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We repair and build on Connewarre’s acreage blocks and golf-estate homes, between Lake Connewarre and the Barwon Heads Road. A third of the locality is protected wetland, so the work is on the dry ground around it, and we check the flood and wetland rules before anything goes in.
Connewarre is lake, farmland and a scattering of homes, with the Thirteenth Beach golf estate inside its boundary.
We have done 75 jobs in Connewarre, 50 of them in the last three years. Doors came up in 43, painting in 18 and plaster in 11. That is hinges, seals, frames, closers and the patch-and-paint that follows. On a house, the same skills fix doors that bind as the ground moves and walls that crack beside them.
Lake Connewarre’s Ramsar wetland covers about a third of the locality and farmland most of the rest, so homes here sit on acreage. About 38% of the area is under the floodway overlay. Inside it, a deck on stumps or piers with open foundations, an extension up to 20 square metres and open fencing don’t need a flood permit. In the wetland protection overlay, a fence over 1.2 metres needs a planning permit. We build sheds, verandahs, decks and fence runs to fit those lines.
The Thirteenth Beach golf estate sits inside Connewarre, with villa lots of at least 700 square metres, and works for a single house there generally don’t need a zone permit. About one in six Connewarre homes wasn’t lived in full-time at the 2021 census, and we look after holiday and Airbnb homes too. Under much of the locality the soils are mapped as sodic and cracking clays over basalt, which is why footings, stumps and paving need to allow for movement.
Responsible for a utility, club or community building around Connewarre? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
Ordered by the work we have done in Connewarre, then what acreage and lakeside homes need.
Our most common Connewarre job, 43 of 75. Doors, frames, seals and closers.
Painting and plaster repairs alongside the carpentry.
Decks on stumps or piers that suit the floodway rules.
Verandahs and alfresco roofs on acreage homes.
Rural fence runs, kept to the wetland height rules.
Driveway and paddock gates that keep swinging true.
Extensions to holiday and golf-estate homes.
A call or a message, with the address so we can check the overlays.
The floodway, the wetland fence rule and the soil all shape a job out here.
Itemised and free, with what the overlay allows written into it.
The same crew start to finish, and a check after the first wet winter.
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.
The name Connewarre comes from kunuwarra, the Wathawurrung word for the black swan. A school opened north-west of Charlemont in 1858 and was later replaced by a bluestone government school that ran until 1993. The local post office opened in 1860 and closed in 1967.
Today Connewarre is mostly farmland and protected wetland, with the Thirteenth Beach estate and a scatter of acreage homes. The 2021 census counted 953 residents, with an average of 3.5 bedrooms a house. Big blocks, a protected lake and moving ground are why the work here is planned as carefully as it is built.
Barwon Heads • Leopold • Armstrong Creek • Mount Duneed • Torquay
Connewarre borders Leopold, Wallington, Armstrong Creek, Barwon Heads, Mount Duneed, Breamlea, Torquay and Moolap.
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with what the overlays allow and a free estimate.