Tag: Demolition
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The slab of the 1960s brick-veneer home you’re knocking down in Bentleigh isn’t waste. Neither is the tilt-panel floor of the warehouse coming down in Dandenong, the driveway in Reservoir that’s about to be removed for a townhouse development, or the cracked concrete pad behind the shed in Werribee that’s heading into a knockdown rebuild.…
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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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There’s a particular kind of stress that lands on every Melbourne business owner who has ever signed a commercial lease. Trading is fine. The team is busy. Then a thick envelope arrives from the landlord’s solicitor — or a polite-but-firm email from the centre management team — and suddenly the make-good clause that nobody read…
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If you’re a small developer in Melbourne running your first — or your fifth — townhouse project, the demolition phase is the bit where the project either gets out of the gate cleanly or starts haemorrhaging time and money before a single footing is dug. We see it both ways every week. A well-scoped demolition…
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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…