Melbourne Demolition, Asbestos Removal & Site Preparation — Tips & Guides
Local advice, how-tos and answers from the First Cut Demolition team.
Neighbours, Boundary Walls and Street TreesThe parts of a demolition most likely to cost you money are the ones on the other side of your fence: the shared wall, the nature strip tree, and the neighbour nobody spoke to.Read more →Pool Removal: Full Removal or Partial Fill?Both methods get rid of the pool. Only one of them gives you ground you can build on, and only one of them avoids a conversation with a buyer’s conveyancer later.Read more →Soft Strips and Make-Good: What Commercial Tenants Get WrongMake-good disputes are almost never about the work. They are about the scope — what the lease actually requires, versus what the tenant assumed and what the landlord now wants.Read more →Quote to Clear Block: A Realistic Demolition TimelineThe machine work takes days. Everything in front of it takes months. Here is a realistic sequence from first quote to a cleared, level block, and which steps can run in parallel.Read more →Where Your Demolished House Actually Ends UpMost of a demolished house does not go to landfill. Concrete and brick become road base, steel is remelted, and the sorting that makes that possible is also what keeps disposal costs down.Read more →Narrow Blocks, Tight Access and the Machine That FitsThe single biggest driver of a demolition price is not the size of the house. It is whether a machine can get to it, and what size machine that turns out to be.Read more →What an Asbestos Assessment Actually Finds in a Melbourne HomeSheeting on the garage roof is the obvious one. Vinyl floor tiles, the adhesive under them, meter boards and pipe lagging are the ones that get missed — and missing them mid-demolition stops the job.Read more →Power, Gas and Water: Why Abolishment Takes Longer Than You ThinkTurning the power off does not let a machine near the house. The supply has to be physically removed and certified, and that process runs on weeks. Here is what each utility actually requires.Read more →Section 29A: The Council Consent That Delays Most DemolitionsA demolition permit and a Section 29A consent are two different things from two different bodies, and confusing them costs people weeks. Here is what each one is and which order they happen in.Read more →What House Demolition Really Costs in MelbourneDemolition quotes for the same house can differ by twenty thousand dollars. Here is what actually sits inside the number, which variables move it, and why the cheapest quote is usually the one missing something.Read more →