Nine things. Bathroom renovations, kitchens and laundries, granny flats and secondary dwellings, whole-house renovations, NDIS home modifications, property repairs and maintenance, gutter and fascia repairs, water damage and leaks, and fencing, gates and outdoor living. Most jobs start as one of those and turn out to need two, which is the reason we hold all nine rather than sending you elsewhere partway through.

Always, and before anything starts. The quote sets out the work, the materials, the allowances and the assumptions we have priced against. Where something might be hiding behind a wall or under a floor, that risk is named in the scope with an allowance against it rather than arriving later as a variation.

Probably not, and you should be careful with whoever is. The gap between three quotes on the same job is almost never the price of the labour — it is what each one has quietly left out. A thinner membrane, a shorter cure, an allowance nobody mentioned, a licensed trade priced as though it were not one. Our quote is itemised so you can hold it beside the others and see exactly where they differ. That is a more useful thing to have than the lowest number.

Wet areas are waterproofed to AS 3740:2021, the current Australian Standard, and the certificate is issued in your name. Building work is built to the National Construction Code edition in force in NSW — currently NCC 2022, with NCC 2025 adopted here from 1 May 2027. Plumbing, electrical and waterproofing are carried out by the relevant licence holder and you receive the compliance certificates at handover.

We are based in Marrickville, so the Inner West is where most of our work is — Newtown, Dulwich Hill, Petersham, Leichhardt, Balmain, Ashfield and the surrounding suburbs. Beyond that we cover the Sydney metro area: the north, the eastern suburbs and out through the west. Tell us where the property is and we will tell you straight away whether it is in range. Access and parking usually affect a quote more than distance does.

Yes, and a good deal of our work is on older Sydney housing stock. It changes the sequence rather than the standard — tight access, services that are not where the plans say, walls that are out of square, and sometimes conservation-area controls. We factor those in at quote stage instead of discovering them on site.

It varies by job type, and the honest answer is that approvals and lead times move it more than the building work does. Cabinetry has a lead time. A granny flat waits on an approval pathway. A maintenance list is usually a day or two. We give you the realistic program with the quote, including which stages could move and why.

Call 0404 767 374 or send the enquiry form below with photos and a short description. For maintenance work that is often enough for us to price it; for anything structural we will arrange a site visit. Quotes are free either way.