Every business below is checked against the QBCC licence register and ranked by quantified Google-review themes — never by who paid.
Based in Kirwan
Emperor Roofing & Plumbing records 4.8 stars across 25 Google reviews as of 22 August 2026. In the analysed sample (24 reviews), Professional & friendly (13) and Communication (13) are the most-mentioned themes, with Quality of work (12) also recorded. A current QBCC Roof and Wall Cladding licence was verified against the register on 22 August 2026.
Based in Kelso
As of 22 August 2026, The Roof Tiler & Sons Pty Ltd, a Kelso roofer, has 4.8 stars across 12 Google reviews; in the 12-review sample, Professional & friendly was mentioned 8 times, with Reliable & trustworthy (4) and Quality of work (3) also recorded; the QBCC register verified a current Roof Tiling licence on 22 August 2026.
Based in Rasmussen
Townsville Roof Tiling holds a current QBCC licence covering Roof Tiling and Roof and Wall Cladding, with the QBCC register listing it as current on 22 August 2026. Google records 4.6 stars across 10 reviews as of 22 August 2026. In the 10-review sample, Value & pricing (4) appears most often, followed by Professional & friendly (3) and Quality of work (2).
About roofers in Townsville
Townsville sits further north than Brisbane, but its roof problem is drier: months of almost no rain and high UV from April to November, then a wet season packed into December–March that can dump most of the year's rain in weeks. That whiplash wears a roof down fast. The coast north of Bundaberg carries a cyclone wind rating, so a re-roof meets a classification tied to site exposure, not one flat figure. Every roofer below holds a current QBCC licence in the class the material requires — Roof Tiling or Roof and Wall Cladding — checked against the register. Prices are split by job: a restoration, a per-m² re-roof and a repair are not the same number.
Townsville's roofing calendar follows the wet/dry split, not a storm season: April–November runs almost rainless with high UV (Townsville Aero records show five months, June to October, averaging under 25mm each), long enough to bake sealant and let dust build in gutters. Trade practice treats September–November as the pre-wet-season window — clear gutters and check flashings before December, because the wet then concentrates ~80% of the year's rain into four months and tests every weak point at once. Housing age tracks the wind rating: older inner-suburb homes predate current cyclone provisions, so a re-roof there is a chance to bring battens and tie-downs up to today's classification; newer estates were already built to it. Magnetic Island adds direct sea exposure and barge freight, raising loading and cost. A large Defence presence, with postings rotating every few years, keeps rental turnover — and pre-lease roof checks — a bigger part of this market than most QLD cities.
Typical prices in Townsville
Ranges reflect quotes observed locally — not national averages, not advertised "from" prices.
| Service | Typical range (A$) |
|---|---|
Roof leak repair / minor repair Airtasker's own price-guide statistic for its Townsville 'Roof Repair' category (fetched 27 Aug 2026): $78–$226 AUD, computed by Airtasker itself from 10 recently completed/posted local tasks — locating and fixing a leak, resealing a flashing, patching a small area of sheeting. GST treatment is not stated; these are poster-set task budgets, not itemised invoices. The same category's Brisbane page computes to $200–$550 from 20 tasks: a different sample size producing a different range is what a genuine per-city marketplace statistic looks like, against a publisher multiplying one baseline across cities. | A$78 — A$226 |
Gutter repair (blockage, leak, storm damage) Airtasker's own price-guide statistic for its Townsville 'Gutter Repair' category (fetched 27 Aug 2026): $250 AUD, computed by Airtasker itself from 11 recently completed/posted local tasks — fixing a blocked downpipe, a bent or leaking section, or storm-loosened brackets. GST treatment is not stated; these are poster-set task budgets, not itemised invoices. Airtasker's own low and high estimate collapse to the same figure here, which reads as a small-sample artefact rather than a genuine single price point; the individual task prices behind it actually ranged $10–$600, so read $250 as a centre point, not a guarantee. | A$250 — A$250 |
Pre-wet-season gutter clean & clear Airtasker's own price-guide statistic for its Townsville 'Gutter Cleaning' category (fetched 27 Aug 2026): $145–$300 AUD, computed by Airtasker itself from 9 recently completed/posted local tasks — clearing leaves and debris and checking downpipes are flowing. GST treatment is not stated; these are poster-set task budgets, not itemised invoices. Timing this before the wet season, not after storms have already tested a blocked gutter, is the locally distinctive part: a clear gutter matters most in the weeks each roof has to handle several months' worth of rain arriving at once. | A$145 — A$300 |
Metal (Colorbond-style) re-roof, supply + install (per m²) No genuine Townsville-specific supply-and-install rate was found. Emperor Roofing & Plumbing (Kirwan, Townsville-only, the one staged candidate with a working website) and Ninja Roofing Pty Ltd (Thuringowa Central, Townsville-only, found independently) both publish service pages with no prices; Airtasker's general 'Roofing' category for Townsville mixes job types too widely to isolate a re-roof rate (its own computed range, $165–$350 from 20 tasks, includes a $9,999 outlier). Matches the Brisbane figure — Fortified Roofing Group's 2026 Brisbane guide, $80–$150/m² (QBCC 15316575), extended to $180/m² by Brisbane Roofing Co (QBCC 15308647) — pending a genuine Townsville source. | A$80 — A$180 |
Tile roof restoration (clean, re-bed/re-point ridges, re-coat) No Townsville-specific restoration price was found: neither Emperor Roofing & Plumbing nor Ninja Roofing Pty Ltd — the two Townsville-only roofers with a working website found for this page — publish restoration pricing, and Airtasker does not run a distinct 'roof restoration' category page for Townsville or any other city (the URL 404s). Matches the Brisbane figure — Brisbane Roof and Paint's 2026 guide, $3,500–$5,500 up to 150m² and $5,000–$8,000 for 150–220m², ex GST — pending a genuine Townsville source. | A$3,000 — A$8,500 |
Common questions
For roofing work over $3,300 in labour and materials, yes — and the class depends on the material: Roof Tiling for tiled roofs, Roof and Wall Cladding for metal roofing and cladding such as Colorbond. A licence for one doesn't automatically cover the other, so matching class to material matters. Qualifying residential work also brings Queensland Home Warranty cover, which an unlicensed operator can't offer. Ask for the licence number and check both the licence and its class on the free QBCC register before paying a deposit.
The coastline north of Bundaberg, Townsville included, is classified as a cyclone wind region under the Queensland Reconstruction Authority's building guidance, and homes in it are engineered to a wind classification (graded C1 to C4) that scales with how exposed the site is — a hilltop or open block answers to a tighter standard than a sheltered inner-suburb lot. In practice, that mostly matters when re-roofing a home built before current provisions: it's the point at which a roofer checks whether tie-downs, battens and fixings meet today's classification for that specific site, not just when the sheeting itself needs replacing.
Because Townsville's wet season is short and heavy rather than spread across months: roughly 80% of the year's rain falls in about four months, so a fault that would leak slowly elsewhere gets tested all at once here. A gutter that's been silently blocked since the dry season, or a ridge cap that worked loose in the last light wind, has weeks rather than months before it's carrying a genuine downpour. Booking an inspection in the September–November window, while the roof is dry and accessible, catches these before the wet arrives rather than mid-storm when every roofer in town is already booked out.
Possibly, yes. Months of intense UV with almost no cloud cover bakes protective coatings and sealant even when there's no visible leak — fading and chalking on paintwork, and stiffening or cracking in flexible sealant around flashings and screws, are both signs the protective layer is ageing out, not just cosmetic. Left long enough, that's exactly what turns a straightforward restoration into a full re-roof once the wet season finds the gap the coating used to cover. A roofer can check ridge capping, flashings and sealant condition on the ground or from a ladder without a full roof inspection, if you're not sure it's worth booking one yet.
It can, mainly around wind exposure and access rather than the licensing itself — the same QBCC classes and register checks apply island-wide. Magnetic Island sits directly on the open water rather than behind the mainland coast, so a site there can sit at a higher wind classification than an equivalent block in town, and materials and larger equipment generally travel over on the vehicle barge rather than by road, which affects both lead times and cost. If you're quoting a re-roof or restoration on the island, ask whether the roofer has costed the barge crossing and confirmed the site's wind classification, rather than pricing it as a standard in-town job.
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