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We repair sheds, renovate laundries and bathrooms and paint farmhouses on Balliang’s farms, between the Brisbane Ranges and the Werribee Plains. The locality is split between two councils, and each has its own rules for sheds.
Balliang is farmland, with about 225 properties and a hall, a fire station and a church on Bacchus Marsh–Balliang Road.
We have done 7 building and repair jobs in Balliang: re-cladding shed walls, repairing a shed after a tree came down on it, a laundry renovation, a bathroom renovation, painting through a farmhouse, and general repairs. Out here one visit often covers several jobs, so we plan the list together.
About 55% of Balliang is in Moorabool Shire and 45% in Greater Geelong. In both, the Farming Zone lets you extend a house by up to 200 square metres or build an outbuilding of up to 250 square metres without a planning permit, if it meets the setbacks. On the Moorabool side, a design overlay also means a building needs a permit unless all its walls and roof are clad in non-reflective materials, so bare zincalume would need a permit.
Parts of both sides are under overlays protecting the Werribee Plains grasslands, where an outbuilding needs a permit and extensions over 50 square metres do too. The whole locality is bushfire prone, so new habitable work is built to a bushfire attack level, and a few properties near the Brisbane Ranges are under the Bushfire Management Overlay as well.
Running a farm business or looking after a community building around Balliang? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
Ordered by the work we have done in Balliang, then what farm homes and sheds need.
Laundries, bathrooms and shed conversions.
Painting and general repairs around the farmhouse.
Cladding on the weather side of older homesteads.
Verandahs that shade the house, built to the bushfire level.
Doors and windows that have moved with the house.
House-yard fences near the homestead.
Driveway and yard gates that hang straight.
Shed, laundry, paint or all three. Tell us the road so we know which shire you are in.
Moorabool or Geelong, cladding finish, the grasslands overlay and the bushfire level all get checked.
Free and itemised, so the kilometres are on the page, not a surprise.
We line up several jobs per trip to Balliang where we can.
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.
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.
Balliang sits on the former Staughton Vale Estate, named after the pastoralist Simon Staughton, who took up runs in the district in 1842. The estate was cut into 50 farm allotments in 1908, and a school followed in 1910, a church in 1912 and a public hall in 1918. The timber hall was replaced in 1957.
The 2021 census counted 254 residents, nearly all in separate houses on farms, many of them over 40 hectares. Farm buildings, two councils’ rules and bushfire country are why the work here is planned before it is built.
Lara • Lovely Banks • Bannockburn • Geelong
Balliang borders Balliang East, Little River, Beremboke, Staughton Vale, Anakie, Rowsley, Glenmore, Mount Wallace, Parwan and Quandong.
Give us the list for the farmhouse and the sheds, and we will come back with what each shire allows and a free estimate.