Every business below is checked against the QBCC licence register and ranked by quantified Google-review themes — never by who paid.
Based in Maroochydore
Customers of Core Painting Solutions, a Maroochydore painter, most often talk about the quality of the finished work, with surface prep and repairs also coming up regularly. The owner writes back to nearly half of the customers who leave feedback. The QBCC register listed its Painting and Decorating licence as current on 22 August 2026. 5.0 stars across 35 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.
Based in Landsborough
In Landsborough, the people who hired painter Crafted Finishes Pty Ltd keep naming the same tradesperson in their Google feedback — a sign the business is run hands-on by its owner. The oldest review on its Google profile is from December 2018, giving over seven years of customer feedback as of 28 August 2026. The owner wrote back to 28 of the 32 customers who left feedback. The QBCC register confirmed a current Painting and Decorating licence on 22 August 2026. Rated 5 stars across 35 Google reviews.
Based in Wurtulla
In Wurtulla, customers talk about roof & gutter painting at Evolve Painting & Maintenance more than any other job, with interior and exterior work also coming up in the 35 reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026. Clients name several people — including someone who handles the office side — which suggests a small team rather than a one-person outfit. The owner wrote back to 31 of those 35 customers. Google's review history for this business reaches back to July 2021. A Painting and Decorating licence was confirmed current against the QBCC register on 22 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 40 Google reviews.
Based in Mooloolaba
More than one name appears in the feedback for Leogreen Painting & Decorating Pty Ltd, and someone handling bookings is among them. Google reviews for the Mooloolaba painter go back to November 2018. The owner writes back to 50 of the 51 customers who left feedback. Quality of work is what customers describe most, with 32 mentions in the 51 reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026. The QBCC register confirmed the Painting and Decorating licence as current on 22 August 2026. 4.9 stars across 53 Google reviews.
Based in Mountain Creek
The people who hired Michelangelo Painting & Decorating PTY Ltd keep naming the same single tradesperson, suggesting the owner handles the work personally. Customers most often bring up exterior painting, with interior work and roof & gutter painting also mentioned. The owner writes back to 13 of the 19 customers who left feedback. The earliest review on the company's Google profile lands in August 2021. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds 4.8 stars across 19 Google reviews. Its QBCC licence in Painting and Decorating was confirmed current on 22 August 2026.
Based in Mount Coolum
The owner of Pacific Blue Painting appears to be the one doing the work, since customers keep naming the same person across the sample. Review history for this Mount Coolum painter reaches back to February 2019, giving more than seven years of feedback. Customers talk most about exterior painting, with surface prep & repairs and new builds & renovations also coming up. The QBCC register confirmed a current Painting and Decorating licence on 22 August 2026. The business holds 4.9 stars across 12 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.
Based in Mooloolaba
YTS PaintPro has been collecting Google reviews since November 2023, and the owner writes back to seventeen of the eighteen customers who left feedback. Sixteen of the eighteen sampled reviews arrived in the past year, a pattern consistent with a steady flow of recent work. Customers most often describe interior painting, with colour selection also coming up. The Mooloolaba painter's QBCC licence in Painting and Decorating was confirmed current on 22 August 2026, and its Google rating sits at 4.8 stars across 18 reviews as of 28 August 2026.
By the numbers
Every figure below is counted from this page's own register checks and review analysis — 199 reviews read across 7 licence-verified businesses. Ratings are shown as attributed text and link to the source profile.
| Rank | Business | Base suburb | Licence class | Google rating | Most-mentioned praise |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 01 | Leogreen Painting & Decorating Pty Ltd | Mooloolaba | Painting and Decorating | 4.953 on Google | Quality of work · 32 |
| 02 | Evolve Painting & Maintenance | Wurtulla | Painting and Decorating | 4.940 on Google | Professional & friendly · 18 |
| 03 | Core Painting Solutions | Maroochydore | Painting and Decorating | 5.035 on Google | Quality of work · 23 |
| 04 | Crafted Finishes Pty Ltd | Landsborough | Painting and Decorating | 5.035 on Google | Quality of work · 22 |
| 05 | Michelangelo Painting & Decorating PTY Ltd | Mountain Creek | Painting and Decorating | 4.819 on Google | Professional & friendly · 7 |
| 06 | YTS PaintPro | Mooloolaba | Painting and Decorating | 4.818 on Google | Quality of work · 13 |
| 07 | Pacific Blue Painting | Mount Coolum | Painting and Decorating | 4.912 on Google | Professional & friendly · 10 |
What reviewers praise most
Licence classes held
7 businesses based across 6 suburbs. Licences all verified on 2026-08-22.
About painters in Sunshine Coast
A repaint quote here depends less on wall area than on when the house was built. Nambour and Buderim carry timber stock old enough that surface preparation — and, on anything pre-1970, the possibility of lead paint — dominates the labour, while the rendered estates further south need little more than a clean and two coats. That gap is why the prices below are split by scope rather than quoted per house, and why they trace to Sunshine Coast task data. Licensing follows the ordinary building-work rule: past A$3,300 in labour and materials including GST, the job needs a QBCC Painting and Decorating licence, and every painter below is register-checked.
Paint failure here is mostly a film problem, not a metal one. Subtropical UV chalks and fades pigment, while salt-laden air draws into the film and undermines adhesion from beneath — a different mechanism from fixings rusting, hitting north- and west-facing walls hardest. Sunshine Coast Airport's Bureau of Meteorology data show afternoon humidity holding at roughly 59–71% year-round with rain spread across 107 days rather than one short season, so a coat needs a genuine multi-day dry window to cure, not just a dry day to apply it. Housing age matters too: Nambour dates to an 1870 European settlement, Buderim to an 1884 post office, and both still hold heritage Queenslanders among newer builds. Homes from either era built before roughly 1970 may carry lead-based paint, changing how a painter scrapes and sands. Newer estates lean on render and Colorbond instead of the timber and fibro common through the region's mid-century growth, so all three can turn up on one street.
Typical prices in Sunshine Coast
Ranges reflect quotes observed locally — not national averages, not advertised "from" prices.
| Service | Typical range (A$) |
|---|---|
Interior repaint, standard room (walls, two coats) Airtasker's Sunshine Coast painting page (fetched 27 August 2026) prices General Painting at $200–$600, median $350, based on 381 local reviews — the largest sample of any category checked; GST inclusion is not stated. Its Bedroom Painting category runs a little higher at $300–$712 (37 reviews), and the same page notes Little Mountain averaging $250–$450 per room against $350–$600 in coastal Mooloolaba and Alexandra Headland — a spread the source attributes to suburb, not a flat multiplier. | A$200 — A$600 |
Bathroom repaint (wet-area room, obstacles included) Airtasker's Sunshine Coast page (fetched 27 August 2026) prices Bathroom Painting at $290–$650, median $450, based on 13 reviews — a small but genuine sample. Its Kitchen Painting category, built from only 7 reviews, runs to $370–$940, consistent with wet-area and cabinetry-heavy rooms costing more per room than a plain bedroom; the kitchen sample is too small alone to anchor a line, so this figure uses only the better-sampled bathroom category. | A$290 — A$650 |
Exterior painting, single wall / fence / partial elevation (per task) Airtasker's Sunshine Coast exterior-painting page (last updated 22 August 2026) prices this at $250–$850, median $500, based on 29 reviews across 37 completed tasks — a scoped, single-element job like a fence, deck or one wall, not a whole house. Its wider house-painting page separately states exterior work in Coolum Beach 'can start at $500', consistent with the low end here. | A$250 — A$850 |
Exterior repaint, multiple elevations (task-marketplace scope) Airtasker's Sunshine Coast house-painting page (last updated 15 August 2026) states 'larger exterior projects typically fall between $2,000 and $5,000', and task budgets posted on the same page ($2,000, $2,555, $3,000, $6,000) sit around that band. This runs well below the $5,000–$15,000 this site's Brisbane page and the $3,500–$12,000 the Gold Coast page show for a single-storey exterior repaint by a licensed contractor — a genuine disagreement, not an error: this figure reflects individual gig-platform tasks (often one tradesperson, sometimes lighter prep), while the Brisbane/Gold Coast figures come from licensed painters quoting a full contract. Treat this line as a marketplace floor, not a substitute for a contractor's whole-house quote. | A$2,000 — A$5,000 |
Ceiling painting (per task) Airtasker's Sunshine Coast page (fetched 27 August 2026) prices Ceiling Painting at $205–$600, median $375, based on 55 reviews — a separate category from wall or general painting, reflecting overhead working and the stain-blocking prep ceilings often need before a topcoat. | A$205 — A$600 |
Common questions
More often on an exposed north- or west-facing wall than a sheltered one. Sunshine Coast Airport's Bureau of Meteorology records show afternoon humidity sitting at 59–71% year-round and rain spread across roughly 107 days a year rather than one short wet season, and that combination — persistent UV plus salt-laden coastal air plus humidity that rarely dries out completely — degrades a paint film by letting moisture in under the surface, not by rusting anything. A well-prepared exterior typically lasts somewhere in the 7–12 year range depending on aspect and paint quality, with the shaded side of a house often outlasting the sunny side by several years. Preparation, not the paint brand, is what actually controls this.
Because the age of the suburb tracks the age of the house, and an older house needs more prep. Nambour's European settlement dates to 1870, and Buderim's post office opened in 1884 — both still hold heritage Queenslanders among newer builds. Anything built before roughly 1970 may carry lead-based paint, and safely removing or disturbing it — scraping, sanding, wet-sanding to control dust — takes longer and needs different handling than a straightforward two-coat job on newer render. Ask what testing or dust-containment approach a painter uses on an older home before work starts, not after the dust is already up.
Once labour and materials together — including GST — exceed A$3,300, painting is licensable building work and the painter needs a QBCC Painting and Decorating licence. That threshold can't be worked around by splitting one job into several smaller invoices: under the regulation, work stays licensable once it's carried out as part of a contract whose total value tops $3,300, even if a single invoice on its own would sit under it. Below the threshold a licence isn't legally required, but a licensed painter also carries the insurance and Home Warranty obligations that a cash job doesn't.
Scope. Airtasker's Sunshine Coast pricing for a single wall, fence or one elevation runs $250–$850, and even its 'larger exterior projects' band tops out around $5,000 — but that's gig-marketplace pricing for a bounded task, usually one person, sometimes with lighter prep. A licensed contractor quoting a full single-storey exterior repaint is pricing a different job: multiple elevations, full scraping and priming, and the insurance and warranty obligations that come with a QBCC licence. On this site's Brisbane and Gold Coast pages, that full-house figure sits at $5,000–$15,000 and $3,500–$12,000 respectively. Compare quotes against what's actually included, not just the total.
Yes. Bureau of Meteorology figures for Sunshine Coast Airport put annual rainfall spread across roughly 107 rain days a year, plus afternoon humidity that stays above 59% even in the driest months — so exterior paint needs a longer genuine dry window to cure between coats than a single dry day on the forecast might suggest. Booking through the drier middle months, and asking your painter how they're timing coats around forecast rain rather than just the day of application, avoids a job that looks fine on handover and blisters within a year.
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