Bathroom renovations in Newtown.

Period homes, period plumbing.

Newtown’s streets are lined with Edwardian and late-Victorian homes — high ceilings, decorative cornices, and bathrooms that have often been patched rather than properly renovated for decades. Behind the tiles you regularly find original or long-failed waterproofing, lead and galvanised pipework, and timber framing that’s been quietly damp for years. A surface re-tile here just hides the problem; the room needs stripping back and re-membraning to AS 3740.

Heritage-sympathetic design.

A modern bathroom in a period home should feel like it belongs. We work with the proportions of the room — tall skirtings, picture rails, traditional tapware and tile patterns, a freestanding bath where the space allows — so the renovation reads as part of the house rather than bolted into it. Where the home is in a Heritage Overlay we keep external changes within the City of Greater Geelong planning controls.

Failing waterproofing is the headline job.

The single most common Newtown call-out is a leaking, musty bathroom — swelling skirtings in the next room, lifting tiles, a smell that never clears. Coastal humidity off Corio Bay keeps the structure damp and feeds mould. We strip to substrate, check and repair the framing and subfloor, install a compliant AS 3740:2021 membrane, cure and certify it, then re-tile.

Typical jobs we do here.

• Full heritage-sympathetic bathroom renovation in Edwardian/Victorian homes
• Strip-out and AS 3740 re-membrane of failed original wet areas
• Replacement of perished lead/galvanised pipework with the new bathroom
• Subfloor and wall-frame repair where long-term leaks have rotted timber
• Second bathroom or ensuite added within an existing period floor plan