What this is
Shellharbour Bathroom Renovations is a local referral service for bathroom, ensuite, small bathroom, accessible bathroom, laundry, waterproofing and rental bathroom work across the Shellharbour City Council area.
You tell us about the room. A free on-site measure gets booked. The licensed builder who would do the work provides a written, itemised quote, and the contract — if you go ahead — is between you and them.
We are not a building company. We do not have trades on a payroll and we do not hold a builder's licence. That is worth saying plainly, because the way most lead-generation websites in this trade are written, you would never know.
Who does the work
Renovation work is carried out in partnership with Coastal Renovation Group, a licensed NSW builder. Licence and insurance details are provided on request.
Please check them. The NSW Fair Trading licence register will tell you who holds the licence, what class it is, whether it is current and whether there has been any disciplinary action. Ask for a current certificate of insurance as well.
Plumbing, electrical work, waterproofing and asbestos removal all require their own licences in NSW and are carried out by appropriately licensed trades. A builder's licence is not an asbestos removal licence, and anyone who implies otherwise should not be working on your house.
Why the local focus earns its keep
Shellharbour City contains two quite different renovation problems in one council area, and generic advice gets both of them wrong.
The newer coastal estates — Shell Cove, Flinders, Blackbutt and the streets around the city centre — are full of 2000s and 2010s project homes. The bathrooms are not failing. They were specified to a builder's allowance and have been outgrown: a flexing moulded base, a pivot door eating the floor, a particleboard vanity, one ceiling light and a fan ducted into the roof space. These jobs are about layout and quality.
The older lake-side and inland streets — Oak Flats, Mount Warrigal, Warilla, Barrack Heights and the established parts of Albion Park — carry 1950s to 1970s fibro and brick. Here it is pre-1990 asbestos testing, a mortar bed on a timber floor, galvanised supply pipework narrowed by rust, a separate toilet, a rear add-on laundry and floor framing that an old leaking shower has been working on for years. These jobs are about what is underneath.
And everywhere near the water — Warilla Beach, Barrack Point, Shellharbour Village, the lake entrance — the specification has to account for salt in the air, which attacks plated metalwork and nothing else.
Knowing which of those three conversations you are having, before the measure rather than after the strip-out, is the whole value of being local.
What you will not see on this website
Reviews, ratings or testimonials. The site is new. There are none, and we have not invented any.
Numbers you cannot verify. No count of bathrooms completed, no years in business, no "trusted by" claims.
Licence numbers, ABNs or ACNs printed on the page. Those are provided on request, on the discovery call or whenever you ask. Published registry numbers are how a network of lookalike sites gets joined together with one search, and we would rather hand them to you directly.
The builder's own marketing claims repeated as ours. If we cannot substantiate it, it is not here.
Prices on every page. Guide figures live on one page — what it costs — and nowhere else, because a number without the context around it is misleading.
Phone quotes. A 1960s fibro bathroom in Oak Flats and a 2010s ensuite in Shell Cove are different jobs. Pricing either from a photo would be a guess at your expense.
Promises about approvals. Shellharbour City Council, an accredited certifier or your owners corporation decides those. Nobody here can guarantee one.
How a job actually runs
Measure, written quote, selections locked and materials ordered, then the work in sequence: testing where the house is pre-1990, strip-out, repairs, rough-in, sheet and screed, membrane and cure, tiling, fit-off, handover with the waterproofing documentation.
In NSW the deposit on residential building work cannot exceed 10 per cent, and above the home building compensation threshold that cover must be in place before a deposit is requested. Progress payments should be tied to completed stages.
Stage by stage walks through the whole sequence with realistic durations, and questions answers what comes up most at the measure.
Where we work
Shell Cove, Flinders, Albion Park, Oak Flats, Warilla and Barrack Heights, plus Blackbutt, Shellharbour Village, the city centre, Albion Park Rail, Mount Warrigal, Barrack Point, Dunmore, Croom and Tullimbar.
Call 02 4214 4283 or send the room details through.
Planning pages and guides
Questions people ask before they commit
Are you a building company?
No. This is a referral service. We take the enquiry, arrange the on-site measure and the written quote, and the licensed builder we work in partnership with does the building and holds the contract with you. Plenty of websites in this trade are set up the same way without saying so.
Why only Shellharbour City?
Because local knowledge is the only thing a site like this can genuinely offer. Knowing that a Flinders bathroom is a 2000s adequacy problem and a Warilla bathroom is a pre-1990 construction problem changes the questions asked at the measure, and that changes how close the quote lands to the final bill.
How do I check the builder's licence?
Ask us for the details, then look them up on the NSW Fair Trading public register. It shows the holder, the licence class, whether it is current and whether there has been disciplinary action. It takes about a minute, and you should do it for any builder quoting your house, not just this one.