Inground Pools
Full removal or backfill of old concrete and fibreglass inground pools, leaving the yard solid and ready for whatever comes next.
Learn more →Small strip outs are a real job, not a favour
Ring around Mandurah for someone to strip one bathroom and you'll mostly get quoted a minimum call-out that assumes a whole house, or silence. The economics don't work for big crews — so the jobs land with whoever's cheapest that week, and renovations start with a mess. We built small interior strips into the offer deliberately, alongside pool work: one room is a normal booking here.
What that covers:
- Bathrooms — wall and floor tiles off, vanity, bath, shower screen and toilet out, floor coverings up, room left ready for waterproofing
- Kitchens — cabinets, benchtops, splashback and kickboards out after your trades disconnect appliances and cap the water and gas
- Laundries and WCs — often stripped in the same visit as a bathroom for little extra
- The pool-house combo — plenty of Peel renovations pull out a dated ensuite and an unused pool in one campaign; the inground pool page covers the outside half, and quoting both together saves a second mobilisation
We don't remove walls, and we don't do whole-house or commercial strip outs. One or two rooms back to the frame is the lane, and we stay in it.
What's included, what's not, what it depends on
Included:
- All fixture and fit-out removal, floor protection on the path in and out, and dust sealing of the doorway
- Bin, cartage and tip fees — a standard bathroom fills most of a 3 m³ skip once wall tiles come off
- Metals and clean rubble separated for recycling where practical
- Swept, empty room at handover
Not included:
- Plumbing capping and electrical isolation — licensed trades, booked before the strip starts
- Re-sheeting, patching or waterproofing — your builder's trades, on a clean room
What it depends on:
- Tile substrate. Tiles on plasterboard strip fast; tiles on rendered double brick — standard in older Mandurah and Dudley Park homes — mean taking render off too, which is slower, heavier and noisier
- Asbestos era. Pre-1990 homes get the question asked and, where needed, sampled before a price is fixed
- Access. Ground-floor house versus an upstairs canal-home bathroom where every barrow load goes down a staircase
Typical single-room figures sit on the What It Costs page, and every job gets a fixed written price after a walk-through — not an hourly rate that drifts.
Straight answers
- Will you quote just one room? Yes. That's the entire premise of this page.
- Can I keep the vanity or the stone benchtop? If it survives removal, yes — say so up front, because careful removal is slower than demolition and it's priced honestly either way.
- Permit needed? For non-structural fit-out, generally no under the Building Act 2011 (WA) — see Approvals for where the line sits.
We ask the contractors we work with to hold the relevant WorkSafe WA licences and public liability cover — ask to see them. Call (08) 9516 1339, describe the room, and you'll get a straight answer on price and timing.
More services
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Above Ground Pools
Take-down and haul-away of tired above ground pools and their frames, clearing the space back to usable yard.
Learn more →Spas and Plunge Pools
Removal of old spas and small plunge pools that have stopped earning their keep, with the site left tidy and level.
Learn more →Pool Surrounds, Fencing & Paving
Pulling out cracked pool paving, coping and old safety fencing alongside the pool itself, so nothing half-finished gets left behind.
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FAQs
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a permit to strip out a kitchen or bathroom in Mandurah?
Generally no — removing non-structural fit-out such as cabinets, tiles, fixtures and floor coverings doesn't normally trigger a demolition permit under the Building Act 2011 (WA). Touching structure, like removing a wall, is a different category of work and one we'd tell you to take elsewhere. If anything about your job looks like it crosses that line, we'll say so at the walk-through rather than find out mid-job — and the Approvals page covers when permits do apply.
What about asbestos in older Mandurah homes?
It's a live question in anything built before 1990, which covers a lot of Mandurah's housing stock — wet-area wall sheeting and vinyl floor backing are the usual suspects in bathrooms. Suspect material gets sampled before quoting, and any confirmed asbestos is handled by a licensed asbestos removalist as its own stage before the general strip. That's how WA law requires it to run, and no honest quote skips the question.
How long does a bathroom or kitchen strip out take?
A standard bathroom — tiles, vanity, bath, shower screen, toilet, floor coverings — is a one to two day job including waste off site. A kitchen is usually one day once your plumber and electrician have capped and isolated. You cook dinner the night before; the room is an empty shell for your trades the next evening.
Free, no-obligation