Aged care and retirement village refurbishment
Laidre refurbishes aged care homes and retirement villages across Sydney and NSW while residents stay at home. We turn over independent living units (ILUs) and villas, redo rooms and bathrooms in residential aged care facilities (RACFs), refurbish community centres and take on capital works like re-roofs. Recent work for Aveo, Uniting, Whiddon and RFBI runs from Mosman to Narrabri and Coffs Harbour.
Photo: Aveo
It's someone's home before it's a job site
When we refurbish a retirement village or an aged care home, people are living a few metres from the work. They hear the drill. They walk past the hoarding to get the mail. None of them chose to have builders around.
So we keep the work inside the room or unit we're in. We talk to the village manager before the trades arrive, so residents know what's happening and when. We keep paths clear for walking frames and wheelchairs, clean up every day, and keep residents out of our photos unless they've said yes.
There's a second reason. An empty unit is a home nobody can move into. For the operator that's lost income, and for the next resident it's a wait. Getting units back into use on time helps both.
Photo: Aveo
ILU, RACF, community centre and capital works refurbishments
ILU and villa refurbishments
Full refurbishments of independent living units (ILUs) and villas between residents: demolition, waterproofing, tiling, new kitchen joinery, flooring and finishes, then a completion checklist so the operator knows exactly what's been done. We're refurbishing units for RFBI across NSW, in Goulburn, Berry, Basin View and Coffs Harbour.
RACF rooms and bathrooms
Room by room in a working residential aged care facility (RACF). New flooring, skirting and paint in resident rooms. Bathrooms with new vinyl, a vanity with the power point built in, and sensor lighting. We do one or two rooms at a time and hand each one back before starting the next, like the bathroom program at RFBI Hawkins and the flooring program at Whiddon's Robert Young home in Narrabri.
Photo: Aveo
Community centres and shared spaces
The community centre is where a village eats together, holds its activities and sees visiting family. We've worked on community centres at Aveo Manors of Mosman, Aveo Bayview Gardens, Aveo Fernbank and Uniting Mayflower in Westmead, and we're on site now upgrading the dining room at Aveo Lindfield Gardens and the shared spaces at Aveo Minkara. We sweat the details older residents notice, like the hearing loop and the accessible path from the carpark at Bayview.
Capital works and re-roofs
The bigger jobs an operator plans a year or two ahead: re-roofs, building upgrades, paths, fences and access. At Uniting Mayflower in Westmead we re-roofed buildings and upgraded villa fences and paths, all with residents at home.
Spaces we work in
Independent living units and villas
ILUs refurbished between residents, from demolition to finishes.
RACF resident rooms
New flooring, skirting and paint, one or two rooms at a time.
RACF bathrooms
New vinyl, vanities and sensor lighting, handed back quickly.
Community centres
Cafés, lounges, dining rooms, libraries and halls, where residents get together and families visit.
Corridors, lobbies and shared spaces
Paint, flooring, acoustic panels and lighting, done floor by floor around residents.
Roofs and capital works
Re-roofs, paths, fences and access upgrades across a village.
How we work around residents
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Before we start
We walk the site with the village or facility manager and agree work hours, quiet times, access routes and where materials go.
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Staging the program
We stage it by room, wing, floor, building, common area or unit release, whichever suits how the home runs day to day.
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Notice for residents
Residents get the dates for noisy work in advance, through the village team.
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Fire safety
Isolations are booked with the facility for each work day and closed out at the end of every day.
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Contained work
Dust screens and floor protection at the room or unit entry. Work stays inside the space we're in.
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Weekly reports
Photos and progress every week to the operator's property team.
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Handover
A completion checklist for every room or unit, then a defects walk with the client.
From our current jobs: at Whiddon in Narrabri the flooring installer booked fire isolations with the Village Managers for every flooring day. At Aveo Minkara there's no noisy work before 10am and none on weekends. Every RFBI unit is handed over with a completion checklist.
Projects
Jobs like this
Whiddon, Robert Young home, Narrabri
Whiddon
52 Gibbons Street, Narrabri NSWAged care & retirement living
RFBI Hawkins
RFBI (Royal Freemasons' Benevolent Institution)
RFBI Hawkins Masonic Village, NSWAged care & retirement living
RFBI, five retirement living units
RFBI (Royal Freemasons' Benevolent Institution), Retirement Living
Goulburn, Berry, Basin View & Coffs Harbour, NSWAged care & retirement living
Community centres and capital works
Photo: Aveo
Aveo Manors of Mosman
Community centre refurbishment: café, lounge, library, function room, salon and billiards room.
Uniting Mayflower, Westmead
Community hall refurbishment, a re-roof, and new villa fences and paths.
Aveo Bayview Gardens
Community centre refurbishment with outdoor dining, a hearing loop and a new external lift.
Aveo Fernbank
Community centre upgrade.
Aveo Lindfield Gardens
Dining room and patio upgrade, under way in 2026.
Aveo Minkara
Lobby, corridor, shared space and library refurbishment, under way in 2026.
Recent aged care and retirement living work
Uniting Mayflower, Westmead
Uniting Mayflower, Westmead
Photo: Aveo
Aveo Manors of Mosman
Photo: Aveo
Aveo Manors of Mosman
Photo: Aveo
Aveo Manors of Mosman
Questions operators ask us
Can residents stay in the village while you work?
Yes. Almost all our aged care and retirement living work happens with residents at home. We plan hours, access and noise around them, keep the work inside the room or unit we're in, and clean up every day.
Do you work in aged care outside Sydney?
Yes, across NSW. Recent jobs include Narrabri, Goulburn, Berry, Basin View, Coffs Harbour and Bayview as well as Sydney.
Can you run a rolling program across a home or a portfolio?
Yes. At RFBI Hawkins we refurbish resident bathrooms two at a time and hand each pair back before the next starts, with 14 handed back by mid-October 2026. For RFBI Retirement Living we refurbished five units across four towns on one program.
How do you handle fire safety in an occupied home?
Fire isolations are booked with the facility for each work day and closed out at the end of every day. At Whiddon's Robert Young home in Narrabri, the flooring installer booked isolations with the Village Managers for each flooring day.
How will we know what's happening on site?
Your contact gets a weekly report with photos. At handover there's a completion checklist for every room or unit, then a defects walk with you.
How quickly can a vacant unit be turned around?
It depends on the scope. We'll give you a program with our quote and work to the turnaround you need.
Are you ISO certified?
Yes. ISO 9001, ISO 14001 and ISO 45001, through Citation Certification.
Can you help when residents are moving in or out?
Yes. Timing in retirement living and aged care often needs to line up with occupancy changes, so we coordinate works around unit availability, handover needs and agreed completion dates.
Can you help us prioritise work across several units or areas at once?
Yes. When several rooms, units or common areas all need work, we'll help you put them in a sensible order based on urgency, access, budget and how the site runs.
Can you pick up a refurbishment from an existing scope or brief?
Yes. We're happy to work from your scope, brief or specification, and we'll flag anything that needs sorting before work starts.
Do you do capital works, like re-roofs?
Yes. Alongside unit and room refurbishments we take on capital works across a village, like the re-roof and the villa fences and paths at Uniting Mayflower in Westmead. We plan them the same way, around residents.
Insights
Guides
Community centre refurbishments in retirement villages
How we refurbish community centres in retirement villages and aged care sites with residents at home, from Manors of Mosman to Bayview Gardens.
Staging aged care refurbishments
How to stage an aged care or retirement village refurbishment around residents and staff: room by room, unit by unit, with real examples.
Planning unit turnovers or a refurbishment program
Send us the scope, even a rough one. Dylan, Matt or Neil will walk the site with your team and give you a program that works around your residents.
Get Site Notes, a short monthly email from Matt on what we're seeing on site.