Tag: Residential Demolition
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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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Excavator vs Wrecking Ball vs Implosion: How Modern Demolition Actually Works (Melbourne 2026 Guide)
Ask anyone outside the construction industry to picture a demolition, and you’ll get one of three mental images: a giant steel ball swinging from a crane, a 30-storey tower collapsing into its own footprint in a cloud of dust, or — if they’ve actually seen a knock-down rebuild on their street — a yellow excavator…
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If you’ve been getting demolition quotes in Melbourne — whether for a tired weatherboard in Brunswick, an office floor in the CBD, a retail fitout in Chadstone, or a knock-down rebuild in Tarneit — you’ve probably noticed two terms appearing on quote line-items: soft strip and hard demolition (sometimes called “structural” or “mechanical” demolition). They’re…
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Almost every Melbourne homeowner planning a knock-down rebuild, a major renovation or a partial demolition has the same first question: “What’s this going to cost?” And almost every quote that comes back gives the same unsatisfying answer: “It depends.” It does depend — but not on mystery factors. The cost of asbestos removal in Melbourne…
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If your Melbourne home was built — or extended, renovated or re-roofed — somewhere between the end of World War II and the time Bob Hawke left office, the question isn’t really whether it contains asbestos. The question is where, how much, and how badly it’s going to ambush your demolition project if nobody finds…
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Anyone with a ute, a P2 mask and a “we do asbestos” sticker on the side panel can knock on your door in Melbourne and quote on asbestos removal. Almost none of them are legally allowed to do the work. Asbestos removal in Victoria is one of the most heavily regulated trades in the state…
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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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You’ve decided to knock down. Maybe you’ve just settled on a tired post-war brick veneer in Cranbourne that’s about to make way for your forever home. Maybe you’ve owned a heritage-fringe weatherboard in Brunswick for fifteen years and finally have the budget to redevelop. Maybe a fire turned a much-loved holiday house in the Yarra…