The houses around Tauranga
Along the harbour side, in Otumoetai, Matua and Bellevue, it’s mostly family homes built between the 1960s and the 1980s: brick and tile with timber joinery, weatherboard bungalows, and the occasional 1990s plaster house on the water’s edge. The brick ones tend to need their fascia, soffits, window frames and doors redone every decade or so, and the interiors from that era carry textured ceilings and dark trim that a repaint transforms. Out through Bethlehem, Pyes Pa and Tauriko the houses are newer, plaster and sheet cladding on bigger sections, so there’s more exterior work that way.




