Cosmetic from $60k, full interior from $150k, renovate-and-extend from $300k. Fixed-price contract, Domestic Building Insurance, and a schedule you can hold us to.
Price at a glance
Indicative ranges. Your fixed price is confirmed in writing after a free site visit.
Packages
Whole-home projects are the only ones where a published range genuinely can't be a quote. Treat these bands as the bracket your project sits in; the fixed price comes after a measured site visit and a scope document you sign off on.
Everything you can see, nothing you can't. Great before a sale.
6–10 weeks on site
New kitchen, new bathrooms, better layout. The house you wanted.
16–26 weeks on site
Full interior plus a rear or upstairs extension.
32–52 weeks on site
Priced separately so you can see exactly what each one costs.
It’s a fair question and we’d rather you asked it before you spend $200,000 with us than after.
Renovating tends to win when the location is right, the bones are sound, and the layout is the problem. It tends to lose when the house has fundamental structural issues, when you’d be rebuilding more than half of it, or when the finished value would sit well above the ceiling for your street.
We’ll tell you which one you’re looking at during the site visit. Talking someone out of a job occasionally is cheaper for us than a project that nobody enjoys.
Progress payments tied to completed stages, not to the calendar. You pay a deposit, then at defined milestones — demolition and structural complete, lock-up, services complete, practical completion — with a final payment held until the defects list is closed.
For any domestic building work over $16,000 in Victoria, the builder must carry the relevant domestic building insurance, and your contract must be a compliant major domestic building contract. That’s your protection if something goes wrong, and it is not a formality to be waived because it makes the paperwork easier.
Design and documentation first, then permits, then trades in sequence: demolition, structural, rough-in services, plaster, fit-off, finishes, defects. The sequencing sounds obvious and is where most badly-run renovations fall apart, because a trade that arrives before the one in front of it has finished either waits or does it twice.
A full interior runs 16 to 26 weeks on site. Renovate-and-extend runs 32 to 52, plus the planning permit time before it. Those numbers assume decisions are made when we need them — we give you a selections schedule with dates at the start so nothing surprises you.
Most clients move out for a full interior renovation. It’s faster for us and far less miserable for you, and the time saved often offsets a meaningful share of the rent. Cosmetic projects can usually be staged so you stay in place, working through the house in sections.
Questions
A cosmetic whole-home refresh runs $60,000 to $110,000. A full interior renovation with new kitchen, bathrooms, rewiring and layout changes is $150,000 to $280,000. Renovating and extending sits between $300,000 and $600,000.
These are the one category where a published range genuinely cannot be a quote — the variation between two four-bedroom houses is enormous. Treat the band as the bracket your project sits in, then let a measured site visit and a signed scope document produce the fixed price.
Renovating tends to win when the location is right, the structure is sound, and the layout is the actual problem. A house in the suburb you want with a bad floor plan is a solvable problem.
Moving tends to win when the house has fundamental structural issues, when you’d effectively be rebuilding more than half of it, or when the finished value would sit well above the ceiling price for your street — at which point you’re spending money you won’t get back.
We’ll give you a straight answer at the site visit. Talking someone out of a job occasionally costs us less than a project nobody enjoys.
For a cosmetic renovation, usually yes — we stage the work through the house in sections so you always have a functioning kitchen, bathroom and bedroom.
For a full interior renovation, most clients move out. With no kitchen, bathrooms out of action and services disconnected for periods, staying is genuinely difficult. It’s also slower and therefore more expensive, because trades work around you instead of running continuously.
The time saved by moving out often offsets a meaningful share of the rent.