Home Renovations Gladesville

Renovated two storey home in Gladesville by Strava Group with brick and weatherboard exterior

Home Renovations · Gladesville

Home renovations in Gladesville, done properly.

Complete home renovations for Gladesville 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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Tell us about your Gladesville 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 Gladesville home with you on site.
  • 3You receive a written, itemised estimate. Real numbers for your home. If the project does not stack up, we tell you that too.

From our clients

Rated 5.0 on Google.

★★★★★

“We had Strava Group complete major renovation works on our property and were blown away with the quality. The attention to detail and overall finish were amazing.”

Aloona T.
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“Great communication, honest work, easy to work with, highly recommend to work with for any new build/renovations. If you are looking to get work done without worrying about shortcuts Strava Group is builder to use.”

Orom Gabriel
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“I highly recommend Strava Group to everyone great workmanship, reliable service, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.”

Jonathan
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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 Gladesville and the surrounding riverside suburbs, 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 Gladesville 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.

On most Gladesville homes, Federation or post war, the biggest single gain is not the kitchen. It is connecting the closed rooms into open living that faces the light and, on the southern streets, the river.

Renovating in Gladesville

What shapes a renovation in Gladesville.

Gladesville slopes to the Parramatta River and sits across two councils, and the renovations that work here are designed around both facts. Here is what shapes a project locally.

Council

Two councils, one suburb

Gladesville is split between the City of Ryde and Hunters Hill Council, with the boundary running through the suburb. Internal renovations often need no approval under Exempt Development either side, but Hunters Hill’s controls lean protective, so the first thing we confirm is which council your block actually answers to.

Housing

Federation, interwar and post war brick

Away from the apartments on Victoria Road, Gladesville is Federation homes, interwar bungalows and solid post war brick: good houses, dated layouts. Closed kitchens, dark hallways, living rooms that ignore the outlook. Exactly the stock where a considered renovation transforms daily life while the character stays.

Structure

A century of settlement behind the linings

Federation era framing has usually seen a hundred years of movement, previous renovations and undocumented alterations. We check and rectify the structure before anything goes back on, tie new work properly to old, and detail every junction so the finished walls stay flat and crack free.

Layout

Work with the slope, not against it

The renovation that works in Gladesville keeps the facade the street loves and reorients the living toward the light and, on the river side, the view. On blocks falling to the water that often means rethinking levels as well as walls, and most of the walls involved are structural. We engineer them out properly while respecting how the original house carries its loads.

Services

Wiring and plumbing from another era

Century old homes frequently carry generations of patched wiring, galvanised plumbing and undersized switchboards. 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

A suburb worth reinvesting in

Nine kilometres from the CBD with the river at the bottom of the hill, Gladesville values support serious renovation spend, and a well renovated home with the living turned to the light is the most sought after product in the suburb. A complete transformation typically 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 in Gladesville and home extensions in Gladesville, and staging them alongside a renovation costs less than doing them years apart.

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 Gladesville 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 Gladesville.

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.

Full internal renovation, typical Gladesville 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 costapprox. $30,000

Federation homes reward care and punish shortcuts, and renovating one properly costs more per square metre than a seventies project home. Matching period joinery, plaster detail and roof junctions takes trade skill, and it is exactly the work we enjoy most. Sloping blocks and tight side access can add to preliminaries, priced up front rather than discovered mid build.

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. Century old homes frequently need full rewiring and replumbing, 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.


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Good to know

Gladesville renovation questions.

How much does a home renovation cost in Gladesville?
Ground floor renovation work runs $2,500 to $4,500 per square metre, with roughly $30,000 in preliminaries on top. A full internal renovation of a typical Gladesville home generally falls between $180,000 and $450,000, with period detail work adding to that on Federation homes. Structural changes, wet areas and the age of the existing services move the figure most.
Do I need council approval to renovate in Gladesville?
Internal renovations that do not alter the structure or footprint often need no approval at all, even on conservation streets, because those controls mainly govern what the street sees. Changes to the external appearance, roofline or envelope go through either the City of Ryde or Hunters Hill Council depending on where your block sits, and Hunters Hill’s side leans protective. We confirm which pathway applies to your property before quoting.
How long does a full renovation take in Gladesville?
Most full internal renovations run 16 to 30 weeks on site. Design and any approvals happen before that and can add anywhere from a few weeks to a few months depending on the pathway. We give you a programme with the quote, not after you have signed.
Can I live in the house during the renovation?
Sometimes, if the work is staged and at least one bathroom and kitchen stay operational. For a full internal renovation we generally recommend moving out. It is faster, cheaper and safer, and the cost of six months of rent is often less than the cost of the delays that come from working around an occupied home.
Is renovating my Gladesville home cheaper than knocking down and rebuilding?
In Gladesville the answer is usually renovation: on the conservation streets, demolishing a contributory period home is rarely approvable, and few owners want to. Done well, renovation delivers the contemporary home inside the character home. Where structure has genuinely failed, we tell you honestly what that means for the budget.
Do you provide a fixed price contract?
Yes. We quote from a documented scope and provide a fixed price contract with a defined provisional sum allowance for items that genuinely cannot be priced until walls are opened, usually existing services and unknown structural conditions. Those allowances are listed openly rather than hidden in the total.
What happens after I enquire?
We review your enquiry and call you within 24 to 48 business hours to arrange a consultation at your Gladesville home. A builder walks the property with you, then prepares a written, itemised estimate. There is no cost and no obligation at any point before you choose to proceed.
How will I know what is happening during my renovation?
Two ways. You get a weekly update from the builder running your job, whether or not there is good news in it. And you get access to our client portal, where you can log in any time to see your documents, selections, variations and job status. No chasing, no phone tag, no wondering.
Are you licensed and insured?
Yes. Strava Group holds NSW Builder’s Licence 487370C and carries public liability insurance and Home Building Compensation Fund cover on all residential work over the statutory threshold. You can verify the licence directly through Service NSW.

Renovate your Gladesville home properly.

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Tell us about your property and what you want to change. We respond within 24 to 48 business hours with honest advice and real numbers, no cost, no obligation.