Home Renovations Pennant Hills

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

Home Renovations · Pennant Hills

Home renovations in Pennant Hills, done properly.

Complete home renovations for Pennant Hills 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 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 Pennant Hills 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.

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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.”

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 Pennant Hills and the surrounding district, 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 Pennant Hills 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 Pennant Hills homes built from the fifties through eighties, the biggest single gain is not the kitchen. It is the wall between the kitchen and the living room, and where the light lands once it is gone.

Renovating in Pennant Hills

What shapes a renovation in Pennant Hills.

Pennant Hills is established family homes on big leafy blocks, and much of the housing is now at exactly the age where a complete renovation makes sense. Here is what shapes a project locally.

Council

Hornsby Shire

Pennant Hills sits within Hornsby Shire Council. Internal renovations that keep the structure and footprint often need no approval at all under Exempt Development, and where structural changes are involved, most Pennant Hills homes sit outside heritage overlays, so the faster Complying Development pathway is usually available.

Housing

Fifties to eighties homes, ready for a second life

Pennant Hills is post war brick, clad cottages and seventies full brick through the leafy streets: solid bones, dated layouts. Small kitchens walled off from living areas, formal rooms nobody uses, bathrooms from another era. Exactly the stock where opening the plan transforms the whole house.

Structure

Good frames, hidden surprises

The framing of this era is generally sound, but decades of settlement, previous handyman renovations and undocumented alterations are common behind the linings. We check and rectify the structure before anything goes back on, so the finished walls stay flat.

Layout

Big footprints, poor flow

Pennant Hills homes are rarely short on floor area. The renovation gain is in the flow: removing the walls between kitchen, dining and living, opening the rear to the yard, and turning unused formal rooms into space the family actually lives in. Most of those walls are structural, and we engineer them out properly.

Services

Wiring and plumbing of a certain age

Homes of this vintage often carry original switchboards, aging wiring and galvanised or early copper 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

A suburb worth reinvesting in

With the train line, the schools and the bushland that gives the suburb its character, Pennant Hills values support serious renovation spend. A complete transformation typically costs far less than trading up within the suburb once stamp duty and agent fees are counted, and you keep the block you already own.

Thinking bigger than a renovation? We also build second storey additions in Pennant Hills and home extensions in Pennant Hills, 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 Pennant Hills 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 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.

Full internal renovation, typical Pennant Hills 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

Pennant Hills blocks are generous and the homes spread across them, which pushes total cost up but brings the per square metre rate down: bigger areas spread the fixed costs further. Sloping bush blocks can add access considerations we price up front.

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. Homes from the fifties through seventies frequently need switchboard and plumbing upgrades, priced up front.

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

Pennant Hills renovation questions.

How much does a home renovation cost in Pennant Hills?
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 Pennant Hills home generally falls between $180,000 and $450,000. Structural changes, wet areas and the age of the existing services are the things that move that figure most.
Do I need council approval to renovate in Pennant Hills?
Internal renovations that do not alter the structure or footprint often fall under Exempt Development and need no approval. Structural changes usually qualify for a Complying Development Certificate through a private certifier, since most Pennant Hills homes sit outside heritage overlays. Larger changes to the building envelope may need a DA through Hornsby Shire Council. We confirm which pathway applies to your property before quoting.
How long does a full renovation take in Pennant Hills?
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 Pennant Hills home cheaper than knocking down and rebuilding?
Usually. Pennant Hills’ brick and clad homes typically have sound structure and workable footprints, which is exactly the profile where renovating runs 30 to 40 per cent cheaper than a knockdown rebuild. If the footings are failing or you want a substantially different footprint, a rebuild can be better value. We will tell you which one your house is.
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 Pennant Hills 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 Pennant Hills home properly.

Ready to transform how your home works?

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.