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We fix the doors, paint and finishes, and add the garden structures and built-ins, as Armstrong Creek’s first estates pass their tenth birthday. It is one of the biggest growth areas in Victoria, and much of it is now old enough to need a carpenter.
Almost every home in Armstrong Creek has been built since 2012. That makes the work here about finishing, then maintaining, young houses.
Armstrong Creek was gazetted as a suburb in February 2012 out of farmland. The first estates are now more than a decade old, which is when doors start to bind, decks need their first proper re-coat and the original fences start to lean. Our 12 jobs here have included sliding doors and locks, a messmate desk and floating shelf, garden and landscaping work, and plaster, caulking and stair-rail repairs for a property maintenance client.
Most new lots are compact. On a lot under 300 square metres flagged on title, a house can be built or extended without a planning permit if it meets the Small Lot Housing Code, and every new home has to connect to recycled water or a 2,500 litre tank. At the other end, Harriott’s acreage release has offered lots of 3,349 to 4,401 square metres with set building envelopes, where sheds and big outdoor rooms belong.
The soils across much of Armstrong Creek are mapped as sodic and cracking clays over basalt, and council’s plans for parts of the growth area require dispersive soils to be assessed. That is one reason cornices can crack and doors drop in the first years. At the 2021 census 34% of homes were rented, so we also do repairs between tenants for landlords and property managers.
Running a tenancy in the Town Centre or at The Village Warralily? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page for Armstrong Creek.
Ordered by the work we have done in Armstrong Creek, then what young estate homes need.
Doors and sliders that bind as the house settles.
Painting and plaster alongside the carpentry.
A first deck on a compact backyard.
Shade that suits a small-lot code.
Replacing the first round of estate fences.
Side gates that are used every day.
For the third of homes that are rented.
A call or a message. Tell us the estate and the lot size if you know it.
Small-lot code, estate guidelines or an acreage building envelope. We work out which applies first.
Itemised and free, with what is included and what is not.
The same crew start to finish, and a return visit if anything needs adjusting.
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.
Prompt, great communication and a terrific job. Have used JF Maintenance for lots of work over the years and would recommend.
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.
Armstrong Creek was carved out of farmland that had been part of Connewarre and Mount Duneed, and gazetted in February 2012. Council had adopted the Armstrong Creek Urban Growth Plan in May 2008, and the first stage of the Town Centre opened in July 2020 with a Coles anchor.
The 2021 census counted 11,247 residents with a median age of 30, and the suburb has grown a lot since. New schools and a library and community hub have followed. A suburb of young houses on moving ground is why the work here is finishing new homes and fixing the first ones.
Charlemont • Mount Duneed • Connewarre • Grovedale • Geelong
Armstrong Creek borders Connewarre, Charlemont, Mount Duneed and Moolap.
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with what fits on the lot and a free estimate.