Advice
Foundation advice for Melbourne homeowners
Most people buy foundation work once in their life, which makes it an easy trade to be overcharged in. These guides are written to make you a harder customer to mislead — including ours.
Underpinning
Reactive clay in Melbourne's west, explained
Why a ten-year-old house in Tarneit cracks while a hundred-year-old cottage in Yarraville does not — soil reactivity, AS 2870, and the difference between heave and settlement.
18 August 2026
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Restumping
7 signs your house needs restumping
Sloping floors and sticking doors do not automatically mean restumping. Here is how to read what your house is telling you — and which symptoms point somewhere else entirely.
18 August 2026
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Start with the service that matches your house
- Restumping & reblocking — timber-floored homes on stumps, generally pre-1970.
- Underpinning & foundation repair — brick veneer on a concrete slab, on reactive clay.
- Service areas — the local detail for your suburb.