Websites for builders, electricians, plumbers and other trades across Greater Hobart, from Glenorchy and Kingston to the eastern shore. Customers can see your CBOS licence, check whether you'll come to their side of the river and ring you with one tap.
Greater Hobart is split by the Derwent, spread across several councils, and in plenty of places backs straight onto bush. Customers want three answers quickly: are you licensed for this work, will you come out to them, and have you done a job like theirs before.
Tasmania regulates electrical, plumbing, gas-fitting and building services work as separate kinds of work. If you're a plumber who also does gas fitting, the site shows that you're licensed for both, with the details exactly as they appear on your CBOS licence, so a customer can match what you hold to the job they need doing.
We list your suburbs under plain headings: Hobart and the inner suburbs, Glenorchy and the northern suburbs, Kingborough to the south, the eastern shore in Clarence, and the outer areas towards Brighton, Sorell, the Derwent Valley and the Huon. If you don't cross the river for small jobs, the site says so, which saves both of you a phone call.
If you build in bushfire-prone areas, fit gutter guards or clear around homes, that work gets its own section. Owners on the bush edge may not know what a BAL rating or a hazard management plan involves, and a plain explanation of what you handle brings them to you before they ring anyone else.
Beside your licence number we add a short line telling customers they can check it on CBOS's online Occupational Licensing search. A trade that invites the check comes across as one with nothing to hide, and it costs you nothing.
"Deck rebuild, Lindisfarne" or "Hot water replacement, Kingston" under a photo says what you did and where, in the words a customer would type into Google. Six labelled jobs are more convincing than a gallery of fifty unnamed pictures.
Your number is a button at the top of every page, and the quote form is short enough to fill in on a phone: name, phone, suburb, the job and an optional photo. Nothing else stands between a customer and a call.
Trade and building licensing in Tasmania is run by Consumer, Building and Occupational Services (CBOS). Under the Occupational Licensing Act 2005, electrical work, gas-fitting work, plumbing work and building services work are each regulated, and CBOS's online Occupational Licensing search lets customers look up current licence holders. One difference from NSW and the ACT: the Act once required contractors to show their licence number in advertisements (section 100), but that section was repealed from 1 January 2017, while NSW and the ACT still write the requirement into law. Ask CBOS whether anything else applies to your licence class. Either way, we put your number on the site, because Hobart customers who check before they ring will look for it.
The Greater Hobart Act 2019 covers four councils: Hobart, Glenorchy, Clarence and Kingborough. Clarence takes in the eastern shore of the Derwent, with suburbs such as Bellerive, Lindisfarne and Howrah, and Kingborough runs south through Kingston. Brighton, Sorell, the Derwent Valley and the Huon Valley are separate councils further out. With the river splitting the city, grouping suburbs by council area and side of the Derwent gives customers a quick way to find theirs, and a line for the outer areas you'll travel to for bigger jobs covers the rest.
Tasmania Fire Service says about 98% of Tasmania's land area is designated bushfire-prone, and new development there may need a bushfire hazard management plan and minimum construction standards. The City of Hobart says planning applications in bushfire-prone areas will generally need to show that bushfire risk can be minimised, and that a hazard management plan used to show this must be drafted by an accredited person. Those accredited practitioners are private consultants who inspect the site, set its bushfire attack level (BAL) and prepare the plan. The council has also said ember attack is the leading cause of homes lost in bushfires, and pointed to gutter guards as one way to protect a home. Builders, roofers, gutter installers and landscapers who do this work should describe it in plain terms, and say which parts the owner arranges separately with an accredited practitioner.
We're an Adelaide team, and we work with Tasmanian businesses by phone and email at the same prices as everywhere else. We haven't built a site for a Tasmanian trade yet, so the examples below are South Australian trade sites that deal with the same problem a Hobart site has: a service area spread across several council areas, explained so a customer can find their suburb in seconds.
Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD. These two South Australian trade sites each cover a spread of council areas, the same job a Greater Hobart site has to do.
A licensed renovation builder working across Adelaide, the Adelaide Hills and the Fleurieu. We built 30 pages, including seven service-area pages, seven service pages, five planning guides, a project gallery, an FAQ and a seven-step quote form, so each part of its patch has a page that speaks to it.
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An Adelaide painting company working on homes and businesses across South Australia. Its site has 12 service pages, region pages and a suburb and postcode search, so a customer can type where they live and see straight away whether the painters come to them.
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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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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, licence details, the areas you cover, photos, a quote form and tap-to-call, on a single page. Plenty for a sole trader with a tight patch.
Suits trades working both sides of the river
$899
A home page, a services page and an areas page that splits Hobart, Glenorchy, Kingborough, the eastern shore and the outer councils.
$1,499
For builders and larger crews: separate pages for each service, your bushfire-area work, an about page and a gallery of finished projects.
Yes. We're an Adelaide-based web design team (South Australia) working with businesses Australia-wide by phone and email. Our current clients are in SA, NSW, VIC and QLD; a Hobart trade would be our first in Tasmania, and you'd pay the same prices as anyone else. You send your details and photos, we send a draft you can open on your phone, and you pay only once you approve it. We reply within 24 hours.
The rule in the Occupational Licensing Act that required licence numbers in advertisements was repealed in 2017, so ask CBOS what currently applies to your licence class. We'd still put the number on the site. Customers can look up current licence holders on CBOS's online search, and a visible number tells them you're happy to be checked.
Both kinds of work. Plumbing and gas-fitting are regulated separately in Tasmania, so if you're licensed for both, show the details exactly as they appear on your CBOS licence and list gas work as its own service. Someone after a gas heater or hot water connection can then see straight away that you're licensed for it.
Group the suburbs you cover by area and leave out the ones you don't, then add a line such as "Sorell and the Huon for larger jobs only" if that's how you work. A clear list stops calls you'd turn down. Changing it later is a text change on an existing page, covered by the $30 monthly hosting.
If you build on the bush edge, yes. Owners may not know that a bushfire hazard management plan has to be drafted by an accredited person, or what their block's BAL means for how the house is built. A section that explains what you handle and what they arrange separately, with a finished home in a bushfire-prone area, earns trust before your first site visit.
Tell us your trade, your CBOS licence numbers and which side of the river you work. You'll get a quote, then a draft to check on your phone, and nothing to pay until you approve it.
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