NSW Fire and Rescue and RFS were called to the house on the corner of Combermere and Mary Streets at about 1.15pm Saturday.

They found part of the bathroom well alight.

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The owner told The Post she had been turning switches on an old wall heater in the bathroom in an attempt to work it out. Believing that it was turned off, she continued moving items into the house with her father's help.

"Later I felt heat coming from the bathroom wall," she said.

Seeing the bathroom alight, the woman isolated power and left the house immediately with her father, before calling NSW Fire and Rescue. A crew was there within five minutes.

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The bathroom wall was destroyed. The woman said it would need to be replaced but the home was insured.

"We're both safe and that's the main thing," she said.

Goulburn Mulwaree Support and Mulwaree Support RFS brigades also attended.

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