Category: Residential Demolition
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Geelong and the Bellarine Peninsula are no longer a regional satellite of Melbourne — they’re one of the fastest-growing residential corridors in the country, with a property market that now drives serious demolition and rebuild volume in its own right. Drive through Newtown, Geelong West or Belmont and you’ll see knock-down rebuilds on streets that…
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Drive along Beach Road on any Saturday morning and the Bayside story tells itself in the houses lining the streets running inland from the foreshore. A grand Edwardian on a 1,200 square metre Brighton corner block. A 1925 Californian bungalow in Hampton, weatherboard front, fibro lean-to at the rear. A 1960s cream-brick beach house in…
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Demolition in Melbourne’s inner north is its own particular kind of project. On a quiet Sunday morning in Brunswick, you can stand on one corner and see a 1900 single-fronted Victorian cottage, a 1955 brick-veneer infill, a 1980s townhouse and a 2024 architect-designed dual-occupancy all within the same hundred metres. Demolish any one of them…
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It used to be that adding a granny flat in Victoria was a three-month planning permit grind. Then in December 2023, the rules changed — and the way Melbourne homeowners think about their backyards changed with them. Today, in 2026, a small second dwelling of up to 60 square metres (the new official name for…
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You bought the house for the address, the block and the bones. You didn’t buy it for the dark 1970s rear extension, the asbestos-sheeted lean-to laundry, the falling-down sleep-out, or the kitchen tacked onto the back in 1992 by someone who didn’t love right angles. You also don’t want to bulldoze the whole thing. Maybe…
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If you’re demolishing a Melbourne home built before the late 1980s, there’s one word that will quietly determine your project’s licence class, cost, timeline and disposal pathway — and most homeowners have never heard it. That word is friability. Friability is the technical measure of how easily an asbestos-containing material can release fibres into the…
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If your Melbourne home was built before the late 1980s, here’s the uncomfortable truth: assume it contains asbestos until a licensed assessor confirms otherwise. Not “probably”. Not “in some places”. Assume positive across the whole property — eaves, cladding, fences, floor tiles, bathroom linings, electrical backing boards, roof flashing, the lot — and let the…
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If you’ve ever asked a builder “how long until we can start demolition?”, you’ve probably heard one of two answers — “about a week” or “a few months, maybe”. Both are technically true. Neither is actually useful. The honest answer is that demolishing a house in Melbourne is two completely different timelines stacked on top…
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Most homeowners only ever go through a residential demolition once — for a knock-down rebuild, a major renovation, or a fire-damaged property they’ve inherited. By the time the excavator rolls onto the nature strip, they’ve usually had three months of paperwork, four professionals on speed dial, and a handful of late-night Google searches trying to…