Home Renovations · Hornsby
Home renovations in Hornsby, done properly.
Complete home renovations for Hornsby 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 Hornsby 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 Hornsby 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
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“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.”
“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.”
“I highly recommend Strava Group to everyone great workmanship, reliable service, and I couldn’t be happier with the result.”
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 Hornsby and Hornsby Shire, 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 Hornsby 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.
Renovating in Hornsby
What shapes a renovation in Hornsby.
Hornsby is the centre of the shire, with Federation streets near the line, post-war brick and weatherboard across the rest, and bushland at the end of half the streets. Here is what shapes a renovation locally.
Hornsby Shire
Hornsby sits within Hornsby Shire Council. Internal renovations that keep the structure and footprint often need no approval at all under Exempt Development. Structural changes usually qualify for a Complying Development Certificate through a private certifier, with heritage items, some conservation streets and bushfire prone blocks backing the reserves going to a DA. We confirm the pathway for your property before quoting.
Federation to post-war, brick and weatherboard
Federation and interwar homes on the older streets either side of the highway, a broad stock of 1950s to 70s brick veneer, full brick and weatherboard, and later homes on the larger bush blocks. Dated kitchens, single bathrooms and compartmentalised plans throughout. Exactly the stock where a complete renovation transforms the whole house.
Honest frames, varied eras
The post-war brick veneer is structurally straightforward, the older full brick needs engineered openings and careful propping, and the weatherboard homes renovate beautifully when linings and insulation are done properly. Behind the linings, sixty years of partial renovations are common. We check and rectify the structure before anything goes back on.
Separate rooms, disconnected yards
Hornsby homes were planned as separate rooms with the kitchen at the back and no relationship to the big leafy blocks behind them. The renovation gain is in the flow: opening kitchen, dining and living into one space, adding the bathrooms a family needs, and pointing the living at the garden. Most of those walls are structural, and we engineer them out properly.
Original services approaching their limit
Homes of this vintage often carry original switchboards, aging 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.
The shire centre, holding demand
Hornsby has the train line, Westfield, the hospital and strong school catchments holding demand, and the detached streets behind the centre are where families want to be. A solid home with a properly renovated interior is exactly what buyers here pay for, and the transformation costs far less than trading up once stamp duty and agent fees are counted.
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 Hornsby 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 Hornsby.
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.
Hornsby projects usually sit in the middle of the range, with the varied housing eras deciding whether the structural and services work is light or substantial.
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 and older 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.
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Renovate your Hornsby home properly.
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