued under the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004. Builders, electricians, plumbers, drainers, gasfitters, gas appliance workers and building surveyors all need one, and applications go through Access Canberra. Section 83 of the Act makes it an offence to advertise a construction service without your details: the name on your licence, the licence number and, for a corporation, its ACN. The Act's own examples of advertising include vehicle signage, business cards and directory listings, and there's no reason to treat your website any differently. Access Canberra's public registers now show expired, suspended and cancelled licences and any disciplinary action, so a customer who checks will see whether your site matches the record.
Since 8 December 2023, new gas network connections have been blocked in the ACT's residential, commercial and community facility zones. Homes that already have gas can keep using it, but new houses go in all-electric, and the ACT Government's stated aim is a net zero emissions city by 2045. For electricians, plumbers and air-conditioning installers, that brings jobs such as heat pump hot water, reverse-cycle heating and electrical upgrades. A site that names those jobs clearly, with photos of finished installs, gives a customer looking for one of them somewhere to land.
The ACT's planning system is organised into nine districts, each with its own district strategy. Besides East Canberra, they are Belconnen, Gungahlin, Molonglo Valley, Inner North and City, Inner South, Woden, Weston Creek and Tuggeranong. The Suburban Land Agency lists Whitlam, Jacka, Kenny and Lawson as current releases, along with the Ginninderry joint venture on Belconnen's western edge. A Tuggeranong plumber and a Gungahlin electrician have quite different service areas, so the site should name the districts you cover for everyday work rather than claim all of Canberra.
Queanbeyan, Googong and Jerrabomberra sit across the border in NSW, in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area. Work there falls under NSW licensing, and NSW's advertising rules also ask for the licensee's name and licence number. Some ACT licences can be recognised in NSW (the NSW Government's East Coast Electricians scheme lists the ACT unrestricted electrician's licence, for example), but check how your own trade is treated with Building Commission NSW before your site offers work on that side of the border.
We're an Adelaide team and work with Canberra businesses by phone and email. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, so the trade examples below come from NSW and Queensland. You send your licence details, services, districts and photos, we send a draft you can open on your phone, and you pay once you approve it.
We don't have a Canberra trade client yet. The closest examples are a plumbing and gas business in Queensland and an excavation business in the Bega Valley, NSW.
A licensed Queensland plumber and gas fitter covering hot water, gas, drainage, backflow and bathroom renovations. We built a single page with a six-service overview, a 13-photo project gallery that swipes on a phone, testimonials, a protected contact form and tap-to-call. Hot water and gas sit as separate services, the layout a Canberra plumber doing heat pump conversions would want.
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Bobcat and excavator operators doing structural landscaping, licensed pool building and general earthworks in the Bega Valley. The one-page site has three service sections, a 42-photo gallery and a testimonial carousel, which suits trades whose finished work does the selling.
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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
Services, ACT licence details, the districts you cover, photos, a quote form and tap-to-call on one page. Enough for a sole trader with one main service.
Our pick if you do electrification work
$899
A home page, a page for heat pump and gas-to-electric work (or your main specialty), and a page for your districts and any cross-border suburbs.
$1,499
For businesses with several service lines: a page each for hot water, heating and cooling, electrical upgrades and repairs, plus an about page and a new-suburb page.
Yes. We're based in Adelaide, South Australia, and work with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD, and we'd be glad to add the ACT. Nothing needs a meeting: you send your details and photos, we build a draft you can check on your phone, and you pay only once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
Under section 83 of the Construction Occupations (Licensing) Act 2004, advertising a construction service without your details is an offence. Those details are the name as it appears on your licence, your licence number and, for a corporation, its ACN. We put them in the footer of every page and copy them from the Access Canberra register so they match exactly.
Not at the moment: carpenters and bricklayers don't currently need an ACT construction licence. The ACT Government has consulted on extending licensing to trades such as carpentry, bricklaying, concreting and waterproofing, but no decision has been made, and it says any changes aren't expected before 2027. Until then, show your ABN, insurance and qualifications. If a licence becomes required, adding the number is a text change covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
Only if you're set up to work there. Those suburbs are in NSW, so NSW licensing applies, and NSW's advertising rules ask for the licensee's name and licence number too. Check with Building Commission NSW how your ACT licence is treated, then we'll list those suburbs in their own group with the right details beside them.
If it's work you want more of, usually yes. New gas connections have been blocked in ACT residential zones since December 2023, so households replacing gas hot water or heating are looking for someone who does that specific job. A page that explains what you install, shows finished jobs and names the districts you cover answers that directly. It needs the 3-page or 8-page site.
Send us your licence details, the districts you cover and a few photos of finished jobs. We reply within 24 hours, then build your draft, and you only pay once you're happy with it.
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