Tilers in Gold Coast

Their tiling licence covers it, as long as they're waterproofing the area they're also tiling. QBCC's Wall and Floor Tiling class (Queensland Building and Construction Commission Regulation 2018, sch 2 pt 59 s 2(3)) lists 'apply waterproofing for wall and floor tiling' as part of its own scope of work — confirmed directly against QBCC's published scope-of-work page for the class — so a licensed tiler waterproofing their own tiling job is working inside their own licence, not borrowing someone else's. The separate Waterproofing class (sch 2 pt 60) is for a contractor who only waterproofs, without also tiling. Either way, ask who's doing the membrane and under what licence number, and check it on the QBCC register before work starts.

Yours. Under Queensland's building-format-plan rules, a lot's boundary is drawn through the centre of its floor, wall and ceiling, and everything inside that — including waterproof membranes in wet areas and shower trays — is the lot owner's to maintain, per Queensland Government's own guidance on building-format-plan maintenance. It isn't treated as a roofing membrane, so the body corporate exemption that covers some other building elements doesn't apply here. If your bathroom membrane fails and water reaches the unit below, you're the one who repairs both the membrane and, generally, the damage it caused — which is exactly why the waterproofing line on a bathroom quote isn't the place to shop for a discount.

Often the body corporate's, which is the opposite of how bathroom waterproofing works. Even though a balcony floor is usually part of the lot, Queensland Government's guidance on building-format-plan maintenance confirms the body corporate stays responsible for the balcony's roofing membrane, along with its structural slab, joists and balustrade, whenever that balcony protects a lot or common property underneath — because a protective membrane like that is treated as a roofing membrane, not an ordinary lot fixture. It's worth reporting to your body corporate manager before you book a tiler and pay for it yourself; by-laws can draw the exact line differently between schemes, so confirm against your own scheme's records rather than assuming either way.

Because they're exposed to a harsher combination than any inland or indoor surface faces: direct UV, wind-driven salt spray on the coastal strip, and, around a pool, chlorinated or salt-treated water. That combination bleaches and degrades standard grout and sealant faster than an equivalent indoor job, on top of the humidity load that already stresses grout across South East Queensland's wet season. Outdoor and pool-surround tiling also needs a slip rating suited to a wet, bare-foot area, which an indoor floor tile usually isn't specified for. A tiler quoting balcony or pool-surround work should be specifying UV-stable, appropriately slip-rated tile and a sealant rated for the exposure, not simply the indoor product moved outside.

Yes. A QBCC licence is issued for Queensland, not for a particular city, so a Brisbane-based tiler is licensed to work on the Gold Coast under the same licence number, in the same class, with no separate registration needed. Real tiling and waterproofing businesses we checked while researching this page's prices — S&S Remedial and Superior Tiling among them — openly operate across both Brisbane and the Gold Coast on one licence. What matters isn't where the business is based; it's whether the licence is current and its class actually covers the job, which you check on the same statewide QBCC register either way.