One crew, one contract, start to finish. Kensington's narrow-fronted workers' cottages usually have original bathrooms that predate modern waterproofing entirely. We know what we're walking into before we quote.
Full membrane to Australian Standard, planned around narrow-frontage plumbing runs. The part that gets skipped elsewhere.
Floor to ceiling or feature tiling. Our tiler, not a sub. Fixed price, precision layout.
Measured, built and installed to fit your actual floorplan, not a stock size.
Screens, mixers, rails and fittings selected and fitted to a fixed budget.
Rough-in and final connections. Licensed trades. All work inspected and compliant.
The number we agree on before we start is the number you pay. No surprises, no additions.
Quoted in writing before we start. The number we agree on is the number you pay.
Narrow-fronted workers' cottages built for the old Newmarket Saleyards workforce, a recent City of Melbourne heritage review (Amendment C215) covering 570 buildings. We check your property's status before we quote, not after.
We say the thing, then stop. No jargon, no runaround. We pick up the phone.
“I relocated interstate with two dogs and never thought a new home could feel like me, but they took me under their wing, kept me updated the whole way, and let me customise everything from the flooring to the kitchen layout. Genuine, passionate, and a pleasure to deal with.”
It's worth checking, and this catches more owners than you'd expect. The City of Melbourne recently completed Amendment C215, an independent heritage assessment of 570 buildings across Kensington, in the area bounded by Eastwood Street, Macaulay Road, Stubbs Street and Racecourse Road. It introduced new individual heritage places and precincts that didn't exist under the previous overlay. Internal bathroom work is usually unaffected, but we confirm your specific address status at the site visit.
It comes down to what the suburb was built for. Kensington grew up around the Newmarket Saleyards and City Abattoirs, once Victoria's largest public abattoirs, and the late 19th century workers' cottages and terraces built to house the labourers were simple brick structures with narrow frontages, aligned in tight rows. That layout shapes what's realistic for a bathroom renovation, particularly around plumbing runs and ventilation. We assess your specific block at the site visit.
Yes, and it's a large part of what we do. Original bathrooms in these narrow-fronted brick cottages predate modern waterproofing membranes entirely, and ventilation was often an afterthought in the original build. We check what's actually there before we quote, not after we've pulled the tiles off.
A bathroom renovation in Kensington typically runs $18,000 to $40,000. Standard scope (like-for-like layout, mid-range tiling and fittings) starts at $18,000 to $25,000. Full reconfiguration with layout changes in a narrow-fronted cottage runs $28,000 to $40,000. We give you a written fixed-price quote after a site visit, not an estimate from photos.
Yes. gutted. is a VBA registered building practitioner (Victorian Building Authority) and fully insured for domestic building work in Victoria. We provide our registration details before you sign anything.
A rough scope is all we need. We come to you, look at the job, and give you a written fixed-price quote. We do not price from photos.
