Storm and hail damage, leaks, tile and metal roof repairs — by licensed QBCC roofers who work Brisbane's storm season every summer. Tell us what your roof is doing and you'll get a written scope, not a guess from the driveway.
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The jobs that come up most. Pick what's closest to your situation — or just tell us what's happening and we'll work it out.
Leaks, broken tiles, lifted sheeting and the damage you can't see from the ground.
Read more →Hail, wind and debris damage — and the insurance paperwork that goes with it.
Read more →Tracing a leak to its actual source rather than patching where the stain is.
Read more →Terracotta and concrete tile — broken tiles, ridge capping and valley irons.
Read more →Corrugated iron and Colorbond — rust, fasteners and lifted sheeting.
Read more →Guttering, downpipes and stormwater — and the licensing trap that catches people.
Read more →Clean, re-bed, repoint and coat — what it does and what it doesn't.
Read more →Full replacement — tile to Colorbond, and what actually drives the price.
Read more →Written reports for insurance claims, pre-purchase and post-storm.
Read more →What roof work actually costs in Brisbane, and what moves the number.
Read more →An inspection and written report is $150 to $400 and usually comes off the job. Most repairs land between $300 and $3,500. A full re-roof runs $15,000 to $35,000.
Three things account for most of the roof work in this city, and two of them arrive between November and March.
Brisbane sits in one of Australia's most active hail corridors, and the summer storm season from November through March is when most roofs here get damaged. Hail cracks and shatters concrete and terracotta tiles, and dents metal sheeting badly enough to break the coating even where it doesn't puncture. The damage is often invisible from the ground and only shows up as a leak weeks later, which is why a post-storm inspection matters more than waiting to see a stain.
A large share of Brisbane's older housing is elevated timber with corrugated iron, much of it long past its original coating life. These roofs fail differently to tile: rust starts at fixings and laps, screws back out as the timber battens move, and the sheeting lifts in high wind rather than breaking. Replacing fasteners and re-sealing laps is often the whole repair, and it is far cheaper than a re-roof if it's caught before rust takes the sheet.
More roofing work in Brisbane goes through an insurance claim than in most Australian cities. That changes what a homeowner needs: photographs taken before anything is touched, a written report that distinguishes storm damage from pre-existing wear, and a licensed contractor whose paperwork an assessor will accept. A cheap unlicensed repair can invalidate the claim it was meant to fix.
Two of those three arrive between November and March, which makes roofing here a seasonal trade. The quiet months are when you get the best roofers and the best prices — and the worst time to need one is the week after a hailstorm.
Licensed roofers you can check on the QBCC register before they set foot up there.
Roofing over $3,300 needs a QBCC licence, and guttering needs one at any value. Every roofer referred here holds one, and you can verify it on the public register before they set foot on the property.
Brisbane's roofing year runs on the November-to-March storm season. The roofers here work it every summer and know what an assessor will and won't accept.
A terracotta roof in Bardon and a corrugated iron Queenslander in Paddington fail in completely different ways. Say which you have and it goes to someone who works on it.
Especially where insurance is involved. You should get photographs and a scope you can hand to an assessor.
Roofing is licensed work in Queensland, and the rules have one trap in them worth knowing before you get quotes: the dollar threshold that applies to roof work does not apply to guttering.
Approval is required for:
Approval is not required for:
The QBCC keeps a free public register — search the licence number before work starts. It matters more on roofing than most trades: unlicensed building work is not covered by the Queensland Home Warranty Scheme, and an insurer assessing a storm claim can decline it if the repair was done by someone not licensed to do it. Source: Brisbane City Council. Over $3,300 for roof work — and at ANY value for guttering, because that's classified as drainage. Most people have that backwards.
Full permit rules explainedCoverage runs across greater Brisbane — the inner suburbs, out west through Kenmore and Ipswich, north to Redcliffe and North Lakes, and south through Mount Gravatt and Logan to the bayside.
Yes for almost anything worth having. A QBCC licence is required for building work valued over $3,300, which covers most repairs and every restoration or re-roof. Guttering and downpipes connected to stormwater are classified as drainage and need a licensed person at any value — there's no dollar threshold on that at all. Roof tiling, roof and wall cladding, and roof plumbing are three separate licence classes, so check the roofer holds the right one for your job.
Often you can't from the ground, which is the problem. Hail cracks tiles without dislodging them and dents metal sheeting in ways that break the protective coating without puncturing it. Both leak later, sometimes months later. After a significant hailstorm the sensible move is an inspection and a written report, not waiting for a ceiling stain — by then the claim is harder to attribute to the storm.
Water rarely enters where it appears. It travels along battens, rafters and sarking before it drops, so the entry point is often metres uphill of the stain. That's why leak tracing is charged as its own job — finding it is genuinely most of the work, and anyone quoting a leak repair without going up to look is guessing.
It's cleaning, re-bedding and repointing the ridge capping, replacing broken tiles and then coating. The re-bedding and repointing is real work that genuinely extends the roof's life. The coating is largely cosmetic and sealing. It is not a structural repair, so if battens or timbers are gone, restoration will not fix that and you should be told so.
Usually yes if the damage is significant, but photograph everything before anything is touched or tarped. Insurers routinely ask whether the roof was already deteriorated, and a pre-existing rust or wear problem is generally not covered. Get a written report that separates storm damage from age, and use a licensed contractor — unlicensed work can give an insurer grounds to decline.
Tile suits the existing look of most established Brisbane suburbs and handles heat well. Colorbond is lighter, faster to install, sheds hail impact better and doesn't need repointing. Changing from tile to metal reduces the load on the frame, which is usually fine, but the battens normally have to be replaced and that's a real part of the cost.
On older Queenslanders the roof sheeting is often sound but the fasteners have backed out or the rubber washers have perished, which lets water in at every screw. Replacing the fasteners across the roof costs a fraction of re-roofing and solves a surprising number of leaks. Worth asking about before accepting a replacement quote.
Yes — coverage runs across greater Brisbane from Redcliffe and North Lakes in the north, out to Ipswich and Springfield in the west, and south through Logan to Cleveland and the bay. Those sit in different councils to Brisbane City, but QBCC licensing is set at state level and doesn't change across the boundary.