How to choose a kitchen renovation company in Melbourne
VBA registration, fixed-price contracts, what references to ask for, and the red flags that tell you to walk away before you sign anything.
June 2026 · 7 min readAuthor
Builder · VBA Registered · Melbourne
Frazee T is a VBA-registered builder with over ten years of experience delivering residential construction and development projects across Melbourne.
Qualified through the Master Builders Association of Victoria (MBAV), Frazee has project-managed and built multiple residential properties across Melbourne's inner west and surrounding suburbs, including homes with heritage overlays, structural modifications, and full-scope renovations from demolition to handover.
At gutted., Frazee writes the cost guides and process breakdowns that the team uses internally to scope and price jobs. The same information gets published here because it is what homeowners need before they sit down with a builder. The numbers are real. The process descriptions come from running the jobs, not reading about them.
If a guide on this site says something costs a certain amount or takes a certain amount of time, it is because that is what the job actually costs and takes in metropolitan Melbourne in 2026 — not a national average pulled from a comparison site.
VBA registration, fixed-price contracts, what references to ask for, and the red flags that tell you to walk away before you sign anything.
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