Where we work
Home accessibility modifications in Booragoon
Booragoon is a quiet residential suburb centred on the Garden City shopping precinct, with housing stock that is predominantly mid-century brick - single-storey homes built from the late 1950s through to the 1970s on flat or gently undulating blocks. The terrain works in your favour for accessibility: most properties have a level or near-level approach to the front door, which keeps external modifications straightforward.
Inside is the familiar story of that era. Bathrooms are small, showers are almost universally set into a tiled recess with a 100-150 mm hob, door widths are often below the 820 mm that makes wheelchair access comfortable, and internal toilets in the smaller homes share a tight combined wet area with the bathroom. These are solvable problems, and we solve them regularly in this suburb.
Booragoon is five minutes from our Melville base, which means we can fit a visit here without the scheduling lead time needed for suburbs further afield. The $149 home safety audit is a practical starting point for any home in the suburb.
What we find in Booragoon homes
Every suburb has its own housing character and its own access challenges. Here is what we most often see when we visit homes in Booragoon.
Flat sites across most of Booragoon make external threshold ramps, path levelling, and garage-to-door transitions uncomplicated - no rock cutting and straightforward footing depths.
The typical Booragoon bathroom from the 1960s and 1970s has a combined bath-and-shower recess with a raised hob. We remove the hob, grade the floor, and waterproof the new level surface regularly in this suburb.
Internal doorways in mid-century Booragoon homes are often 820 mm or below. Changing the door hardware and reversing the swing is frequently all that is needed before committing to doorway widening, which is a larger job.
Garden City and the surrounding commercial strip has driven steady turnover of properties in Booragoon, with some homes extended or updated in the 1990s. Those extensions sometimes introduce a different internal height and plumbing layout, which we account for when planning a modification.
Long-term residents in Booragoon are a strong part of the suburb's character - many families have been in the same home for thirty or forty years and want to adapt it for the long term rather than sell and move closer to services.
Services available
What we build in Booragoon
All nine of our services are available in this area. Here is what people most often ask us about.
Accessible bathrooms
Full accessible bathroom design and build, in-house, by a team that has done this for over ten years across Perth.
Walk-in showers
A shower you walk straight into - no step to clear, no screen to navigate around, and a floor that drains away from you.
Wet rooms
A wet room waterproofs the entire bathroom floor so there is no shower recess - the whole room is the shower zone.
Accessible kitchens
Kitchen changes that fix the specific thing beating you, from a set of drawers and a lever tap through to a lowered bench with knee clearance.
Ramps & level entry
Rubber, timber, aluminium and concrete ramps built to the right gradient, from a door threshold to a full exterior ramp.
Doorway widening
Wider clear openings for wheelchair and walker access.
Non-slip treatments
Non-slip clear coating for your existing tiles.
Nearby
We also cover suburbs near Booragoon
Our coverage does not stop at suburb boundaries. If you are in one of these suburbs, or anywhere nearby, get in touch.
Start here
$149 home safety audit
We walk through your home, find the trip and fall risks, and give you a written list of what to fix first. We walk through every room, note every hazard, and give you a written list of what to fix first. The $149 is refunded if you proceed with the work.
Or simply ask us for a quote - describe what is getting difficult and we will tell you whether a visit makes sense.
Questions
Questions about work in Booragoon
Our 1960s Booragoon home has a separate toilet with almost no turning room. What can be done?
Reversing the door swing to open outward is usually the first move - it costs little and immediately creates usable space inside. If more room is needed, removing a non-structural partition between the toilet and an adjacent space is often feasible. We confirm what the wall construction allows at the site visit.
Is the $149 home safety audit worth doing if we only have one or two concerns?
Yes, and often more so. People frequently call us about one thing - a slippery shower, a high step - and the audit finds two or three other hazards in the same visit that they had stopped noticing. Written notes and a prioritised recommendation are included in the fee, which is refunded if you proceed.
How long does a shower hob removal typically take in a Booragoon brick home?
Most hob removals and floor conversions in mid-century brick homes take two to three days on site: one day to break out the hob and existing membrane, one day for substrate work and waterproofing, and one day to tile and fit the drain. A full bathroom reconfiguration takes longer depending on scope.
We are in Booragoon and want to get a quote. Do we need to have a specific project in mind?
Not at all. Asking us for a quote is the right first step - you describe what is getting difficult and we ask the questions that help us understand the home. If a site visit makes sense, the $149 safety audit gives you a full written picture before any commitment.
Next step
Ready to talk about your Booragoon home?
Ask us for a quote. Tell us what is getting difficult - we will tell you what we would change first and what it costs.
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