Bathroom renovations in Hampton Park
Bathroom renovations in Hampton Park 3976 for owners and landlords, covering the 1980s and 1990s stock, budget refits and the certificates you should get.
Hampton Park is mostly a 1980s and 1990s suburb sitting on a much older core. The area around Somerville Road was subdivided after the First World War, the post office opened in 1920 and the primary school in 1922. Large scale subdivision did not start until the 1970s, helped along by the connection to sewerage in 1973, and the suburb then built out through the 1980s and 1990s, with the secondary college established in 1986 and two primary schools east of Hallam Road opening in the 1990s. It filled the affordable end of the southern growth corridor, and it still holds that position, which shapes the bathroom work as much as the building fabric does.
What the houses are
Three groups cover almost everything we quote here.
- The older pockets near Somerville Road, where a handful of genuinely old houses and 1960s and 1970s cottages survive between the newer subdivisions. Wet areas in these are often original, sometimes on a subfloor, and the scope is a rebuild.
- The 1970s and 1980s brick veneer that makes up the bulk of the suburb. One bathroom, a separate toilet, a fibreglass shower base, a steel bath, a laminate vanity and an exhaust fan ducted into the roof space.
- The 1990s streets east of Hallam Road, on smaller lots with narrower frontages, usually a single storey four bedroom with one bathroom and an ensuite the size of a cupboard.
Two of those three groups predate 1990, so the sheeting is tested before a price is fixed. The 1990s stock is past that problem and is the most straightforward work in the suburb.
| Stock | Usual scope | Band |
|---|---|---|
| Pre 1990 brick veneer, owner occupied | Strip to studs, new membrane, new fixtures and tiling | $21,000 to $36,750 |
| Pre 1990 brick veneer, rental refit | Same layout, hard wearing fittings, shortest out of service window | $10,500 to $21,000 |
| 1990s house, main bathroom | Same footprint strip and rebuild | $21,000 to $36,750 |
| 1990s compact ensuite | Rebuild with a wall hung vanity and a screen that suits the space | $14,000 to $25,000 |
Rental refits and the paperwork that should come with them
Hampton Park has a high share of investor owned houses, and a good part of our work here comes through agents rather than owners. The brief on those jobs is different. The owner wants the wet area to last, the tenant wants the bathroom back, and nobody is interested in a designer finish. We quote those as a full strip and rebuild in the existing layout with durable fittings, because patching a failed shower in a tenanted house means doing the job twice.
Tenanted work also has to be programmed around a household that is still living there. We give a fixed out of service window for the bathroom rather than a start date and a shrug, agree access times with the tenant through the agent, and keep the separate toilet working wherever the layout allows. An agent gets the same written scope the owner does, so there is one document behind the invoice and the rent adjustment.
Landlords should keep every certificate the trades issue with the property file. Which ones apply, at what point, and who has to lodge them is listed on what the law requires, along with the value thresholds that decide whether a written contract is compulsory.
Why a cheap shower repair is usually a false economy here
The most common request we get in this suburb is a quote to re grout and re silicone a shower that is leaking into the hallway. On a house of this age that is money spent on the symptom. A shower of that vintage has already had double the service life a membrane is built for, so new grout stops the visible water for a few months while the bottom plate and the floor sheeting keep getting wet, and the repair bill grows. Shower repairs and waterproofing explains the checks that tell us whether a shower is genuinely repairable, and there are a few cases where it is.
Access, parking and the skip
The 1990s streets east of Hallam Road are the tightest. Narrow frontages, single width driveways and cars parked on both sides mean a standard bin often will not fit on the property, so a mini skip on the drive or a short barrow to the kerb is the usual answer. Where the bin cannot stand on the property at all, Casey’s asset protection and skip bin permits come into it, and we confirm the current fee when the bin is booked. Battleaxe blocks and units set behind a long drive add carry distance for the strip out and the tile delivery, which we allow for in the quote rather than discovering on the day. Somerville Road and Hallam Road are slow around school times, so deliveries are booked outside them.
What it costs
A full bathroom strip and rebuild in Hampton Park usually lands between $10,500 to $21,000 for a compact or rental grade job and $21,000 to $36,750 for an owner occupied bathroom with better fittings. Individual items that come up often are a vanity supplied and installed at $500 to $3,700, wall tiling at $75 to $165 per m2 and floor tiling at $90 to $190 per m2. The cost guide explains what pushes a job between the bands.
Agents and owners get the same thing here: an inspection first, then a written fixed price, back inside a day. Start with the quote form.