For Serious Custom & Heritage Builds Only
Every other builder in the region works in brick veneer and calls it custom. Pryme Projects works in a category almost nobody else can even attempt, backed by a hand-picked team of precision carpenters and a licensed builder who's across every job personally.
Not A Claim. A Capability.
Anyone can put "custom" on a website. Building in rammed earth, to Passive House standard, and through heritage restoration takes a different level of skill entirely, and a different builder.
Poured and framed construction is the industry default because it's fast and forgiving. Rammed earth is neither. It's compressed in layers, on-site, with almost zero margin for error, and it rewards you with a structure that regulates its own temperature and a finish no other building method can fake. Almost nobody on this coast attempts it structurally. Pryme builds it as standard practice.
Most builders slap "eco-friendly" on a brochure and move on. Passive House is a certified performance standard, and almost none of them will build to it, because it's harder, slower, and doesn't forgive shortcuts. Pryme does. That's the entire difference between a home that's marketed as efficient and one that actually is.
Most heritage work forces a trade-off, keep the character or fix how the place performs, rarely both. Pryme does both on the same project, preserving what makes the building worth keeping while rebuilding it to a standard that performs like new.
What Everyone Else Delivers Instead
No plan. No straight answers. A bill that keeps growing after the ink's dry.
The site goes quiet the moment the deposit clears. Ask for a schedule and you'll hear "it's in hand," month after month. Raise a defect and it's suddenly "UV damage," or "out of warranty," or just ignored.
This isn't bad luck. It's what happens when the buyer becomes the auditor, the project manager, and the only one holding the build together.
Pryme runs one job at a time, on one standard, with one person accountable for both. That's the entire difference.
How Pryme Actually Runs A Job
Not a promise to trust. Proof, shown upfront.
Every project runs under Nic's direct oversight, from first meeting to final handover. No handoff to a stranger with a clipboard once the contract's signed.
You'll see an itemised, written cost breakdown and a draft build schedule specific to your project, before a deposit changes hands. Not a verbal assurance. A document.
If something changes mid-build, and on any custom or heritage job, something eventually does, you'll know in plain language how it's priced and agreed before it happens. No invoices that appear from nowhere.
Not Adjectives. Evidence.
The Work, In Their Own Words.
Every Build Has Its Own Story
Every project gets its own page, the brief, the material, the build itself. Here's a few to start.
Completed just in time for summer, this Tumbi Umbi pool house creates a refined outdoor living space designed for entertaining, relaxation and year-round use.
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A stunning kitchen transformation within a 1950s brick home, reworked into a refined architectural coastal renovation with a lighter, more considered interior.
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A warm, refined bathroom renovation focused on texture, natural light and timeless materials. Designed to feel calm and built to last.
View ProjectThe First Step, Not A Sales Pitch
We take on a limited number of custom and heritage builds a year. This session is how we decide if yours is one of them, before either of us commits to anything.
Most builders quote you a number and let you find out what it actually costs later. You'll see real, itemised costs for your specific block, before you've signed a thing.
Most builders tell you they'll "get back to you on the schedule." You'll walk away with a draft build schedule, in writing, for your project specifically.
Most builders explain variations after the invoice arrives. You'll know exactly how they're priced and agreed, before you need to.
And you'll meet the person actually building your home, not a rep who hands you off the moment you sign.
If we're not the right fit, we'll tell you, and point you somewhere better.
Built On What Actually Worries You
Most guarantees end when the final invoice clears. Ours doesn't.
The real fear on a custom build isn't the build itself. It's what happens after: the call that never gets returned, the defect that gets denied, the builder who's already moved on before you've moved in.
That's the part of a guarantee that actually matters, and it's the part most builders skip.
Every allowance and variation is agreed and documented before it happens, not reconciled after the fact.
And after handover, Nic is still contactable. Not a call centre, not a support ticket that vanishes into a queue, the person who built your home.
Full terms on defects and post-completion support are covered in your contract, set out plainly, not buried in fine print.
Questions Worth Asking Before You Sign With Anyone
No spin. If the honest answer is "it depends," that's what you'll get.
For Everyone Still Deciding
A short, plain-language guide built from the same standard this whole page is held to.
Most builders hope you don't ask the hard questions until it's too late to walk away. This guide makes sure you ask them first.