Demolition Crews Across Every Corner Of Melbourne
Houses, units, pools and strip-outs taken down from the inner north to the Peninsula. We lodge the permits, abolish the services, deal with the asbestos and hand back a level, compacted block.
Services built for Melbourne
House & Unit Demolition
Single and double-storey homes, flats and dual-occupancy blocks taken down to bare, level ground — machines matched to the access you actually have.
Knockdown-Rebuild Site Preparation
Everything that has to happen before your builder can start — abolishment, approvals, clearing and levels — sequenced to their program rather than ours.
Strip-Outs & Partial Demolition
Rear extensions, upper levels, internal walls and full commercial soft strips — the parts you are replacing come out, the parts you are keeping stay protected.
Asbestos Removal & Disposal
Assessment, licensed removal and EPA-compliant disposal — handled inside the demolition program rather than bolted on as a surprise variation.
Pool, Garage & Outbuilding Removal
Concrete and fibreglass pools, garages, carports, sheds and bungalows removed, the void backfilled in layers and compacted — not just filled in and forgotten.
Demolition Permits & Council Approvals
Demolition permit, Section 29A report and consent, overlay checks, asset protection and protection work notices — prepared, lodged and followed up.
From first call to clear block
The machine work is the short part. What decides your timeline is how early the slow things — council consent and service abolishment — get lodged.
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We walk the block
Access measured, overlays checked, suspect materials identified and the likely below-ground work assessed. You get a scope with exclusions written down, not a number over the phone.
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Everything slow goes in first
Section 29A consent and electricity, gas, water and telecom abolishment all lodged in the same week. They run in parallel, and starting them early is what decides your overall timeline.
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Asbestos out under licence
Assessment first, then licensed removal, WorkSafe notification and clearance where the material is friable. Double-wrapped, tracked and disposed at an EPA-authorised facility.
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Down, cleared and handed back
Structure demolished, footings and slab grubbed out, waste sorted for recycling, block levelled and compacted. Completion photos and disposal dockets to you and your builder.
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First Cut Demolition works right across greater Melbourne — the inner north and west, the post-war brick belt through Reservoir and Sunshine, the multi-unit blocks of the south-east, the sloping treed sites out east, and down through Frankston and the Mornington Peninsula. Operating metro-wide means we deal with all thirty-one councils rather than one, and with every electricity distributor from CitiPower to United Energy. That is the part of a demolition owners find genuinely painful: not the machines, but the applications, the overlays, the abolishment queues and the neighbour-facing obligations that sit in front of the machines. We run all of it as one scope so nothing falls between two contractors. On site, the approach is simple enough — the right size machine for the access you actually have, asbestos assessed before anything is booked, waste sorted rather than mixed, and a block handed back level, compacted and photographed. Where we cannot make a date, we say so at quoting stage instead of discovering it in week six.
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All of Melbourne, not one pocket of it
Thirty-one councils, five electricity distributors and a different kind of block in every direction. We work across the lot.
- Melbourne CBD & inner suburbs
- Northern suburbs — Preston, Reservoir, Coburg, Glenroy, Thomastown, Epping
- Inner north — Brunswick, Northcote, Fitzroy, Carlton
- Western suburbs — Footscray, Yarraville, Sunshine, St Albans, Altona
- Wyndham & Melton — Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Point Cook, Tarneit, Caroline Springs
- South-eastern suburbs — Dandenong, Springvale, Clayton, Noble Park, Oakleigh
- Casey & Cardinia — Berwick, Narre Warren, Cranbourne, Pakenham
- Outer east — Ringwood, Croydon, Bayswater, Boronia, Mitcham, Lilydale
- Frankston & the Mornington Peninsula — Seaford, Mount Eliza, Mornington, Rosebud
Questions, answered
What does a demolition quote from you actually include?
Service abolishment applications, the demolition permit and Section 29A consent, asbestos assessment and licensed removal, the demolition itself, below-ground works including slab and footings, sorted disposal, and the block left level and compacted. Anything excluded is written as an exclusion rather than left ambiguous.
How much notice do you need before starting?
Machine time can usually be found within a couple of weeks. The real lead time sits in front of it — council consent and service abolishment commonly run four to eight weeks each, and they run in parallel. Book early and those weeks overlap; book late and they stack.
Who arranges the Section 29A report and consent?
We do. We prepare the application, lodge it with your council, pay the fees, respond to requests for further information and follow it through to a decision. The demolition permit is issued by a registered building surveyor once the consent is in hand.
Can you work on a narrow block, a laneway or a battle-axe?
Yes. Compact tracked machines, hand-stripping the perimeter, trucks staged on the street under permit where needed. Tight inner-Melbourne access is routine work — it changes the method and the hours, and we price it that way rather than discovering it on day one.
What happens if more asbestos turns up mid-job?
Work stops in that area and you are told what has been found and what it costs before anything else proceeds. Hidden material behind linings and under floor coverings does turn up, and the only fair way to handle it is in writing before the extra work starts.
How much of the house gets recycled?
The great majority by weight. Concrete, brick and masonry are crushed for road base and aggregate, steel goes to scrap, and clean timber is separated where it is worth separating. Sorting properly on site is also what keeps the disposal bill — and therefore the quote — sensible.