District Built — Carpentry, Renovations & Additions
District Built 0426 950 236
Licensed builder & carpenter · Sutherland Shire

DistrictBuilt

Renovations, extensions and additions — plus the pergolas and decks — set out, framed and finished by the same hands that quoted it.

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Fully licensed & insured · Cert IV Building & Construction · Carpentry licence · Lic. 397257C

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Pergola lit at night, Cronulla
PergolaCronulla
Deck and batten wall at night
Batten wallCronulla
Wall frames and flat roof standing
Frame upCaringbah
Finished pergola in daylight
DaylightCronulla
Finished kitchen
KitchenCaringbah
Speckled stone benchtop and waterfall return
Stone topsCaringbah
Vanity with matte black basin
VanityCaringbah
Walk-in shower, floor-to-ceiling tile
ShowerCaringbah
Composite deck steps with wrapped treads
Deck stepsCronulla
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The bloke
who'll do
the work

No sales rep, no project manager, no crew you've never met. George quotes the job, sets it out and builds it.

Two minutes with him and the work will tell you more than any amount of writing.

George Hughes · Lic. 397257C
Cronulla · Pergola & deck

The pergola
project

The back yard had two tired timber cabanas sitting beside the pool. They'd done their time — leaking, dated, and taking up the best part of the block for storage nobody used.

They came down. In their place went a single flat-roof pergola, set out and built from scratch: timber frame, lined ceiling, WoodEvo Castellation cladding on the wall and a composite deck running right to the pool edge.

The brief was an outdoor room that gets used in winter as well as January — so it's roofed properly rather than left open, ceiling lined and painted, and wired for the fans and lighting from the start.

Demolition → handoverTimber frame Flat roofCastellation claddingComposite deck
The finished Cronulla pergola at night — battened wall, ceiling fans and copper uplights
01

Strip out

Both cabanas demolished, slab cleared and the site set out fresh off the pool edge.

02

Frame

Posts, bearers and beams stood, rafters run, and the whole frame squared before anything went on it.

03

Roof on

Flat roof framed, sheeted and sealed, with the fascia wrapped so the edge stays clean.

04

Line & clad

Ceiling lined and painted, then the vertical batten wall — the detail the whole space is built around.

05

Deck

Composite boards laid to the pool edge, concealed fixings, no cut edges showing anywhere.

06

Fit-off

Two ceiling fans, downlights through the ceiling, copper uplights washing the battens, lights set into the deck.

The finished pergola lit at night
Castellation cladding · copper · composite deck
The finished pergola in daylight from the yard
Composite deck · lined ceiling
Copper wall light mounted on the vertical batten wall
Copper
Weatherproof power point set into the batten wall
Castellation cladding
Ceiling fan and lined ceiling at night
Lined ceiling
Flat roof, sheeted
Cronulla · Before / after

Same yard.
Different
building.

Drag the slider — the two old cabanas on the left, the finished pergola standing in their place on the right. Same yard, same turf, same trees behind it.

After — the finished pergola Before — the original cabanas BeforeAfter
The build

How the pergola went up

The Cronulla job in the order it actually happened. Scroll and it draws itself.

Set out Posts Bearers Deck Beams Rafters Roof & battens
Caringbah

Two rooms,
stripped and
rebuilt

Handleless cabinetry, speckled stone tops with a waterfall return, mirrored splashback and new flooring right through.

The bathroom in floor-to-ceiling tile — matte black tapware, heated towel rails and a walk-in shower behind fluted glass.

KitchenBathroomFull strip-outIntegrated joinery
Kitchen island with waterfall return and black tapware
Speckled stone
Speckled stone benchtop and waterfall return
Handleless cabinetry
Matte black tapware
Walk-in shower, floor-to-ceiling tile
Floor-to-ceiling tile · fluted glass
Caringbah · Pool house

Framed up,
sheeted, sealed

A pool house set out and framed from scratch beside the pool, then closed in — every roof sheet and the full run of guttering laid by us.

The fascia is wrapped so the edge stays clean, and the sheets are set out to run true off the framing rather than being fudged at the end.

Timber frameRoof sheetingGuttering

Finishing photos to come.

The Caringbah pool house framed up, wall frames and flat roof standing
Framed up
Timber frame, close up
Roof sheeting and guttering going on at the Caringbah pool house
Sheeted and guttered
Services

What we take on

Building

Structural work and second storeys — set out, framed and closed in. Licensed builder, fully insured.

Renovations

Kitchens, bathrooms and whole-house refits, managed end to end.

Extensions & additions

Extensions, pool houses and outdoor rooms that read like they were always there.

Carpentry

Pergolas, decks, cladding, battens, stairs and built-in joinery.

Fit-outs

Commercial and office fit-outs, worked around your trading hours.

Process

How it runs

First contact

Email or a phone call to talk the project through and work out what you're after.

Site inspection

A visit to the site to gather every detail needed, so nothing is guessed at.

Fully worded quote

Written out in full off the site visit — inclusions spelled out, no surprises.

Build & handover

Set out to finish, same crew, kept clean. Final walk-through and the site left the way we found it.

Contact

Got a job
in mind?

Send through what you're planning and George will get back to you. Photos of the space help.

Phone0426 950 236 EmailGeorge@districtbuilt.com.au Instagram@district.built
Service areaSutherland Shire
Licence no.397257C
QualificationsCert IV Building & Carpentry
InsuranceFully insured