How long does a full renovation take in Penshurst?

Most full internal renovations run 16 to 30 weeks on site. Design and any approvals happen before that: a CDC takes about 4 to 8 weeks, and a DA can take up to 6 months, depending on council. 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 Penshurst home cheaper than knocking down and rebuilding?

Almost always. Penshurst interwar and post-war brick 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 compete, and we will tell you honestly which one your house is.

What kind of building contract do you use?

We use a fixed price (lump sum) building contract, agreed before signing. The scope is documented, the inclusions and exclusions are itemised, and any provisional allowances for items that genuinely cannot be priced until walls are opened 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 Penshurst 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 Verify NSW at verify.licence.nsw.gov.au.

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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 Penshurst and the St George area, 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 Penshurst 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.

The classic Penshurst renovation is a solid interwar brick bungalow with a beautiful front and a working half that was never as good: small kitchen, one bathroom, an enclosed verandah doing jobs it was never built for. Keep the front. Rebuild how the house lives.

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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 Penshurst home generally falls between $180,000 and $450,000, and the workable blocks and honest structure here tend to keep projects toward the lower and middle part of that range.

Renovating in Penshurst

What shapes a renovation in Penshurst.

Penshurst is classic St George: interwar bungalows and post-war full brick on deep blocks, at a friendlier entry point than the waterfront suburbs nearby. Here is what shapes a renovation locally.

Council

Georges River Council

Penshurst sits within the Georges River Council area. 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, with heritage items the main exception.

Housing

Interwar bungalows and post-war full brick

Interwar brick bungalows and Federation cottages on the older streets near the station, and a large stock of 1950s and 60s full brick and brick veneer built by the families who settled here. Good bones, dated working halves. Exactly the stock where a complete renovation transforms the whole house.

Structure

Double brick and full brick, handled properly

Older Penshurst homes are double brick on suspended timber floors, and the post-war stock is often full brick on a slab. Cutting new openings needs engineered lintels and careful propping, and new floors have to meet old suspended floors exactly. We check and rectify the structure before anything goes back on.

Layout

Good rooms, wrong arrangement

Penshurst homes have generous front rooms and a cramped working half at the back. The renovation gain is in the flow: opening kitchen, dining and living into one connected space, bringing a second bathroom and a real laundry into the plan, and connecting the living to the deep backyard. 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 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 St George

Penshurst has the station, the schools and the village strip holding demand at a friendlier entry point than the waterfront suburbs either side. A properly renovated home here captures the gap, 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 Penshurst, and staging them alongside a renovation costs less than doing them years apart.

Start here

Tell us about your Penshurst 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.

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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 Penshurst 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 Penshurst.

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 Penshurst 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

Penshurst projects often sit toward the lower and middle part of the range: the blocks are workable, the structure is honest and access is rarely a problem.

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. Older brick homes frequently need switchboard and plumbing upgrades, 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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