Home Renovations · Ermington
Home renovations in Ermington, done properly.
Complete home renovations for Ermington homeowners by a licensed builder. A typical full transformation runs $180,000 to $450,000, itemised quote, honest programme, one builder from concept to handover.
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Complete transformations
More than cosmetic updates.
A home renovation is an opportunity to completely redefine how you live. Strava Group delivers high end home renovations across Ermington and the Parramatta and Ryde districts, transforming established homes into refined, contemporary residences, managed as complete projects from concept through to completion.
Rather than renovating room by room, we approach each Ermington project as a unified transformation: layout reconfigurations, designer kitchens, luxury bathrooms, flooring, lighting, windows and street presence, all working together. The result is a home that feels intentional, balanced and built to a higher standard.
Ermington is full of solid 1950s homes on flat blocks that have never been properly touched. That makes it one of the best value renovations in the district: honest structure, simple access, and everything to gain.
Quick Answer
Ground floor renovation work runs $2,500 to $4,500 per square metre, with roughly $30,000 in preliminaries (design, engineering and council approvals, plus site set-up) on top. A full internal renovation of a typical Ermington home generally falls between $180,000 and $450,000, and the flat blocks and simple structure here tend to keep projects toward the lower and middle part of that range.
Renovating in Ermington
What shapes a renovation in Ermington.
Ermington is post-war brick and weatherboard on flat, regular blocks, and the simplicity of the sites keeps renovations efficient. Here is what shapes a project locally.
Council
City of Parramatta
Ermington sits within the City of Parramatta Council. Internal renovations that keep the structure and footprint often need no approval at all under Exempt Development, and structural changes usually qualify for a Complying Development Certificate through a private certifier. Flood controls on the low blocks toward the river are the main exception.
Housing
Post-war brick and weatherboard
Predominantly 1950s and 60s brick veneer, full brick and weatherboard homes from the post-war housing push. Compact kitchens at the rear, separate living and dining, one bathroom, and a laundry out the back. Honest houses with dated plans, which is exactly the stock where a complete renovation transforms the whole house.
Structure
Simple structure, few surprises
Brick veneer and weatherboard homes of this era are structurally straightforward, with timber frames that take new openings well once engineered. Weatherboard homes renovate beautifully when the linings and insulation are done properly. We still check and rectify the frame before anything goes back on, because sixty years of settlement leaves its marks.
Layout
Small rooms, big potential
The Ermington plan is a set of small separate rooms with the kitchen at the back. The renovation gain is in the flow: opening kitchen, dining and living into one space, adding a second bathroom, and connecting the living to the flat backyard these blocks all have. Most of those walls are structural, and we engineer them out properly.
Services
Post-war services due for replacement
Homes of this vintage often carry original switchboards, cloth-insulated or early plastic wiring and galvanised plumbing. A full renovation is the one moment these can be replaced without ripping open finished rooms, and we assess them up front rather than mid build.
Value
The value play of the district
Ermington sits between Parramatta and Ryde with the river, the ferry at Melrose Park and improving transport lifting demand, from one of the friendlier entry points in the district. A properly renovated home here captures that growth, and the transformation costs far less than trading up once stamp duty and agent fees are counted.
Thinking bigger than a renovation? We also build second storey additions and home extensions in Ermington, and staging them alongside a renovation costs less than doing them years apart.
Start here
Tell us about your Ermington home.
No sales pitch, no obligation. Here is exactly what happens when you enquire:
One at a time, takes about two minutes, so the first conversation is about your project rather than the basics.
The Strava standard
How we build differently.
We build for longevity. That sounds like a slogan until you see where it costs us money. On every Ermington renovation we run:
The existing structure gets rectified, not covered
Plenty of renovations put new gyprock over old problems and hope for the best. We do a full screw off and re-brace the whole house, tying new and existing structure together so the frame moves as one and future cracking is designed out, not painted over.
Furring channels for a dead flat finish
We install furring channels throughout, creating a perfectly level plane for the new linings regardless of what the old frame is doing behind them. Flat on handover day, still flat in raking afternoon light years later.
Waterproofing is a documented hold point
Wet areas are inspected and photographed before a single tile goes on, to AS 3740.
Blocking installed at frame stage
Extra noggins and fixings go in where vanities, TVs, handrails and shower screens will hang later, not chased in afterwards.
Every new-to-existing junction properly detailed
This is where most renovations crack. It is almost always a detailing shortcut, not settlement. Ours get a proper flashing and movement detail.
Everything photographed before it is covered
You receive the record at handover, so in ten years you know exactly what is behind your walls.
Honest numbers
What a renovation costs in Ermington.
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.
| Item | Typical range |
|---|---|
| Full internal renovation, typical Ermington home | $180k–$450k |
| Ground floor renovation work | $2,500–$4,500 /m² |
| Work at first floor level | $3,500–$5,500 /m² |
| Preliminaries, on top of build cost | approx. $30,000 |
Ermington projects often sit toward the lower and middle part of the range: flat blocks, simple structure and workable access keep builds efficient.
How many of the walls you want gone are structural is usually the largest single factor, followed by the number of wet areas, since a bathroom carries more trades per square metre than any other room in the house. Post-war homes frequently need rewiring and plumbing replacement, priced up front rather than discovered mid build.
Every project is quoted properly after a site inspection. These ranges are here so you can decide whether it is worth a conversation.
Good to know
Ermington renovation questions.
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