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Send the town, which side of the river, what the house sits on and what you have noticed inside. A photo of the worst room and, if you can get there, a stump under the floor usually gets you a price range before anyone visits.

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Quickest option, especially if there is a date attached. Say the date on the call, and say whether the house is in New South Wales or Victoria, because that decides who the enquiry goes to.

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Fill this in and someone will come back to you. Photos of the floor, the outside of the house and the subfloor answer most questions before they are asked, and they save a trip across town just to look.

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What helps with a quote

  • The address or town. It sets the state, and the state sets the paperwork. On the Albury side it also sets whether the house is a heritage item or inside one of the 16 heritage conservation areas, which takes the exempt development route off the table. On the Wodonga side the surveyor checks the overlays from it.
  • What the house sits on. Timber stumps, concrete stumps, brick piers or a slab. If you do not know, a photo under the house tells us. A slab home with cracking is an underpinning question rather than a restump.
  • What you have noticed. Which rooms slope, which doors stick, where the cracks are, and whether it changes with the seasons. On border clay a crack that opens in late summer and closes after winter is still a crack worth reporting.
  • Clearance and access. Roughly how high the floor is off the ground, whether there is a side path a barrow or a small machine could use, and whether the street is one a trailer can park in.
  • Photos. The worst room with a level or a marble on the floor, the outside of the house showing the baseboards, and anything under the floor you can reach.
  • Any paperwork. A building or pest inspection report, an old building permit, an engineer's letter, a soil report if the estate came with one.
  • The date. Settlement, a renovation builder's start, or a floor that is getting worse quickly.

Areas covered

Albury, NSW, Lavington, NSW, North Albury, NSW, South Albury, NSW, East Albury, NSW, West Albury, NSW, Thurgoona, NSW, Jindera, NSW, Howlong, NSW, Corowa, NSW, Wodonga, VIC, West Wodonga, VIC, Baranduda, VIC, Killara, VIC, Bandiana, VIC, Huon Creek, VIC, Tallangatta, VIC, Beechworth, VIC, Yackandandah, VIC and Rutherglen, VIC, along with the smaller settlements between them on both sides of the Murray.

If it is urgent

A floor that has dropped suddenly, a stump that has given way under a load, or a house that has moved after a flood is a different kind of job. If anyone is in danger, call 000. If the house is unsafe but nobody is at risk, keep people off the affected floor, tell your insurer, and contact the council for the side of the river the house is on: City of Wodonga at 104 Hovell Street on 02 6022 9300, or Albury City Council. After a flood on the Murray floodplain, in South Albury or on Gateway Island, do not let anyone under the house until it has been looked at.

What this site cannot help with

Nobody here can issue a permit, tell you over the phone what class your soil is, say whether your Albury address is in a heritage conservation area or whether your Wodonga lot is under a flood overlay, or design underpinning. For a Victorian building question, City of Wodonga is on 02 6022 9300 and the building permit itself comes from a registered building surveyor; for a NSW exempt development or heritage question, ask Albury City Council. To check a NSW licence, use the NSW licence verification service; for a Victorian practitioner, search the Building and Plumbing Commission's register.

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Questions

Common questions

How do I get a restumping quote in Albury or Wodonga?

Call or use the form. Give the town, which side of the river, what the house sits on, what you have noticed inside, and send a few photos. A builder licensed or registered for that state comes back with a price range or a time to look, a subfloor inspection follows, and the written quote comes from that.

Is the quote free?

Quotes are normally free. Confirm it when you book, and ask whether the subfloor inspection is charged separately, particularly for a house out at Corowa or Tallangatta where the inspection may be a dedicated trip rather than a stop on the way past.

Do you need to visit before quoting?

A first price range can come from photos and a description. The number that goes on a contract comes from an hour under the house with a probe and a level, because the state of the bearers, and whether the stumps are standing in dry clay or in a puddle, is not visible from anywhere else.

What photos should I send?

The worst room with a level or a marble on the floor, a door that sticks with the gap visible, the outside of the house at baseboard level, and anything you can reach under the floor: a stump, a bearer, the ground. If a vent has been buried by a garden bed or a path, a photo of that helps too.

Can you work to a settlement date?

Tell us the date at the start. On the Wodonga side the building permit and the contract set the pace; on the Albury side the heritage check and the contract do. A subfloor inspection before settlement is often what the buyer or the vendor needs most. A building report that flags the stumps is a starting point, not a quote, so send it with the enquiry.

I have a building report that mentions the stumps. What should I send?

The report itself, or the pages about the subfloor. It says what the inspector saw and where, and it is the starting point for the inspection and the quote. If the report also mentions termites, drainage or cracking in brickwork, those pages matter too, because they change which trade needs to look first.

Do you cover the towns outside Albury and Wodonga?

Yes. Jindera, Howlong and Corowa on the New South Wales side; Tallangatta, Beechworth, Yackandandah and Rutherglen on the Victorian side. The state's rules apply as they do in the two cities. For heritage overlays and flood controls in those towns, ask the local council, because this site has not verified them town by town.

Can you arrange the engineer for underpinning?

Yes. In Victoria the building surveyor asks for a structural engineer's design before permitting underpinning. In NSW, whether a given underpinning job is exempt development is for the engineer and the certifier or council, and the underpinning and piering licence is its own category. That is arranged as part of the job, or you can supply a recent report if you have one.

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