Tag: Asbestos and Demolition
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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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The cheapest demolition quote in Melbourne is almost never the cheapest demolition. That sounds like the kind of thing a demolition contractor would say to justify a higher price — and we’d understand the scepticism. But the maths is the maths. The labour cost is the same across the Victorian market. The plant cost is…
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Choosing the wrong demolition contractor is the single most expensive mistake a Melbourne property owner can make in 2026 — more expensive than getting the architect wrong, more expensive than picking the wrong builder, and far harder to recover from once the excavator has already arrived on site. It’s also the most avoidable. Almost every…
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There is a moment, on almost every demolition job we run across Melbourne, when a homeowner walks through their house for the last time and asks the same question: “Is there anything in here actually worth saving?” In nine cases out of ten, the answer is yes — and the value sitting inside the walls…
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On the day a Melbourne home or warehouse comes down, a procession of trucks rolls in and out of the site for hours. Tippers, scrap lorries, sealed asbestos vehicles, the occasional hook-lift bin. By sundown, the building you’ve known for decades — or that your tenants just moved out of — has been reduced to…
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Most Melbourne homeowners, developers and commercial tenants picture demolition as a single act of destruction — an excavator turns up, a building comes down, a procession of trucks heads to landfill. The reality on a properly run 2026 demolition site looks almost nothing like that. On a typical project we run across metropolitan Melbourne, roughly…
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You fell in love with the leadlight windows. The pressed-metal ceiling. The tessellated-tile verandah and the front door that’s heavier than your kitchen island. You also walked into the back of the house and quietly thought: someone please save me from this. A 1968 fibro lean-to laundry. A 1992 kitchen that hates right angles. A…
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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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A knockdown rebuild — KDR for short — is the most popular path to a brand-new home in Melbourne for one simple reason: the land you already love is almost always worth more than the house sitting on it. Established suburbs with the schools, the trains, the cafés and the park you actually use are…