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We have fitted door hardware for a commercial client in Aireys Inlet, and can repair and add to its timber beach houses and look after holiday and Airbnb homes around their bookings. The character, fencing and bushfire rules here are detailed, so we work them out first.
Aireys Inlet is a coastal village around the Split Point lighthouse, with lightweight timber homes on big, planted blocks.
Our job in Aireys Inlet was door hardware for a commercial client: a new outside handle, the mortice checked and lubricated, a strike shield bolted on and the drop bolt replaced in stainless steel. Coastal salt is hard on hardware, and stainless pays for itself here. We have also done 18 jobs in Anglesea next door.
Aireys Inlet shares one neighbourhood character overlay with Fairhaven and Moggs Creek, and it covers most houses here. In numbers: a 9 metre front setback, 3 metres to the side and rear, a 7.5 metre height, site coverage of 30% (35% if the extra is unroofed deck) and 60% of the block left for planting. Pools and outbuildings need a permit. A separate design overlay needs one for any fence beyond post and wire up to 1.5 metres.
Six in ten Aireys Inlet homes (60%) weren’t lived in full-time at the 2021 census, so many owners are a phone call away rather than on site. We can schedule work between guests and report back with photos. Every address is under a Bushfire Management Overlay schedule; an extension adding no more than half the floor area, or an outbuilding under 100 square metres that goes with the house and isn’t used for accommodation, needs no bushfire permit.
Running a shop, the hotel or the holiday park, or looking after the school or hall? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page for Aireys Inlet.
Ordered by the work we have done in Aireys Inlet, then what timber beach houses need.
Stainless handles, bolts and strike plates for salt air.
Checks and repairs between guests or visits.
New verandahs to the site’s bushfire level.
Unroofed decks, which count for less site coverage.
Boards and joists replaced on tired decks.
Lightweight timber cladding repaired to match.
Post and wire fences that fit the town’s rules.
Owners who live elsewhere can send pictures and the dates the house is free.
Character, design, habitat and bushfire overlays all apply here.
With every permit step written out before you decide.
Booked between guests, with photos sent when it’s done.
Beyond our expectations, and it was great to work with people who could turn our ideas into something better than we imagined. Couldn’t recommend them highly enough.
Michael worked with our budget and we were so impressed by their diligence and workmanship. They did not cut corners but went the extra mile. So impressed we engaged them again at another property.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
Construction of a lighthouse began in 1890 at Eagle’s Nest Point, renamed Split Point in 1913; the lightstation is on the Victorian Heritage Register. The Ash Wednesday fires of 1983 destroyed 219 houses in Aireys Inlet.
The 2021 census counted 979 residents with a median age of 57. Lightweight homes on planted blocks, an older population and owners who live elsewhere are why the work here is planned around the rules and the calendar.
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Aireys Inlet borders Fairhaven, Anglesea, Eastern View, Wensleydale and Moggs Creek.
Send us a few photos and the dates it’s free, and we will come back with what the rules allow and a free estimate.