Plastering and Gyprocking in Hurstville

Yes. We work across the Georges River Council area and the surrounding localities, including every suburb listed on this page. There is no travel charge anywhere we work. If your suburb is not shown, contact us and we will confirm coverage.

We work Monday to Saturday, 7am to 5:30pm. A quote can be requested at any time through the form on this page or by sending through your floor plans or a photograph, and we come back to you during working hours.

Straight answer first: we do not have anyone who speaks Mandarin, Cantonese or Nepali, and we would rather tell you that now than have you find out when you ring. Here is how we work around it. Everything is quoted in writing rather than agreed verbally, so there is something to read, keep and check at your own pace. We are happy to work from photographs, which removes most of the explaining. We are happy to deal by email rather than by phone, and to deal with whoever in the household prefers to handle it. And if something in a quote is not clear, ask and we will rewrite it in plainer terms rather than repeating it louder. Nothing gets started on the basis of a conversation somebody was not sure they followed.

It depends on how it got there. Ordinary wear from living in a place is the landlord's, and damage caused by the tenant or their visitors is the tenant's. The grey area is the common one: a door handle through the wall where no doorstop was fitted, or an anchor hole where a television was mounted. We are not the ones who decide it and we would not pretend otherwise. What we can give you is a written description of each item with photographs, which is what an agent, a landlord or a tribunal will actually want to look at.

Two things worth knowing. A fault that makes the premises unsafe sits in the urgent repairs category, and a water damaged or sagging ceiling is squarely that, so it is not a routine maintenance item. But there is no 24 or 48 hour deadline in NSW, whatever you may have been told; the standard is that urgent repairs be done as soon as practicable. Separately, a tenant can only self fund a capped amount of urgent repair before being reimbursed, and a ceiling will cost well beyond it, so this is not something a tenant can reasonably be expected to pay for and claim back.

In a tower, almost certainly not. Cracking in newer high rise is usually slab deflection or a partition built without a deflection head at the structure above, so the building's own movement is being taken through the wall. That is a construction detail rather than a ground problem. It is also worth knowing that NSW statutory warranties run six years from completion for a major defect and two years otherwise, so on a recent building this may be a conversation with the builder rather than a repair you pay for.

Nobody knows without the soil report, and we would rather say that than guess. Hurstville sits in a part of the Sydney Basin where both sandstone and shale occur, and which one is under a particular street changes how much the ground moves. The reactive clay explanation that fits the western suburbs and the stable sandstone explanation that fits the north shore are both unverified here. In a post war house the cause may just as easily be shrinkage in the timber frame, or an addition on its own footings moving independently of the part it was joined to. What settles it is the report for your own block, rather than an explanation borrowed from a suburb on the other side of the city.

Check with Georges River Council, and it is worth doing because this area works differently from most. Around here protection attaches mainly to individually listed buildings scattered across the suburb rather than to whole protected streetscapes, which is the reverse of somewhere like Strathfield or Mosman. So you cannot tell from looking at your street, and your neighbour's answer will not be yours. Internal plastering is often exempt in any case, but we are not the people to tell you that your particular job needs no approval. Council decides.