Beecroft · Hornsby Shire
Bathroom renovations in Beecroft.
81% of Beecroft is freestanding houses, and 57% of homes have four bedrooms or more — often with only one or two bathrooms serving them. Adding a bathroom is a different job to replacing one, and we do both.
NSW contractor licence 397801C · Hornsby Shire Council area · About 10 minutes from our Hornsby showroom
Beecroft by the numbers
3,349
occupied private dwellings in Beecroft
81.4%
separate houses
13.0%
flats or apartments — 437 dwellings
57.4%
of homes have four or more bedrooms
Adding a bathroom
Putting a bathroom where there wasn't one.
Beecroft has a lot of large older houses that were built with a single bathroom. Adding a second one, or an ensuite, is the enquiry we get most often here — and it is a genuinely different job to replacing an existing room.
Find the drainage first
A new bathroom needs a waste connection with the right fall. Where the existing sewer line runs decides where the room can go — before any floor plan is drawn.
Under the stairs, off a bedroom, out the back
The three places a second bathroom usually fits. Each has a different cost, and it is rarely the one people expect.
Ventilation is not optional
A new wet area needs mechanical extraction ducted to outside air. In an internal room that routing gets designed in, not improvised.
Structure and floor build-up
Adding a wet area over a timber floor means checking the joists and getting the fall without a step at the doorway.
Houses — 81.4% of Beecroft
Working in a conservation area.
Parts of Beecroft sit within a heritage conservation area under the Hornsby Local Environmental Plan, and a number of individual properties are listed items. That very rarely stops a bathroom renovation. It does change what we check first.
Check the address, not the street
Heritage status attaches to individual properties and to mapped conservation areas. We confirm yours with Hornsby Shire rather than assume from the neighbours.
Internal work is usually fine
Heritage controls are mostly concerned with what is visible from the street and with significant original fabric. A bathroom rarely troubles either.
New external vents and windows
This is where an added bathroom meets heritage. A new opening or vent on a visible elevation is the part that may need approval.
We flag it before you commit
Anything that may require a development application is identified at quoting stage, not discovered halfway through.
Units — 13.0% of Beecroft
And the units near the station.
437 flats and apartments by the 2021 count, most of them within a short walk of Beecroft station. A smaller share of the suburb than almost anywhere else we work — but the ones that are there get the same standard of work.
Owners corporation, then trades
Written approval of the scope before demolition. We supply the document; you submit it.
Adding is not usually on the table
In a unit the answer is almost always to improve the room you have. New wet areas in strata are a much larger proposition.
Certified membrane, handed over
Waterproofing certification on completion — the document that matters most when someone lives underneath.
Credentials
Licensed for structural work too.
NSW contractor licence
397801C
Renova Holdings Pty Ltd
Builder
99764S
Alireza Kamalzadeh
Contractor
395823C
Arshia Kamalzadeh
HBCF eligibility
To 15 Oct 2028
Approved to $750,000 per dwelling
Dwelling and bedroom figures from the ABS 2021 Census QuickStats for Beecroft (SAL10249). Heritage items and conservation areas are mapped in the Hornsby Local Environmental Plan — confirm your property with Hornsby Shire Council. Verify licences on the NSW Government public register.
Beecroft questions
Adding, replacing and checking.
Can we add a second bathroom to our house?
Usually, and the constraint is drainage rather than space. A new wet area needs a waste connection with adequate fall to the existing sewer line, so where that line runs determines where the room can realistically go. We locate it at the first visit and work outward from there.
Where does a second bathroom usually fit?
Most commonly under a staircase, carved out of an oversized bedroom to make an ensuite, or on the back of the house near the existing laundry. The laundry-adjacent option is normally cheapest because the drainage and water are already there. Which one suits depends on your floor plan and the sewer position.
Does a new bathroom need council approval?
A new bathroom inside the existing building footprint that does not alter structure is often exempt development in NSW. Where it involves structural change, an extension, or a new opening on an external wall, an application may be needed — and in a conservation area that threshold is lower. Beecroft is in the Hornsby Shire Council area and we check before you commit.
Is my Beecroft house heritage-listed?
Some are individually listed and parts of the suburb fall within a heritage conservation area under the Hornsby Local Environmental Plan. It is address-specific rather than street-specific, so we confirm with the council. Internal bathroom work is usually unaffected; new external vents or windows are the part that can require approval.
We're in a unit. Can you still help?
Yes. About 437 Beecroft dwellings are flats or apartments. In strata the work is confined to improving the existing bathroom rather than adding one, and it starts with written owners corporation approval of the scope. We provide the document for that application.
Thinking about a second bathroom?
Send us the address and a floor plan if you have one. We'll tell you where it can go before we talk about what it costs.
