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Roofers in Sydney

Every business below is checked against the QBCC licence register and ranked by quantified Google-review themes — never by who paid.

Showing all 16 licensed roofers across SydneyUpdated 2026-08-31 · Register NSW Trades Register

Based in North St Marys

Quality of work · 9Response time · 6Professional & friendly · 6

At Apex Sydney Roofing Pty Ltd, customers most often describe restoration & coating work, with tiled roofing and roof replacement also coming up in the analysed reviews (as of 28 August 2026). The same tradesperson is named repeatedly across the sample — this reads as the owner doing the work rather than a crew. The company's NSW Trades Register licence, covering the Roof Tiler class, was confirmed current on 31 August 2026. Rated 4.8 stars across 17 Google reviews.

Based in Minchinbury

Professional & friendly · 44Quality of work · 38Response time · 30

Roof replacement is what customers talk about most at Attractive Roofing Solutions Pty Ltd, with tiled roofing a frequent second (reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026). The same tradesperson keeps being named in the feedback, which points to the owner doing the work hands-on. A good share of the sampled reviews came in over the past year. The NSW Trades Register confirmed the Minchinbury roofer's licence in two classes on 31 August 2026: Roof Plumber and Roof Tiler. 5 stars across 81 Google reviews.

Based in Glenfield

Professional & friendly · 9Quality of work · 8Reliable & trustworthy · 5

Construx Solutions, a Glenfield roofer, carries a 5-star rating across 16 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026. Customers most often discuss roof repairs and leak repairs, with roof replacement and gutters & downpipes also coming up. A single tradesperson is named repeatedly, pointing to an owner-run business. The NSW Trades Register confirmed a current Roof Plumber licence on 31 August 2026.

Based in Silverwater

Quality of work · 11Professional & friendly · 9Communication · 6

In Silverwater, EME Roofing is a roofer whose customers most often talk about roof repairs, with tiled roofing and insurance & storm damage also coming up. The owner wrote back to 16 of the 23 customers who left feedback, and the oldest review on EME Roofing's Google profile is from May 2023. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds 4.5 stars across 26 Google reviews. The NSW Trades Register listed its Roof Plumber and Roof Tiler classes as current when checked on 31 August 2026.

Based in Brookvale

Professional & friendly · 13Quality of work · 10Response time · 9

Roof replacement is what customers talk about most at Heritage Roofing Group Pty Ltd, with gutters & downpipes and new builds & extensions also coming up. The people who hired them name several different people, office staff among them. The owner writes back to the vast majority of customers who leave feedback, and the oldest Google review on record lands in October 2015, so the review history spans more than a decade. The NSW Trades Register confirmed the Brookvale business's licence as current in four classes on 31 August 2026: Carpenter, Roof Slater, Roof Tiler and Roof Plumber. 4.7 stars across 31 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Smeaton Grange

Professional & friendly · 11Quality of work · 11Response time · 7

Customers at Industry Metal Roofing Pty Ltd bring up metal roofing more than any other job, with roof replacement and gutters & downpipes also mentioned in the sample analysed as of 28 August 2026. The same tradesperson is named over and over, suggesting the owner handles the work personally. Google reviews for the Smeaton Grange roofer go back to November 2019, over six years of feedback. The NSW Trades Register confirmed a current Roof Plumber licence on 31 August 2026. 5 stars across 22 Google reviews.

Based in Parramatta

Value & pricing · 10Professional & friendly · 9Response time · 8

Customers most often bring up roof repairs at MYF Roofing, with gutters & downpipes and restoration & coating also coming up regularly. The same tradesperson is named in over half of the analysed feedback, which reads as an owner-operator rather than a crew. The Parramatta roofer holds a current NSW Trades Register licence in two classes — Roof Tiler and Roof Slater — confirmed on 31 August 2026. As of 28 August 2026, the business has a 5-star rating across 21 Google reviews, with the earliest review dating from August 2024.

Based in Cranebrook

Quality of work · 46Professional & friendly · 43Response time · 33

Roof replacement is what customers talk about most at Platinum Roofing Specialists, and the people who hired them keep naming the same tradesperson — the work reads as hands-on, done by the owner rather than a crew. The first Google review of the Cranebrook roofer was posted in February 2022, so its review record spans more than four years. The owner writes back to some of the customers who leave feedback, based on the 74 reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026. The NSW Trades Register listed the business as holding a current Roof Tiler licence when checked on 31 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 75 Google reviews.

Based in Belmore

Quality of work · 21Professional & friendly · 17Response time · 7

Customers at Ranger Roofing keep naming the same tradesperson in most of the analysed reviews, which suggests the owner does the work themselves rather than delegating to a crew. Roof repairs lead what customers describe, with roof replacement and tiled roofing also coming up. Every customer who left feedback in the sample heard back from the owner. The first Google review of Ranger Roofing was posted in May 2018, so its review history spans more than eight years. When checked on 31 August 2026, the NSW Trades Register showed a current licence covering two classes — Roof Slater and Roof Plumber. The business carries 5 stars across 34 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Homebush West

Professional & friendly · 21Quality of work · 21Communication · 16

Roof repairs are what customers at Roofing Portal bring up most often, and leak repairs also come up in the 55 Google reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026. Several different names appear in the feedback, one of them on the phones, which suggests a team rather than a solo operator. The owner writes back to some of the customers who leave feedback. The NSW Trades Register lists the Homebush West business with a current licence in seven classes — Carpenter, Fencer, Painter, Roof Plumber, Roof Slater, Roof Tiler, Minor Maintenance/cleaning — confirmed on 31 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 55 Google reviews.

Based in Illawong

Professional & friendly · 26Quality of work · 24Response time · 19

Roof replacement is the job customers talk about most at Sanders Roofing Pty Ltd, with gutters & downpipes and tiled roofing also coming up in the sample (reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026). The earliest Google review of the Illawong roofer was posted in August 2020, so the business has been collecting customer feedback for more than six years. Nearly half of the sampled reviews arrived in the past twelve months, and the owner writes back to some of the customers who leave feedback. The NSW Trades Register confirmed the business's licence as current in two classes — Roof Plumber and Roof Tiler — on 31 August 2026. 4.7 stars across 49 Google reviews.

Based in Artarmon

Professional & friendly · 5Response time · 2Quality of work · 2

The owner of Strata Roofing Pty Ltd. responds to many customers who leave feedback, and the earliest Google review for the Artarmon roofer lands in July 2015 — a decade of feedback on record. The NSW Trades Register entry, confirmed current on 31 August 2026, lists Roof Tiler, Roof Plumber, and Waterproofing Technician. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds 3.2 stars across 16 Google reviews, with roof repairs, leak repairs, and metal roofing each described once in the analysed sample.

Based in Queenscliff

Professional & friendly · 55Quality of work · 51Response time · 45

Gutters & downpipes lead the conversation at Sydney Gutter Repair, with roof repairs close behind. Customers mention the tradespeople by name and also whoever runs the office, suggesting a team rather than a solo operator. The owner replies to the vast majority of customers who leave feedback, and the oldest review on the company's Google profile is from March 2020. The NSW Trades Register listed the Queenscliff roofer as holding a current Roof Plumber licence when checked on 31 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 109 Google reviews, as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Banksmeadow

Professional & friendly · 5Quality of work · 5Communication · 3

Customers of Sydney Roofing Company Pty Ltd keep singling out the same tradesperson — 9 of the 12 Google reviews analysed point to one person, which reads as an owner-run operation. The earliest review on record lands in October 2018, so the business has been collecting feedback for over seven years. Roof replacement, roof repairs, and tiled roofing each come up in three of the twelve reviews, with gutters & downpipes mentioned once. The NSW Trades Register confirmed the Banksmeadow roofer's licence as current in two classes — Roof Slater and Roof Tiler — on 31 August 2026. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds a 5-star rating across 12 Google reviews.

Based in Casula

Reliable & trustworthy · 10Professional & friendly · 9Quality of work · 7

Customers most often bring up roof repairs at Top Lay Roofing, with roof replacement coming up next in the reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026. The people who hired them describe a team with someone handling the office, and the owner writes back to many of the customers who leave feedback. The NSW Trades Register listed the Casula business as holding a current Roof Plumber licence when checked on 31 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 33 Google reviews.

Based in Alexandria

Professional & friendly · 16Quality of work · 16Response time · 11

On 31 August 2026 the NSW Trades Register showed VJ Roofing Services Pty Ltd holding a current Roof Plumber licence. The Alexandria business carries 4.6 stars across 33 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026. Customers most often bring up roof repairs, and leak repairs also come up in the sample.

About roofers in Sydney

Sydney's long rainfall record sits at Observatory Hill: 1211.1 mm a year across 99.5 days of 1 mm or more, measured from 1858 until the station closed in 2020. Guttering, downpipes and flashings carry that water, and NSW licenses the work by covering material rather than by one blanket ticket. Roof plumbing, roof tiling and roof slating are all trade categories of residential building work under the Home Building Regulation 2014, so each needs a contractor licence once labour and materials pass $5,000. The any-value rule that governs plumbing and drainage is written not to reach roof plumbing.

Two Sydney conditions reach a roofing quote before any measurement does. The first is statutory: councils map bush fire prone land and the RFS Commissioner certifies those maps under s 10.3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, with a property's status shown on its s 10.7 planning certificate. Section 4.14 of the same Act stops a council approving development on that land unless the application complies with Planning for Bush Fire Protection, which turns on a Bush Fire Attack Level; complying development is confined to BAL Low, 12.5, 19 and 29. The second is where the roof stops being yours. The Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 obliges an owners corporation to properly maintain and keep the common property in a state of good and serviceable repair (s 106), and the statutory Common Property Memorandum — which a scheme takes on by by-law rather than automatically — lists guttering and membranes on the owners corporation's side of that duty.

Typical prices in Sydney

Ranges reflect quotes observed locally — not national averages, not advertised "from" prices.

ServiceTypical range (A$)
Roof leak, flashing or broken-tile repair
Airtasker's Sydney roof-repair category (fetched 31 August 2026): $200–$800, median $355, on 19 Sydney reviews — a thin sample, so the band leans on the individual completed tasks listed beside it: roof flashing fixed in Darlington $500, a roof leak repaired in Botany $150, a tiled roof repair in Sydney $500, roof sheeting reattached in Darlinghurst $357, storm damage in Newtown $450. The same category page also carries vehicle roof-lining jobs (a Ford Territory at $120, a Porsche at $600); those are not building work and were excluded before reading the spread. Geo-template check: Melbourne's page for the same category reads $220–$475, median $299, on 32 reviews — a higher floor and a much lower ceiling than Sydney's, so the two are not one table scaled.
A$200A$800
Gutter repair or replacing a gutter section
Taken from the Sydney gutter-repair category on Airtasker, fetched 31 August 2026, which states $149–$500 with a median of $270 across 40 Sydney reviews. Individual completed tasks sit inside and above it: a rusted front balcony gutter removed and replaced in Marrickville $500, two small rusted downpipes replaced in Petersham $200, a leaking box gutter repaired $180, and a gutter-and-drainpipe upgrade at $800 that runs past the band. Melbourne's equivalent category reads $140–$450, median $250, on 77 reviews — a different sample size with a spread that does not track Sydney's at a constant ratio.
A$149A$500
Downpipe repair or replacement
Airtasker's Sydney downpipe installation-and-repair category (fetched 31 August 2026): $156–$585, median $276, on 15 Sydney reviews. Individual completed tasks: three new PVC downpipes in Marrickville $600, a downpipe repaired in Glebe $250, a downpipe and rainwater head replaced in Glebe $500, a rusted downpipe section replaced in Surry Hills $100, an external downpipe unblocked in Petersham $250. A $3,000 Darlinghurst job covering downpipes plus flashings on a two-storey house is a combined scope and is not treated as this line's ceiling.
A$156A$585
Gutter guard supplied and installed
The same publisher's Sydney gutter-guard-installation category, fetched 31 August 2026, states $240–$350 with a median of $250 — but on 7 reviews, the thinnest sample on this page, so the narrow band reflects sample size rather than a settled market. Individual completed Sydney tasks run wider than the band in both directions: 6 m of aluminium mesh on a low-set roof in Glebe $100, roughly 9 m in Alexandria $150, a two-storey terrace in Darlinghurst $350, a two-storey measure-clean-and-install in Newtown $500. Most of these postings bundle a gutter clean with the guard, which is part of why they are hard to compare.
A$240A$350
Gutter and roof cleaning (maintenance, not licensable roof plumbing)
Airtasker's Sydney gutter-cleaning category (fetched 31 August 2026): $186–$260, median $220, on 109 Sydney reviews — the largest roof-related Sydney sample used here, and the narrowest band, which is what a high-volume repeatable task tends to look like. Listed separately because cleaning is not within the roof plumbing category described in Schedule 1 of the Home Building Act 1989, so it does not carry the licensing question the four lines above do. The adjacent Sydney roof-cleaning category was not used: 4 reviews, and its task list mixes in roof-cavity and roof-fan cleaning.
A$186A$260

Common questions

Does roofing work in Sydney need a licence at any job value, the way plumbing does?

No, and the distinction is written into the definition. Schedule 1 of the Home Building Act 1989 defines specialist work as plumbing and drainage work "other than roof plumbing work", which puts roof plumbing outside the any-value rule. The Home Building Regulation 2014 then lists roof plumbing, roof tiling and roof slating as trade categories of residential building work, licensed once the reasonable market cost of labour and materials exceeds $5,000. NSW's roof plumbing page states the threshold and its plumbing page states the any-value rule; both are accurate because they describe different categories.

Which licence category matches my roof?

It follows the covering. The Act defines roof plumbing work as fixing, installing, renovating, altering, repairing and maintaining guttering, downpipes, roof flashing and roof coverings — except coverings of non-metallic tiles and slates, glass, concrete, timber and timber products, thatching, or malthoid, bituminous or similar membrane material. Those exceptions are where the other categories begin: Schedule 4 of the Regulation puts fixing roof tiles, bedding and pointing, sarking and battens under roof tiling, and slates, shingles and shakes under roof slating. Applying a protective coating to a tiled roof is also inside roof tiling, provided it involves no structural alteration of roof members.

The contract of sale says the property is bush fire prone — what does that change for the roof?

It changes the approval path rather than the trade. Bush fire prone land is mapped by the council and certified by the RFS Commissioner under s 10.3 of the Environmental Planning and Assessment Act 1979, and the status appears on the s 10.7 planning certificate. Under s 4.14, a council cannot approve development on that land unless the application complies with Planning for Bush Fire Protection, which requires a Bush Fire Attack Level to be determined; complying development is available only at BAL Low, 12.5, 19 and 29. Whether any of that reaches a given job depends on whether the work is a development requiring consent or ordinary maintenance.

Water is coming through the roof of my apartment — is that mine to fix?

Often not, but the by-laws decide. Section 106 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 requires an owners corporation to properly maintain and keep the common property in a state of good and serviceable repair, and an owner who suffers reasonably foreseeable loss from a contravention may recover it as damages for breach of statutory duty, with proceedings to be brought within 6 years of first becoming aware of the loss. Where the by-laws have adopted the statutory Common Property Memorandum, guttering and membranes are on the owners corporation's list — but s 107 says a scheme may adopt that memorandum, not that it must, so the building's own records settle which split applies.

A storm has opened up the roof — does an emergency repair still need a written contract first?

Section 6(2) of the Home Building Act 1989 sets those formalities aside in a genuine emergency: where the work not being done promptly is likely to create a hazard to health or safety or damage to property, and the requirements cannot practicably be complied with in time, ss 7, 7AAA, 7AA, 7B and 7BA do not apply. What it suspends is the contract paperwork, not the licensing rules and not the statutory warranties. The 10% cap on deposits in s 8 carries no dollar threshold and no emergency exception, so it holds through a make-safe as much as through a planned re-roof.

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