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We finish off new estate homes, rebuild the decks and fences on the ones that went in a decade ago, and keep the older farmhouses and sheds on the acreage blocks standing. Bannockburn has all three within a few kilometres of each other, and each one needs something different from its carpenter.
Three kinds of work come out of this town, and they come from what is actually being built here.
Somerset Estate is up to its final release, Stage 23, and there is another estate in planning off the Midland Highway. New estate homes hand over with very little outside — no fencing between lots, no deck, no shade over a west-facing slab. We build the fences, decks, pergolas and alfresco areas that turn a handover into a house people actually use. And where an estate has already sold out, like Bannockburn Acres, the handover decks are now old enough for their first rebuild.
New framing and a new slab keep settling for a few summers after handover. Doors start to drop and stick, gaps open at the architraves and cornices, and decks pull away from the wall of the house. None of it means the house is faulty, and all of it is cheaper to deal with early than to leave. It is why door and window repair is one of the most common jobs Bannockburn calls us for. If the house is still under builder’s warranty and it is a genuine defect, we will tell you to ring the builder first.
Out at Knights Park Crescent the blocks run 4,000 to 6,300 square metres. That is sheds and machinery storage, fence runs measured in hundreds of metres and gates wide enough for a tractor that still swing true in five years. Wind is the thing people underestimate out this way, so we over-engineer the footings and bracing nobody sees. The older farmhouses and outbuildings were never built all at once, so working out what is original before we quote is most of the job.
Managing a commercial property in Bannockburn? The retail, tenancy and make-good side of our work is on the commercial carpentry page for Bannockburn.
Ordered by the work we have genuinely done in this postcode, not by a standard list.
Our most common job here. One team, several trades, one point of contact.
New work and repairs, from estate homes to century-old farm buildings.
Doors that stick and drop as new-estate slabs settle.
New alfresco builds, and first rebuilds on the older estates.
Shade over west-facing slabs, braced for the wind out here.
Extensions and reworks, mostly on the older homes near the original township.
The ongoing list, on new and old houses alike.
Retail and light commercial premises.
A call or a message. No obligation, and no sales visit dressed up as a quote.
On an acreage block we will want to see access and where the truck can get to before we price anything.
Itemised, in writing, with what is included and what is not. Free.
The same crew from start to finish, and we come back to check the work has held.
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.
The township started in the early 1850s as Leigh Road, a coaching stop on the run to the Ballarat goldfields. It sits about 23 km south-west of Geelong in the Golden Plains Shire, and the country around it has been farmed as long as the town has existed — Bannockburn Vineyards has been going since 1974.
What has changed is the pace. The 2021 census counted 6,470 people and the estates have kept releasing since, which leaves two housing stories side by side: township and farm buildings repaired and added to for well over a century, and estate homes finished last month. That is exactly why the work here splits the way it does.
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We also work through Teesdale, Lethbridge, Gheringhap and Sutherlands Creek, which all border Bannockburn.
Tell us what you are dealing with and we will give you a straight answer and a free estimate.