Reblocking
Reblocking is the Victorian term for restumping: replacing the stumps a house sits on once they rot, sink or crack.
Restumping in Grovedale
Restumping Geelong restumps Grovedale homes from the suburb's first estates of the early 1960s through its 70s and 80s expansion. Timber-floored homes from those early streets are entering stump-failure age now. If your floors slope or bounce, request a quote and we'll inspect the subfloor and price the fix.
Grovedale started life as Germantown, settled by German farming families from 1849 and renamed during the First World War. A few traces of that era survive around the old cemetery, but the suburb you see today was built from the early 1960s, when the first housing estates branched off the Surf Coast Highway, then spread west along Church Street, Pioneer Road and Heyers Road through the 70s, 80s and 90s.
The early-60s streets are the ones due for stump attention. Timber-floored homes there are now 60-plus years old, and the familiar signs are showing: floor slopes, doors out of square, cracked cornices. Request a quote and we'll check what's under your house.
Local knowledge
Restumping older homes in Grovedale
Grovedale's stock shifts with each decade of expansion. The 1960s estates nearest the highway carry weatherboards and early brick veneers, plenty of them with stumped timber floors. Push west into the 70s and 80s streets and slab construction takes over, where floor problems mean underpinning instead. Street by street, the year your house was built largely predicts which fix applies.
The ground is southern Geelong clay, and Grovedale's flat blocks drain slowly in wet winters. Slow-draining clay under a 1960s subfloor is the classic recipe for stump rot on the shaded, damp side of a house. When we restump here we check drainage and subfloor ventilation at the same time, because fixing the stumps without fixing the damp invites a repeat.
What to look for
Common problems we see in Grovedale
- 1960s estate homes with original stumps now past 60 years old
- Damp, shaded subfloor corners rotting stumps early
- Sloping or bouncy floors in the streets nearest the Surf Coast Highway
- Slab-era homes cracking (underpinning work, not stumps)
- Pre-sale building inspections flagging subfloor problems
What we do
Services for Grovedale homes
Underpinning
Underpinning re-supports a house whose concrete slab or strip footings have sunk, usually by extending the footing down to firmer soil or onto screw piles.
House Levelling
House levelling, also called relevelling, brings sloping floors back to level by jacking the house and packing or adjusting the existing stumps.
Restumping Cost Guide
A full restump of an average Geelong home usually costs $4,000 to $20,000.
Get a free restumping quote in Grovedale
Tell us about your place and we will get back to you with an honest assessment and a fixed price.
Grovedale restumping questions
Which parts of Grovedale usually need restumping?
As a rule of thumb, the earlier the street, the more likely the stumps. The 1960s estates off the Surf Coast Highway lead the list. The further west and the newer the home, the more likely you're on a slab, where restumping doesn't apply. We confirm what your house sits on at the inspection.
Do you service the growth areas south of Grovedale?
Yes. Restumping Geelong covers Geelong, the Bellarine Peninsula and the Surf Coast. Most homes in the newer growth areas are slab-built, so calls from there are usually about underpinning or cracking rather than stumps, and we handle those too.