Aristida House
Cattai · pool & pool house
Custom home builder in the Hawkesbury.
Cattai, Pitt Town and the rural-residential blocks along the river. Two of the eight completed homes on this site are here.
The area
Space, and four things that come with it.
Rural-residential land in the Hawkesbury gives you room that no suburban lot can. What it also gives you is a longer list of things that have to be resolved before a house can be drawn, and most of them are easier to resolve early.
- Flood planning
- Parts of the Hawkesbury sit inside the Hawkesbury–Nepean flood planning area. Where they do, a flood planning level can govern floor heights, materials and sometimes where on the block a house is allowed to sit at all.
- Bushfire-prone land
- Common on the bush fringe. A BAL assessment sets a construction level, and that level changes windows, screening, decking and eave detailing.
- No sewer
- Much of this land is unsewered, so an on-site wastewater system is designed and approved with the house. Its location constrains where the house and the pool can go.
- Services
- Power, water and communications may have a long way to travel. On a large block those runs are a real number rather than a detail.
- Ground and levels
- Acreage rarely arrives flat. Terracing, retaining and cut-and-fill get set out before the slab, while there is still machine access to the whole site.
- Driveways
- Long, and used by concrete trucks before they are used by you. Built to survive the build rather than resurfaced after it.
Built here
Completed Hawkesbury homes.
Aristida House sits on 7,290 m² at Cattai with a pool and pool house. Cleary House is a single-storey home on 2,004 m² at Pitt Town, with sandstone terracing and an elevated pool.
Levels
On acreage, the ground is half the build.
Terracing, retaining and the pool shell all want machine access to the back of the block, which exists at the start of a build and not at the end. Sequencing them into the same program as the house is the difference between a garden that was designed and one that was fitted in.
Cleary at Pitt Town is the clearest example on this site: sandstone terracing holding an elevated pool against the fall, set out before the slab went down.
Common questions
About building in the Hawkesbury.
Hawkesbury
My block is in a flood planning area. Can I still build?
Usually, but the flood planning level governs the design rather than the other way around — floor heights, materials below that level, and sometimes the footprint. It is the first thing to establish, because it changes what the house can be.
There is no sewer. What does that mean for the design?
An on-site wastewater system has to be designed and approved along with the house. It needs land, it needs to sit a set distance from boundaries and buildings, and it constrains where the house, the driveway and the pool can go.
Do you build on large acreage blocks?
Yes. Aristida at Cattai is 7,290 m² and Annangrove, over in the Hills, is two hectares. On this kind of block the services, the driveway and the levels are line items rather than details, and they are priced that way.
What we build here
Every service, across the whole area.
New homes, knockdown rebuilds, renovations and additions, and the pools and landscaping that finish them — all on one lump sum contract with one point of contact.
Custom home builds
A house drawn around your block and the way you live, not adapted from a catalogue plan.
View →Knockdown rebuilds
Keep the land, replace the house. Demolition, approvals and the build on one contract.
View →Renovations & additions
Second storeys, ground-floor additions and whole-home reworks, priced before demolition.
View →Pools & landscaping
The outside finished to the same standard as the inside, by the same team.
View →Credentials
Everything here is checkable.
No awards are listed on this site, because there are none to list. What is here instead is the paperwork, and every line of it can be verified without asking us.
- Licence
- NSW Builder Licence 274764C
- Insurance
- Home Building Compensation Fund
- Memberships
- Master Builders Association
Housing Industry Association - Record
- Building since 2011
Checkable on the NSW Fair Trading register in about a minute.
Cover arranged through icare NSW, issued per job before work starts.
Both bodies publish searchable member directories.
More than eighty projects across Sydney. Eight of them are documented here.
Start a conversation
Send an address in the Hawkesbury.
We will tell you honestly what it can carry.
No obligation, no sales appointment, and no number invented before anyone has walked the block.