Worth five minutes before you accept a quote, because on roofing it affects both your warranty and your insurance.
No obligation. Takes 30 seconds.
Brisbane Roof Repairs connects Brisbane and greater Brisbane property owners with qualified, connects Brisbane property owners with licensed local roofers for licensing. Tell us the roof type and what you're seeing and we'll match it to a licensed roofer who covers your suburb. Written scope and firm price after an inspection.
A QBCC licence is required for building work valued over $3,300, including materials and labour. In practice that covers essentially every roof repair worth doing, and every restoration and re-roof without exception.
Below that figure, general building work can be done unlicensed — but very little roofing lands there.
Drainage work requires a licence at ANY value. Guttering, downpipes and anything connected to stormwater is drainage.
So a $400 gutter replacement legally requires a licensed person while a $3,000 tile repair might not. This catches people out constantly, and it's the single most useful thing on this page.
**Roof tiling** covers cutting and fixing tiles, battens, flashing, sarking and skylights. **Roof and wall cladding** covers metal sheet roofing. **Roof plumbing** covers flashings, box gutters, stormwater guttering, downpipes and valley iron.
A licence in one is not a licence in another. If your job spans roof and gutter, ask which classes they hold.
Unlicensed building work is not covered by the Queensland Home Warranty Scheme. And an insurer assessing a storm claim can decline it where the repair was carried out by someone not licensed to do it.
The QBCC register is free and public. Search the licence number before work starts — after a hailstorm, when unfamiliar operators are door-knocking, it is genuinely worth the two minutes.
Brisbane.
Where this job typically sits. Access is usually a bigger cost driver than size.
| Job | Indicative price | What moves it |
|---|---|---|
| Roof inspection and written report | $150 – $400 | Often credited against the work. Worth paying for on its own if you're making a claim. |
| Leak trace and repair | $300 – $900 | Finding it is most of the job. A leak rarely enters where it appears inside. |
| Replace broken/slipped tiles | $250 – $650 | Per section. Matching an older terracotta profile can add to it. |
| Ridge capping re-bed and repoint | $1,200 – $3,500 | The most common tile-roof repair. Priced by lineal metre of ridge. |
| Storm and hail damage repair | $800 – $8,000 | Enormous range — depends whether it's a few tiles or a whole elevation. |
| Gutter replacement | $45 – $90 per metre | Licensed drainage work at any value. Includes brackets and fall correction. |
| Downpipe replacement | $150 – $400 each | More where it connects to underground stormwater. |
| Metal roof screw replacement / re-fastening | $800 – $3,000 | Very common on older Queenslanders. Much cheaper than re-roofing. |
| Roof restoration — tile | $3,500 – $9,000 | Clean, re-bed, repoint and coat. Cosmetic plus sealing, not structural. |
| Full re-roof — tile to Colorbond | $15,000 – $35,000 | Depends on size, pitch, access and whether battens need replacing. |
| Skylight or whirlybird install | $400 – $1,200 | Each, fitted and flashed. |
| Emergency tarp / make safe | $300 – $900 | After hours during storm season. Buys time until a proper repair. |
Prices are indicative only. What a roof costs depends on its type, its pitch, access, how much of it is affected and whether the damage runs into the battens or ceiling. You get a firm written price after an inspection.
Leaks, broken tiles, lifted sheeting and the damage you can't see from the ground.
Hail, wind and debris damage — and the insurance paperwork that goes with it.
Tracing a leak to its actual source rather than patching where the stain is.
Terracotta and concrete tile — broken tiles, ridge capping and valley irons.
Corrugated iron and Colorbond — rust, fasteners and lifted sheeting.
Clean, re-bed, repoint and coat — what it does and what it doesn't.
Tell us the suburb and the roof type and we'll get it to the right person.
Call 0468 185 003