FAQ
Nicon Built was founded in Port Melbourne in 1990 and has been building across Melbourne's inner south ever since. Over 30 years of experience, starting on major Melbourne infrastructure projects before growing into one of the inner south's most trusted residential building businesses. Every project is handled by the same team from start to finish.
Yes. Every single one. No site managers, no subcontracted project management, no handoffs to people you haven't been introduced to. The person you speak to when you first call is part of the same team running the job.
Nicon Built holds a VBA builder's licence (Victorian Building Authority) and carries full public liability insurance. We're a member of the Master Builders Association Victoria, the Australian Institute of Building, the Housing Industry Association, and Building Ethics Australia. Independent quality assurance audits are available on applicable projects.
Melbourne's inner south and bayside suburbs, including Port Melbourne, Albert Park, Middle Park, South Melbourne, Elwood, Brighton, Hampton, Sandringham, Armadale, Malvern, South Yarra, Williamstown, Moorabbin, Bentleigh, Caulfield, Elsternwick, Camberwell, Hawthorn, Kew, and surrounding suburbs.
Kitchen and bathroom renovations, carpentry and joinery, painting and plastering, tiling and caulking, plumbing, electrical, and general property maintenance. As a VBA licensed builder, Nicon Built can also take on work requiring a building permit, including structural repairs that a general handyman isn't qualified to do.
No. That's the whole point. You brief us once at the start. We handle the scheduling, sequencing, access, and quality across every trade on the job. No separate calls to individual tradies.
Both. A single bathroom retile or a plaster repair is fine. A full kitchen renovation or home extension is fine too. No minimum job size. Every job is handled to the same standard.
For any renovation involving structural work, plumbing relocation, or electrical changes, yes. Most meaningful kitchen and bathroom renovations in Melbourne's inner south fall into this category. Nicon Built manages the full scope as a licensed builder, so whatever the job involves, it's covered properly.
A planning permit governs land use and visual impact. The local council assesses it and it's required for most extensions and some renovations. A building permit confirms the structural design meets the Building Code of Australia. A building surveyor issues it. Most renovation projects need both.
We tell you straight away. Before anything proceeds. Any change to scope, cost, or timeline is communicated directly. No surprises. That's been the approach since 1990 and it's what you'll find in our reviews.
A heritage overlay is a planning control that local councils apply to properties with historical or architectural significance. It restricts certain changes and requires council approval before work starts. Nicon Built manages heritage overlay compliance on every heritage job, reviewing documentation before quoting, running the permit process, and making sure the work meets the requirements.
Yes. Heritage listing controls how an extension must be designed and built. It doesn't stop you from extending. Most Melbourne inner-south councils allow sympathetic additions provided the new work respects the significance of the original building.
Through a specialist supplier network built over 30 years of heritage work in Melbourne. That means access to lime mortars, period-matched brickwork, original-profile hardwood joinery, and decorative plasterwork materials that match the original construction.
Yes. For clients at the early stages who want the design and build handled together, we can do that. For clients with a completed architect's brief, we work from those plans directly.
A volume builder sells a template. Standard finishes, set inclusions, not much room to move. We build to your specific brief: your architect's plans, your material choices, your site. And Nicon Built runs every build from start to finish.