Heritage · Restoration

Heritage Home Restoration

Project Overview

A 1920s Weatherboard Given Another Century

This 1920s weatherboard in Thirroul had worn its original roof well past retirement — brittle concrete tiles, sagging box gutters and fascia boards soft to the touch. The owners wanted modern weatherproofing without losing the cottage character the street is known for, so we re-roofed in re-profiled Colorbond-look sheets with a traditional corrugated profile, then replaced every metre of fascia and fitted half-round gutters to match the era of the home.

Location: Thirroul, NSW
Scope: Sympathetic re-roof, fascia and gutters
Materials: Re-profiled steel sheets, hardwood fascia, half-round gutters
Duration: Five working days, weatherproof nightly

Aged roof tiles showing decades of wear before restoration

Challenge & Approach

Modern Performance, Period Manners

The challenge was weight and look together: the century-old frame could not carry new concrete tiles, and flat modern profiles would have looked wrong on the street. Our approach was a lightweight corrugated-profile steel re-roof over new battens and breathable sarking, with every flashing folded on site to sit quietly against the original chimneys and gables.

We replaced the fascia in hardwood, hung half-round gutters with correct falls to new downpipes, and finished with a magnetic sweep of the garden beds each evening so the owners — and their neighbours — barely noticed the works.

Outcome