About
A family business, run by the person who answers the phone
Renovate8 began in 2001 as Paul Metlege Constructions. It has had other names, including Kingston Homes, as we experimented with branding and business models — but it has always operated under the same ABN.
Paul Metlege · builder and owner
We are proud that people we built homes for over a decade ago still call on us, and still refer us to their friends.
We stand behind what we build. You are welcome to speak to current clients or, if you prefer, to clients who have been living for some time in houses we built or renovated. Both conversations tell you something — the second one tells you more.
- 01UniversityUNSW, bachelor of civil engineering, majoring in construction management. The son of a builder.
- 02The RTAProject manager on major civil works — road widenings, noise walls, digging culverts.
- 03McDonald’sProject manager building new restaurants and refurbishing existing outlets, to a fixed date every time.
- 04A developerProject manager on a complex of 250 apartments — the reporting discipline that still runs every job here.
- 052001 onwardsHis own business: Paul Metlege Constructions, then Kingston Homes, now Renovate8. Same ABN throughout.
Ask him about a job that went wrong. Every builder has one.
The useful question is not whether something went wrong. It is what the builder did next, and who paid for it.