Cover sheet
REV A · ISSUED FOR REVIEW · MELBOURNEWe build what lasts a hundred years.
Extensions, full renovations and new homes for the inner north and east. One builder on every job, a fixed price before we start, and a finish you'd put your name to. We measure twice and we answer the phone.
Scope of works
SIX TRADES UNDER ONE REGISTRATIONEverything below is run by us, registered, and signed off by us. No subbie merry-go-round — one practice carries the whole scope from the first measure to the keys in your hand.
Method of works
HOW A CARVER & HALE JOB RUNSA build is a sequence, not a scramble. Here's the order every job follows — so you always know which stage you're standing in.
We come out and measure the real thing
No quote off a photo. We walk the site, find what's hidden behind the plaster, and take the dimensions ourselves before a single number is written.
A fixed price before we lift a tool
You get one number with the scope spelled out. No "provisional sums" that balloon later — the price is the price, and a real start date comes with it.
One builder, one supervisor, start to finish
The person who measured runs the job. Trades, schedule and council are ours to manage — you have one point of contact the whole way through.
A written update every Friday
What got done, what's next, where the budget sits. Every Friday, no chasing. Every variation priced and signed before it happens — never after.
Keys, certificates, and a clean site
Engineer sign-offs and compliance handed over with the keys. We leave the site cleaner than we found it — a finish you'd put your name to, because we put ours to it.
Programme
INDICATIVE · GROUND-FLOOR EXTENSIONA sample programme for a typical inner-north rear extension. Your build gets its own, drawn to your scope — but this is the shape of it, and the Friday reports track against it.
Solid = primary trade on site · Outline = overlapping follow-on works · Friday reports plot actual against programme.
Detail plates
PHOTOGRAPHIC RECORD · SELECTED WORKS
Build standard
THE CLAUSES WE HOLD OURSELVES TORead this like a contract clause, not a slogan. These are the terms every Carver & Hale job is built to — the same ones we'd hold to building yours.
A high bar on site means nothing if it isn't written down. So it is.
- CL·01A fixed price before we lift a tool.
- CL·02One builder and one supervisor on your job, start to finish.
- CL·03A written update, every Friday — no chasing.
- CL·04Every variation priced and signed before it happens.
- CL·05We hand back a site cleaner than we found it.
Request for quote
REPLY WITHIN TWO BUSINESS DAYSTell us about the build. We'll come out, measure, and come back with a fixed price and a real start date.
Or call the direct line(03) 9000 4120Carver & Hale isn't real. Yours would be.
We drew this whole set in a day to show a Melbourne builder what their own website could look like. The brand, the photography and the numbers are invented. The standard is not — every line on this page is the standard we'd hold to building yours.
You already answer to a high bar on site. Your website should clear it too. Homeowners spending two hundred grand on an extension look you up before they call. If the first thing they find looks cheap, they assume the build will be too. Tell us your trade and we'll show you the real thing, built like couture, with your name on it.