North End2025
Double-Height Rear Addition
A dark, closed-in clapboard century home opened up with a double-height rear addition, a new kitchen and a 20-foot run of glazing to the back yard.
- Duration
- 16 weeks
Hammonds Plains · 2024
Custom Two-Storey New Build
A custom build on a sloping lot over shallow bedrock. Four bedrooms, a double garage and a south-facing living wing to capture winter sun.
- Location
- Hammonds Plains, Bedford & Sackville
- Service
- New Builds
- Completed
- 2024
- Time on site
- 11 months
The brief
A custom two-storey family home on a sloping Hammonds Plains block, working to an architect's documented drawings. The clients had a hard handover date because their rental lease was ending.
The challenge
The fall across the lot was just over ten feet, which meant significant retaining and a stepped slab design. Sloping sites are where new-build budgets usually blow out, so the engineering had to be resolved before we priced the job rather than after.
What we did
Full site and soil assessment, engineered retaining and a stepped slab, then slab-frame-roof-lockup and a complete internal fit-out including all joinery. One supervisor for the entire eleven months, weekly photo updates, and stage claims tied to completed and inspected work.
The result
Handed over on the date given at contract signing eleven months earlier. The clients' architect described it as the cleanest site he had worked with in years.
Gallery
On site and finished
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Tell us what you want to build
A site visit, a proper measure and a fixed-price quote, at no cost and with no obligation. If your budget will not stretch to your brief, we will tell you at the first meeting.
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