Walk-up unit renovations
Bathroom and kitchen refits in the 1930s–70s blocks along the beaches — core holes for new waste and water, chases for the rewire, all with a building manager watching.
Eastern Suburbs · Sydney
Concrete cutting
Eastern Suburbs
The Eastern Suburbs are our home patch. Between the beachside walk-up blocks, the Federation semis and the terraces off Oxford Street, most of what gets cut out here is old, solid and attached to someone else’s wall — so it pays to have a crew that has worked in these streets before.
Local work
What do we get called out for in the Eastern Suburbs?
Balcony and drainage cores
Penetrations through balcony slabs and retaining walls for new drainage on blocks where the original falls never worked.
Split-system installs
Wall penetrations for air-con pipe runs through double brick, cored clean so the installer is not chipping his way through.
Terrace rewires
Chases for power, data and mains runs in party walls and sandstone-footed terraces, cut to depth and no further.
Driveways and crossings
Saw cuts through old concrete driveways and paths for new crossings, drainage and pit connections.
Strata compliance work
Fire-rated penetrations, hydrant and sprinkler cores, and remedial cutting on blocks under a building report.
Wall chasing · Eastern Suburbs
Do you do wall chasing in the Eastern Suburbs?
Yes. Almost every house out here is double brick, and almost every renovation needs services run through it. Chasing is the bulk of what we do in the Eastern Suburbs — straight channels cut to the conduit, with the dust pulled off the tool rather than through the house.
- Rewires. Chases for new circuits, power points and lighting in homes that have not been touched since the original wiring went in.
- Switchboard upgrades. Mains and sub-main runs chased from the board out, sized to the conduit going in.
- Data and comms. Conduit runs for data, TV, security and intercom, kept clear of the power.
- Air-con pipe runs. Chases and cores so split-system lines run inside the wall instead of down the outside of it.
- Plumbing and hydronic. Channels for water lines and small waste runs in brick and block.
Core drilling · Eastern Suburbs
Do you do core drilling in the Eastern Suburbs?
Yes. Coring in the Eastern Suburbs mostly means old suspended slabs and solid double brick, in buildings where the flat below is occupied. Wet coring, sealed rigs and a clean hole exactly where it is marked.
- Bathroom and kitchen waste. Slab cores for new waste and water lines, sized to the pipe and sleeve.
- Air-conditioning. Wall cores through double brick for split-system pipe and drain runs.
- Balcony and stormwater. Penetrations through balcony slabs and retaining walls for new drainage.
- Balustrades and handrails. Accurate footing holes for posts and stanchions, drilled plumb and to depth.
- Strata and fire services. Cores for hydrant, sprinkler and riser upgrades in apartment blocks.
Road sawing · Eastern Suburbs
Do you do road sawing in the Eastern Suburbs?
Yes. Getting services into an Eastern Suburbs property usually means going through the driveway, the footpath or the road. Road sawing gives the excavator a clean, straight, deep line to dig to, so the reinstatement looks like it was always there.
- Service trenches. Cuts for water, sewer, stormwater, power and comms runs across driveways, verges and roads.
- Driveway crossings. Straight cuts through existing pavement so a new crossing ties in properly.
- Kerb and gutter. Clean cuts for kerb, gutter and layback removal ahead of a new crossing or repair.
- Pavement repairs. Square-cut patches for failures and potholes that hold their edge.
- Demolition perimeters. Cuts that isolate the section coming out and protect the concrete that stays.
Suburb by suburb
How is the work different from Bondi to Maroubra?
Same gear, different buildings. What each suburb tends to throw at the cut:
Bondi
Bondi is walk-up blocks, semis and a renovation on every second street. Most of what we cut here is solid double brick or a 1960s suspended slab, in a building where someone else lives above the ceiling you are coring through.
Bondi Junction
Bondi Junction is the commercial end of the Eastern Suburbs — towers, retail and high-rise residential stacked around the interchange. That means booked lift times, loading dock windows and a tenant below who is still trading while you cut.
Randwick
Randwick runs from Federation houses and semis through to the hospital and university precinct, so the work swings between a rewire in a 1910 brick home and a services penetration in a medical fitout — often in the same week.
Coogee
Coogee is older brick blocks and beachside semis, most of them a few streets back from salt air that has been working on the reinforcement for fifty years. Renovation work here is constant and the buildings are rarely square.
Maroubra
Maroubra has the bigger blocks of the Eastern Suburbs — 1960s and 70s brick homes with real driveways and room out the back. A lot of the work here is granny flats, garage conversions and driveways that have to be opened up to get services through.
Paddington
Paddington is terraces, and terraces are the fussiest work there is. Party walls, heritage controls, no off-street parking and a neighbour who shares the brickwork you are cutting into. It can all be done — it just has to be done properly.
Double Bay
Double Bay work tends to be high-end and tight: basement garages cut into a slope, lift pits going into existing slabs, pools, and renovations where the finish matters as much as the cut. Clean edges and a clean site are not optional here.
Surry Hills
Surry Hills is half terraces, half old warehouse floors full of cafes, studios and offices. A lot of our work here is fitout cutting done around a business that opens in the morning, plus the usual terrace renovation work behind it.
Getting to you
How do you handle parking and access?
Parking is the real constraint out here, not the cutting. Narrow streets, resident-only zones and time-limited bays mean the gear has to come off the ute and onto the job quickly. We plan the load-in before we arrive, and where a building has booked lift or loading times we work to them rather than turning up and hoping.
Eastern Suburbs we cover
- Bondi
- Bondi Junction
- Bondi Beach
- Tamarama
- Bronte
- Clovelly
- Coogee
- Randwick
- Maroubra
- Kensington
- Kingsford
- Waverley
- Paddington
- Woollahra
- Double Bay
- Rose Bay
- Vaucluse
- Dover Heights
- Bellevue Hill
- Surry Hills
- Darlinghurst
- Mascot
Questions
Eastern Suburbs questions
Do you charge extra to come to the Eastern Suburbs?
No. It is where we are based and where most of our work is, so there is no travel loading on an Eastern Suburbs job.
Can you work in a strata block?
Yes, and a lot of our work is exactly that. Send through the building rules and the booked work hours and we will fit them. We are insured and SWMS go to the building manager on request.
The street has no parking. Is that a problem?
Not usually. Tell us the address when you book and we will sort the load-in — most of these jobs we are carrying gear in anyway.
Can you chase a wall in an occupied unit?
Yes. On-tool vacuum extraction keeps the dust in the machine, we sheet up before we start, and we clean as we go.
How deep can you go in double brick?
Deep enough for standard conduit and no deeper. There is a limit past which cutting weakens a masonry wall, particularly on long horizontal runs, and we will not go past it.
Can you core without flooding the flat below?
Yes. Wet coring uses a small amount of water vacuumed straight back up and the rig is ring-sealed to the slab. Where water is a problem we core dry with extraction.
What is the biggest hole you can core?
Up to 600mm. Past that it usually becomes a saw cut instead, and we will tell you which is cheaper for what you need.
Do I need a council permit?
If the cut is in the road or the footpath, usually yes, and it is normally the head contractor or owner who applies. Tell us what has been approved and we will work to it.
How deep can you cut?
Deep enough for a trench in a single pass. Give us the depth you need when you call and we will confirm what it takes.
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Every service, in the Eastern Suburbs
Cutting to do in the Eastern Suburbs?
Quickest way to a price is a phone call. We answer on site.
0405 632 534