Award-Winning Custom Home Renovations in Hobart

Honestly, it depends entirely on scope, and anyone who quotes you a figure before seeing your home is guessing. What we can tell you is the shape of the work we do: our recent renovation projects have ranged from additions under $200,000 through to whole-home renovations and extensions in the $400,000 to $850,000 range and beyond.

Rather than guess, we produce a Feasibility Study. It sets out the expected cost of your project including external consultants, and explains exactly how we charge and why. You get a realistic number before you’re committed, not after.

We try very hard to find them before work starts. Our site discovery process is deliberately thorough, and where we identify likely issues we tell you before contracts are signed, even when it makes our estimate less competitive than the builder down the road.

When something genuinely unexpected does emerge, we stop, explain what we’ve found and how it happened, and present you with options. You make the call.

This is exactly the conversation to have with us before you spend money on a designer. Sometimes the existing structure is sound and a renovation delivers far more for the money. Sometimes what’s already there is compromised enough that you’re better off starting again.

A large amount of construction plans in Tasmania never get built, largely because people design first and discover the cost second. We’d rather have an honest conversation with you at the beginning than watch you spend $30,000 to $70,000 on plans for something that doesn’t stack up.

Sometimes, depending on the scope and which parts of the home are affected. For substantial renovations involving the kitchen, bathrooms or structural work, most families move out. We’ll be straight with you about this during the planning stage, because where you’ll live and what it will cost you is part of your real budget, not a detail to sort out later. We plan our programmes with your handover date in mind for exactly this reason.

Yes, and this is an area we’ve deliberately built expertise in. Condensation and poor ventilation are the most common underlying problems in Southern Tasmanian homes, and they’re frequently misdiagnosed as leaks.

We use permeable products, battened cavities and mechanical ventilation where necessary to give moisture a way out, alongside comprehensive waterproofing where water needs to be kept out. Fixing the symptom without fixing the cause just delays the problem.

Most substantial renovations and extensions run between four and twelve months depending on scope, though this varies considerably with structural work, council requirements and what we find once we open things up.

We give you a realistic timeline during planning and we work to it. Hakea, our recent Tolmans Hill renovation, was contracted for a February handover and we delivered it in mid-December.

Yes, and we welcome it. We also add value during the design stage by flagging practical and structural issues before they become expensive. Our best outcomes come from being brought in early, while changes are still cheap to make.

Throughout Southern Tasmania. Recent renovation work includes Tolmans Hill, Sandy Bay, West Hobart, Bellerive, Lindisfarne, Kingston, Blackmans Bay and Mornington, and we work across Hobart’s established suburbs where most of the housing stock that benefits from renovation is located.

Call Brad Goodwin on 0408 999 291 or use the contact form below. The first conversation is low-pressure. We’ll talk about what you’re trying to achieve, look at your home, and tell you honestly whether we’re the right builder for it. If we’re not, we’ll say so.