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Plumbers in Cairns

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

Showing all 15 licensed plumbers across CairnsUpdated 2026-08-27 · Register QBCC

Based in Kewarra Beach

Response time · 29Professional & friendly · 29Value & pricing · 13

Gas work is what customers at AVS PLUMBING AND GAS PTY LTD talk about most, with hot water systems and leak repairs also coming up in the reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026. The same tradesperson is named in the bulk of the 47 reviews, suggesting a one-person operation. The owner wrote back to 46 of the 47 customers who left feedback. The QBCC register confirmed a current Plumbing and Drainage licence for the Kewarra Beach plumber on 22 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 49 Google reviews.

Based in Bayview Heights

Response time · 17Professional & friendly · 16Quality of work · 8

Customers at Bayview Plumbers keep naming the same tradesperson, which reads as the owner doing the work themselves rather than a crew. That personal touch stands out more than any single job type — the work mix is spread thin, with toilets & cisterns and hot water systems each coming up only a handful of times. The first Google review of Bayview Plumbers was posted in June 2018, giving over eight years of feedback on record. The QBCC register confirmed a current Plumbing and Drainage licence for the Bayview Heights business on 22 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 36 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Quaid Crt Tinaroo

Response time · 15Professional & friendly · 12Quality of work · 11

Customers at Brenton Neville Plumbing most often talk about toilets & cisterns, with emergency & after-hours work also coming up, in a review sample pulled on 28 August 2026. The business, based in Quaid Crt Tinaroo, holds a QBCC licence in Plumbing and Drainage that was confirmed current on 22 August 2026. It has 4.8 stars across 29 Google reviews, and the owner wrote back to 1 of the 27 analysed customers who left feedback. The oldest feedback on Google goes back to September 2023.

Based in Redlynch

Professional & friendly · 11Response time · 7Quality of work · 5

Briody Plumbing's owner writes back to most customers who leave feedback, and the Redlynch plumber's review record starts in October 2020. The QBCC register confirmed its Plumbing and Drainage licence as current on 22 August 2026. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds 4.8 stars across 19 Google reviews, with customers most often describing leak repairs. The owner's replies to customers are a notable part of the feedback pattern, and the review history, which spans nearly six years, shows a consistent presence in the local area.

Based in Gordonvale

Response time · 18Professional & friendly · 9Clean & tidy · 9

Copeys Plumbing's Google history reaches back to at least January 2020, and the feedback there keeps circling back to the same tradesperson — the work reads as the owner's own. Of the 30 customers whose feedback was analysed, 27 heard back from the owner. Leak repairs are what customers describe most, and response time comes up often. The Gordonvale plumber's QBCC licence in Plumbing and Drainage was confirmed current on 22 August 2026, while its 4.9-star rating across 36 Google reviews stood as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Stratford

Professional & friendly · 43Response time · 38Quality of work · 17

The first Google review of Coral Sea Plumbing was posted in January 2014, so the Stratford plumber has more than a decade of feedback on record. The owner writes back to 67 of the 75 customers whose reviews were analysed, a reply rate that covers the vast majority. Customers most often describe leak repairs, with rental and real-estate jobs also coming up. The QBCC register listed the business as holding a current Plumbing and Drainage licence when checked on 22 August 2026. 4.5 stars across 81 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Mooroobool

Professional & friendly · 8Response time · 5Reliable & trustworthy · 4

Customers at De Rose Plumbing talk most about hot water systems, with gas work and leak repairs also coming up. As of 28 August 2026, the Mooroobool plumber has 4.6 stars across 19 Google reviews. On 22 August 2026, the QBCC register showed its Plumbing and Drainage licence as current.

Based in Craiglie

Response time · 22Professional & friendly · 18Quality of work · 12

Customer feedback at Fox plumbing and gas services keeps circling back to one person, which points to a hands-on owner rather than a dispatched team. This Craiglie plumber holds 5 stars across 46 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026, and the owner wrote back to 10 of the 43 customers whose feedback was analysed. The QBCC register confirmed the Plumbing and Drainage licence as current on 22 August 2026.

Based in Craiglie

Response time · 25Professional & friendly · 16Quality of work · 8

KJO Plumbing & Gas is a Craiglie plumber whose customers most often bring up leak repairs, with emergency and after-hours callouts close behind. Response time is the theme they mention most often, and the QBCC register confirmed its Plumbing and Drainage licence as current on 22 August 2026. The business holds 4.9 stars across 35 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Manunda

Professional & friendly · 27Response time · 24Quality of work · 13

The QBCC register confirmed LJ's Plumbing and gas's licence as current on 22 August 2026, covering Plumbing and Drainage. Its Google history reaches back to at least January 2017, and as of 28 August 2026, customers most often describe leak repairs. The Manunda plumber holds 4.1 stars across 62 Google reviews.

Based in Parramatta Park

Response time · 9Professional & friendly · 9Quality of work · 5

Google reviews for NBS Plumbing Pty Ltd go back to November 2020, giving the Parramatta Park plumber more than five years of feedback history. Of the 15 reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026, the owner replied to all of them. Customers most often describe how quickly the team arrived or answered, and a good number also note the friendly, professional manner of the work. On 22 August 2026 the QBCC register showed the business holding a current Plumbing and Drainage licence. It rates 4.9 stars across 17 Google reviews.

Based in Kanimbla

Professional & friendly · 50Response time · 48Quality of work · 21

Customers name the same tradesperson in nearly half of the analysed reviews, a pattern consistent with an owner doing the work themselves. The owner writes back to 88 of the 91 customers who left feedback, and a good share of those reviews arrived in the past year. Leak repairs lead the work mentioned, with hot water systems and toilets & cisterns also coming up. Oakland Plumbing, a Kanimbla plumber, holds a QBCC licence in Plumbing and Drainage confirmed current on 22 August 2026, and carries 4.9 stars across 96 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Craiglie

Response time · 5Professional & friendly · 5Value & pricing · 2

Google reviews for Paul Voerman Plumbing P/L reach back to at least February 2020, and the business holds 4.9 stars across 16 reviews as of 28 August 2026. Among the jobs customers describe, emergency and after-hours work comes up most often, with response time mentioned regularly. The QBCC register confirmed a current Plumbing and Drainage licence on 22 August 2026.

Based in Mount Sheridan

Response time · 19Professional & friendly · 12Communication · 9

At Stattons Plumbing Company, customers come back to leak repairs more than any other job, with toilets and cisterns trailing a fair few mentions behind. The Mount Sheridan plumber's Google history goes back to October 2018, meaning over seven years of reviews on record. Of the 31 reviews analysed, 24 received a reply from the owner. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds 4.7 stars across 45 Google reviews. The QBCC register confirmed its Plumbing and Drainage licence as current on 22 August 2026.

Based in Bungalow

Response time · 35Professional & friendly · 30Quality of work · 20

Nearly two-thirds of the feedback Tomkins Plumbing has received arrived in the past year, a pattern consistent with a business that has been drawing steady attention. Leak repairs come up most often in what customers describe, with emergency and after-hours work also mentioned. The owner writes back to a solid majority of the 70 customers whose feedback was analysed as of 28 August 2026. The QBCC register confirmed the Bungalow plumber's Plumbing and Drainage licence as current on 22 August 2026. 5 stars across 74 Google reviews.

By the numbers

Plumbers in Cairns, ranked by verified Google review volume

Every figure below is counted from this page's own register checks and review analysis — 600 reviews read across 15 licence-verified businesses. Ratings are shown as attributed text and link to the source profile.

RankBusinessBase suburbLicence classGoogle ratingMost-mentioned praise
01Oakland PlumbingKanimblaPlumbing and Drainage4.996 on GoogleProfessional & friendly · 50
02Coral Sea PlumbingStratfordPlumbing and Drainage4.581 on GoogleProfessional & friendly · 43
03Tomkins PlumbingBungalowPlumbing and Drainage5.074 on GoogleResponse time · 35
04LJ's Plumbing and gasManundaPlumbing and Drainage4.162 on GoogleProfessional & friendly · 27
05AVS PLUMBING AND GAS PTY LTDKewarra BeachPlumbing and Drainage4.949 on GoogleResponse time · 29
06Fox plumbing and gas servicesCraigliePlumbing and Drainage5.046 on GoogleResponse time · 22
07Stattons Plumbing CompanyMount SheridanPlumbing and Drainage4.745 on GoogleResponse time · 19
08Bayview PlumbersBayview HeightsPlumbing and Drainage4.936 on GoogleResponse time · 17
09Copeys PlumbingGordonvalePlumbing and Drainage4.936 on GoogleResponse time · 18
10KJO Plumbing & GasCraigliePlumbing and Drainage4.935 on GoogleResponse time · 25
11Brenton Neville PlumbingQuaid Crt TinarooPlumbing and Drainage4.829 on GoogleResponse time · 15
12Briody PlumbingRedlynchPlumbing and Drainage4.819 on GoogleProfessional & friendly · 11
13De Rose PlumbingMoorooboolPlumbing and Drainage4.619 on GoogleProfessional & friendly · 8
14NBS Plumbing Pty LtdParramatta ParkPlumbing and Drainage4.917 on GoogleResponse time · 9
15Paul Voerman Plumbing P/LCraigliePlumbing and Drainage4.916 on GoogleResponse time · 5

What reviewers praise most

Response timepraised at 15 of 15 · 316 mentions
Professional & friendlypraised at 15 of 15 · 295 mentions
Quality of workpraised at 10 of 15 · 120 mentions
Value & pricingpraised at 2 of 15 · 15 mentions
Clean & tidypraised at 1 of 15 · 9 mentions
Communicationpraised at 1 of 15 · 9 mentions
Reliable & trustworthypraised at 1 of 15 · 4 mentions

Licence classes held

Plumbing and Drainage15 of 15
Coverage and verification dates

15 businesses based across 13 suburbs. Licences all verified on 2026-08-22.

About plumbers in Cairns

A cap over a sanitary drain's inspection opening. The grate on its trap. A jumper washer in a tap, a float valve washer in a cistern. Queensland's Plumbing and Drainage Regulation 2019 confines unlicensed work to a short list like that — everything past it, including refitting the tap itself, needs a QBCC-licensed plumber, no $3,300 floor the way building trades get. Gas connections sit under a separate ticket: Gasfitting, not an extension of the plumbing licence. Every business below is checked against the QBCC register itself; prices below are quotes and completed jobs gathered for Cairns, not a national figure with the city name swapped in.

Cairns sits in the wet tropics, not the subtropics: Köppen classifies it Am, tropical monsoon, against the Cfa humid-subtropical climate Brisbane, the Gold Coast and the Sunshine Coast share. The wet season runs November to April, close to 2,000mm of rain a year in monsoonal downpours, inside a tropical cyclone belt those three sit outside. Afternoon humidity holds around 55–70% most of the year, corroding outdoor tapware and hot water fittings faster than a milder coastline. Geography splits the city too: northern beach suburbs from Machans Beach to Palm Cove sit on the coastal strip, the centre sits on Trinity Inlet, and Douglas Shire to the north — Port Douglas and Mossman — runs lower-density and often on septic, not mains sewer. Cairns is a tourism gateway too, not a purely residential city: short-stay letting is common through the northern beaches and the inner city, so a fair share of the work here is on properties that turn guests over weekly.

Typical prices in Cairns

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

ServiceTypical range (A$)
Small plumbing repair or call-out (tap, minor leak, blocked toilet)
Airtasker's Cairns plumbing category page states an $85–$175 range with a $110 median across 58+ completed local tasks (44 reviews, fetched this session). Recent Cairns jobs shown on the same page include a kitchen sink tap tightened for $85, a tap washer replaced for $100 and a blocked toilet cleared for $100 — real per-task bids tied to Cairns suburbs (Redlynch, Mount Sheridan, Cairns North), not a national figure with the city name changed.
A$85A$175
Toilet repair (cistern valve, seal, seat) — fitting extra
Real completed Cairns tasks from Airtasker's plumbing category page (fetched this session): a leaking toilet bidet fixed for $50, a blocked toilet cleared for $100, a toilet flush and inlet valve replaced for $110, and two toilet seat covers plus two flush buttons changed for $150. A separate listing titled fitting a new toilet reached $500, but that is a full supply-and-fit job, not a repair, so it sits outside this line's scope.
A$50A$150
Gas appliance / cooktop connection (licensed gas work)
Real completed Cairns gas-fitting tasks from Airtasker (fetched this session): installing a gas cooktop for $100, removing and installing a new gas cooktop for $150, connecting a new gas cooktop for $200, and installing a gas stove plus electric oven for $150 — all straightforward cooktop or appliance connections. A gas regulator-and-cooktop install in a camper trailer reached $369 and a bare gas-bottle-connection swap came in at $45; both sit outside this line's cooktop-connection scope — one above it, one below — so neither moved the range.
A$100A$200
Hot water system — connect or install
Two genuinely local install-scope tasks from Airtasker's Cairns hot-water-system page (fetched this session): installing an electric hot water system for $200 (Bentley Park) and connecting a hot water system for $500 (Mount Sheridan). Other tasks on the same page — troubleshooting, leak repairs, a $250 stand repair — are repair jobs, not installs, and sit outside this line. The install-scope sample is thin, just two tasks; none of the 13 Cairns plumbers' own websites checked this session published a rate for standard, heat-pump, solar or continuous-flow units, so this range covers standard connection/install jobs only.
A$200A$500

Common questions

Is replacing a drain cap or a leaking tap washer myself actually legal in Cairns, or does everything need a licensed plumber?

A short list, yes. Queensland's Plumbing and Drainage Regulation 2019 (Schedule 3, s 1) lets a homeowner replace a jumper valve or washer in a tap, a shower head or filter cartridge, and the washers inside a toilet cistern without a licence — and specifically also the caps on a sanitary drain's ground-level inspection openings and the grate over its trap. Anything past that list, including fitting a new tap or drain fitting rather than just its washer or cap, is licensable plumbing work regardless of job value.

Cairns gets cyclones and monsoon rain that Brisbane or the Gold Coast don't see the same way — does that change what a plumber actually checks during a service?

It changes what tends to fail first, more than what's checked. Far North Queensland's wet season runs heavier and longer than South East Queensland's storm season, so stormwater and roof drainage carry more sustained load, and sealed penetrations around external pipework matter more where wind-driven rain is a real possibility. None of that is licensed plumbing work by itself — the building envelope and roof drainage sit partly with a builder or roofer — but a Cairns plumber checking external tapware, gully traps and stormwater connections before the wet season is common local practice, not an upsell.

My hot water system is only a few years old but the tank and fittings already look corroded — is that just normal for Cairns?

More likely than it would be further south, but still worth having checked rather than assumed normal. Cairns runs sustained high humidity for most of the year, and that combination of heat and moisture accelerates corrosion in external metal fittings and hot water system components faster than a drier or cooler climate sees. A licensed plumber can tell you whether it's cosmetic surface corrosion or something shortening the unit's working life — visible corrosion within a few years of installation shouldn't just be shrugged off as the weather.

I run a holiday-let near the northern beaches — does Cairns' huge tourist accommodation base mean plumbing standards work differently for a short-stay property?

No. Short-stay letting is common through the northern beaches and the inner city, but the licensing requirement doesn't change for that use. A holiday-let's plumbing and drainage work is licensable at any job value exactly as it would be for an owner-occupied home; higher guest turnover just tends to mean faults get reported and fixed faster, not that a lower standard applies.

My block is in Douglas Shire, north of Cairns, and isn't connected to mains sewer — what does that mean for plumbing work?

It depends what the job is. Queensland's unregulated-work list covers maintaining the irrigation line that disposes of effluent from a septic tank or on-site sewage facility, so routine upkeep of that disposal line doesn't need a licence. Installing, relocating or repairing the septic tank or treatment plant itself isn't on that list, so that work needs a QBCC Plumbing and Drainage licence regardless of value, same as it would on mains sewer in Cairns proper.

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