Lavington's 1960s-80s brick homes are hitting the age where ridge caps, original tile coatings and galvanised gutters all come due together - which makes Lavington restoration country.
As Albury's largest suburb, Lavington is wall-to-wall post-war and 1970s-80s brick veneer homes, most of them wearing their original concrete tile roofs. Those roofs are now 40 to 60 years old: the factory coating is long gone, the ridge-cap bedding has been cooked by four decades of summers, and a lot of Lavington roofs have never had any maintenance beyond an emergency tile swap.
The good news: Lavington is mostly flat, single-storey and easy to access, which keeps quotes at the friendly end of the ranges. The typical Lavington job is a full restoration that resets the roof for another 10-15 years - often alongside replacing the original galvanised gutters that are rusting at the same age.
The signature Lavington job: clean, repairs, re-bedding and pointing, sealer and membrane coats on original concrete tiles. Most homes suit restoration because the tiles themselves are still sound under the grime.
Typical guide$4,500 - $11,000Forty-plus years is well past the life of original cement bedding. Crumbling ridge caps are the first thing a Lavington inspection looks at - and the main source of the suburb's ceiling stains.
GuideQuoted after inspectionOriginal galvanised guttering rusts out on the same schedule as the roof ages. Colorbond replacement at the guide rate, usually bundled with the restoration while access is set up.
Guide rateAround $85 per metreSingle repairs for the leak that shows up every big rain - traced to the ridge, valley or flashing that caused it rather than siliconed over.
Typical guide$200 - $800A typical Lavington single-storey tile roof around 150 m2 estimates at $5,350 - $7,550 for a full restoration in the calculator - and Lavington quotes tend to land near the middle of the range because access is easy and almost everything is single-storey. Original gutters at roughly 40 metres add $2,900 - $4,100 if they are replaced in the same visit.
Set it to your roof - most Lavington homes are single-storey with a standard pitch, so the 150 m2 tile default is a good start.
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Often restorable - concrete tiles from that era are thick and many are still sound if the roof has not been walked on carelessly. The deciding factors are how many tiles are brittle or spalling and whether the battens are holding. A free inspection settles it: if more than roughly a quarter of the tiles are failing, replacement starts to win on maths.
Two to four days of work for a typical single-storey home - clean and repairs first, bedding and pointing next, coating last, weather permitting. You stay in the house throughout.
If they are the original galvanised set, usually yes - they are at end-of-life on the same schedule, and replacing them while the crew is set up for the roof is cheaper than a separate visit later.
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