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Renovation System

The system built for the chaos, not just the checklist.

Renovating is nothing like building new — stop using a guide that treats it that way. The Renovation System gives you the budget tracking, builder communication, and decision structure to manage a renovation of a home you're living in, from first plan to final warranty.

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$99 one-off. No subscription.
Why renovating is harder to manage than it looks

Most renovation budget blowouts aren't bad luck.

They're costs nobody had a system to see coming, and decisions nobody had a framework to make. That's what this system exists to fix.

"What's actually behind that wall?"

You won't know what's hidden in the existing structure until demolition starts. A renovation budget that doesn't plan for that isn't a real budget — it's a guess.

"How do we stop this scope creeping?"

The moment something unexpected turns up, small decisions start multiplying. Without a place to log and cost each one, scope creep is how a renovation budget blowout happens.

"Can our household actually live through this?"

Living through a renovation with trades moving through an occupied home is a different job to watching one happen on an empty block — and it needs its own plan.

What's inside

12 sections. 62 templates. 75 pages.

Everything from your first budget to your last warranty claim, built specifically around renovating a home you live in.

1

Your Command Centre

4 templates

2

Project Management Systems

4 templates

3

Builder Communication System

7 templates

4

AI Prompt Library

6 templates — structured prompts to get better answers from AI tools like ChatGPT, not a live AI product built into the system.

5

Financial Management System

9 templates

6

Renovation Planning

5 templates

7

Builder Selection

5 templates

8

Design & Selections

6 templates

9

Managing Construction

5 templates

10

Living Through The Renovation

3 templates

11

Completion

6 templates

12

Progress Tracker

2 templates

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How it compares

Pay once. Not every year you're not even renovating.

A subscription renovation platform assumes you'll be renovating forever. You won't.

A subscription renovation platform

e.g. a "Renovation Roadmap"-style membership

$299 /year
  • Recurring charge whether or not you're actively renovating that month
  • General renovation content, not built around living through works in an occupied home
  • No dedicated system for what's behind the wall until demolition, or the scope creep that follows
  • You keep paying after the renovation is finished, or you cancel and lose access

Build Companion Renovation System

$99 one-off
  • Pay once, keep it for the life of your project and beyond
  • Built specifically around renovating a home you live in — not a relabelled new-build guide
  • A Financial Management System designed to catch the costs a builder's quote never mentions
  • A dedicated section for living through construction, not just planning it
Who this is for

Built for people renovating a home they live in — not managing a career of them.

This is built for you if

  • You're renovating or extending a home you live in now, or will while works are underway
  • Your project budget is roughly $150,000–$350,000 or more
  • You're engaging a licensed builder to run the job, and want to manage your side of the table properly
  • You want a system tracking budget, decisions, and builder communication instead of a notes app and a group chat

This probably isn't for you if

  • You're an owner-builder managing trades directly as your profession
  • You're a tradesperson running the job yourself
  • You're doing a single small DIY job with no builder involved
Inside the system

A worksheet built for renovation decisions, not generic ones.

Every worksheet in the Renovation System is built around what actually comes up mid-renovation — hidden structural issues, variation costs, and the trade-offs that show up once a wall comes down. It's a working system you update weekly, not a document you read once and shelve.

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Build Companion Renovation System worksheet page
Pricing

One price. One project. Yours to keep.

Renovation System
$99 one-off

12 sections, 62 templates, 75 pages — including the full Financial Management System.

  • Instant access after purchase
  • Fillable, print-ready — type on-screen or write by hand
  • No subscription, no account required
Get the Renovation System — $99
Frequently asked

Renovation System — questions homeowners ask.

Will this work if I'm only doing a partial renovation, like a kitchen or bathroom?+
Yes. The system scales down as easily as it scales up — use the sections that apply to your project and skip the rest. A single-room renovation still needs a budget, a builder communication record, and a plan for living around the works; those are exactly the sections most homeowners lean on.
We're already mid-renovation — is it too late to start using this?+
No. Most homeowners get the most value from the Financial Management System and Builder Communication System, both of which work from wherever your project is right now. You'll get less benefit from the early planning sections, but the registers and trackers are useful at any stage through to handover.
Is this a renovation contract checklist, or does it tell me what my contract needs to say?+
It's a checklist of what to review and ask about before you sign — not legal advice, and not a substitute for having a solicitor or conveyancer check the contract itself. It's built to help you know what to look for and what to raise with your builder.
Do I still need this if I'm managing trades myself without a head contractor?+
The Renovation System is built for homeowners engaging a licensed builder to run the job — it's not designed as an owner-builder trade-management tool. If you're coordinating separate trades directly yourself, some sections (particularly Builder Communication) won't map cleanly onto your project.
Is this actually a PDF?+
It's delivered as a print-ready and genuinely fillable digital document — you can type directly into every field on-screen, or print and write by hand. What matters isn't the file format, it's the system inside it: dashboards, registers, and trackers built to be used every week of your project, not read once.

Know what's behind the wall before you find out the hard way.

The Renovation System. $99 one-off. Instant access.

Get the Renovation System — $99