Home Extensions · West Pennant Hills NSW 2125
Home extensions in West Pennant Hills, done properly.
Rear and side house extensions for West Pennant Hills homes by a licensed extension builder. Most extensions run $70,000 to $300,000 depending on size and how much of the existing house has to change, itemised quote, honest programme, one builder from concept to handover.
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Tell us about your West Pennant Hills home.
No sales pitch, no obligation. Here is exactly what happens when you enquire:
- 1Answer a few quick questions. One at a time, takes about two minutes, so the first conversation is about your project rather than the basics.
- 2We call you within 24 to 48 business hours. A builder, not a salesperson. Then we walk your home and yard with you on site in West Pennant Hills.
- 3You receive a written, itemised estimate. Real numbers for your home. If the project does not stack up, we tell you that too.
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Extending out, not up
West Pennant Hills blocks were made for extending.
Strava Group builds home extensions in West Pennant Hills: rear additions, side extensions and whole-of-back transformations that open the house to the garden. West Pennant Hills has some of the largest residential blocks we build on, with 1970s, 80s and 90s brick homes set back on leafy sites, many of them sloping toward Cumberland State Forest and the creek lines. The land is there, the houses are mostly single storey at the rear, and a well planned extension puts that land to work.
In West Pennant Hills we regularly deliver:
- Rear extensions and additions
- Side extensions on wider blocks
- Open plan kitchen, dining and living
- Alfresco and indoor-outdoor connections
- New master suites and family rooms
- Laundries, mudrooms and storage done properly
- Structural openings between old and new
- Exterior upgrades to tie old and new together
Thinking about going up instead? That is a different build with different engineering, and we do that too: see second storey additions in West Pennant Hills.
Local knowledge
What we know about extending in West Pennant Hills.
Every suburb builds a little differently. This is what matters when you are extending a West Pennant Hills home.
Council
West Pennant Hills sits in The Hills Shire Council area under The Hills Local Environmental Plan 2019 and the Hills Development Control Plan. Most detached homes on standard residential zoning can pursue a ground floor extension through Complying Development with a private certifier rather than a full DA, subject to setbacks, site coverage and landscaped area. Bushfire prone blocks backing the forest and the creek reserves go to a DA. We confirm the pathway for your property before quoting. Current planning controls are published by Hills Shire Council and on the NSW Planning Portal.
Housing stock
Predominantly full brick and brick veneer homes from the 1970s through the 1990s, many of them substantial, on large blocks, with some earlier homes near Pennant Hills Road and later two storey houses on the newer streets. The older homes usually have compact kitchens at the rear, formal living and dining rooms, and a back door onto a patio. That is exactly the layout an extension is designed to fix.
Structure
Brick veneer homes of this era are straightforward to extend, with timber framed walls and trussed roofs that take a new structural opening well once the load path is engineered. Full brick homes need more care at the junction: we cut the openings cleanly, install engineered steel and tie the new frame into the existing brickwork properly. Split level homes, common on the sloping blocks, need the new floor levels planned carefully against the existing ones.
Yard and block
Blocks in West Pennant Hills are typically 900 to 1,500 square metres and often larger, many of them sloping and heavily treed. The trees are protected under council controls and usually shape where the extension can go. The size of the block means a substantial rear extension is possible while keeping a real garden, and on the steeper blocks the extension often steps down the site.
Services and ground
West Pennant Hills sits on shale derived clay over Hawkesbury sandstone, with the rock close to the surface on the slopes toward the forest and the creeks. Footing design varies across a single block, so the engineering is done for your site, and new footings are detailed against the existing ones so the extension does not settle away from the house. Bushfire construction requirements apply on the blocks backing the bush, and sewer lines often run along the rear boundary.
Value
West Pennant Hills is one of the most tightly held family suburbs in the Hills, with the school catchments, the forest and the block sizes protecting its value. Buyers pay for substantial homes on big blocks that have been extended properly at the rear, and a considered extension that opens the house to the garden is one of the safest improvements in the suburb.
The Strava standard
How we build differently.
An extension lives or dies at the junction between old and new. We build for longevity, and on every West Pennant Hills extension we run:
Every new-to-existing junction properly detailed
This is where most extensions crack, leak and part company with the house. It is almost always a detailing shortcut, not settlement. Ours get a proper structural tie, flashing and movement detail.
The existing structure gets rectified, not covered
Where the extension meets the house, we screw off and re-brace the adjoining structure, tying new and old together so the whole building moves as one and future cracking is designed out, not painted over.
Footings matched to the ground, not the minimum
New footings are engineered for your soil and detailed against the existing ones, because differential movement between old and new slabs is the classic extension failure, and the mix of clay and shallow sandstone across West Pennant Hills means the engineering is done for your site, not copied from a neighbour.
Furring channels for a dead flat finish
Where new ceilings and walls run through to existing rooms, furring channels give one level plane across both, so you cannot see where the house ends and the extension begins.
Waterproofing is a documented hold point
New wet areas are inspected and photographed before a single tile goes on, to AS 3740, and new roof-to-old-roof junctions get the same treatment.
Everything photographed before it is covered
You receive the record at handover, so in ten years you know exactly what is behind your walls and under your floor.
Before starting Strava Group, I spent seven years on the tools as a carpenter and five years running sites. The failures I kept seeing in extensions were always at the join: cracked cornices along the old wall line, roofs that leaked where new met old, floors that stepped as slabs settled differently. None of it was illegal. All of it was avoidable. None of this shows up in a finished-room photo. All of it shows up in year seven.
Honest numbers
What a house extension actually costs in West Pennant Hills.
Most builders will not put numbers on a website. We will, because the alternative is wasting your time and ours across three meetings before anyone mentions a figure.
Preliminaries are the costs that exist before a single wall moves: site fencing, temporary services, waste removal, insurances, engineering and supervision. They are real, they are unavoidable, and a quote that does not show them separately has either buried them or forgotten them.
In West Pennant Hills the large blocks and substantial houses tend to put projects in the middle and upper part of the band, with protected trees, sloping sites and bushfire requirements on some blocks adding design and engineering work. How much of the existing structure has to change is usually the largest single factor, followed by wet areas and how far footings have to go to find rock.
Every project is quoted properly after a site inspection. These ranges are here so you can decide whether it is worth a conversation.
Nearby We build extensions across the Hills and the surrounding northern suburbs. Select a suburb for local council information and what extensions there typically cost. Looking for a different service in West Pennant Hills? We also build second storey additions in West Pennant Hills and home renovations in West Pennant Hills.
Home extensions near West Pennant Hills.
The Hills and surrounds
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West Pennant Hills extension questions.
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