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We fix doors, sliders and locks, fit out kitchens and laundries, and repair roof frames in Hamlyn Heights’ 1950s and 1960s homes and the townhouses that have gone up beside them. Around Vines Road, council wants more of that infill.
Hamlyn Heights was settled in the 1950s and 1960s, and townhouses have gone up on some of its older blocks.
Doors and locks came up in 7 of our 11 Hamlyn Heights jobs: a door replaced with a solid-core one on ball-bearing hinges, a sticking slider cleaned and lubricated, reed glass fitted to a door, a warped slider jamb packed out, a cavity slider fitted, and a deadlock and lock adjusted for a real estate agency after the house was restumped. We have also repaired a roof frame, laminating new timber both sides of a snapped cross member and a cracked top chord, and fitted a new subfloor access door.
Several of our jobs here have been for builders: installing a kitchen, laundry carpentry with tile underlay and plaster, tiling a bathroom with two niches, fitting a shower screen and a cavity slider, and fitting plaster tear-away trim to kitchen cupboards. For homeowners we have re-tiled above a bath after waterproofing it.
About 806 of 3,704 properties are now under 300 square metres, and council’s Vines Road housing diversity area encourages buildings of up to three storeys. Across about half the suburb’s addresses, a view-sharing overlay needs a permit for a house or extension more than 7.5 metres high, and some streets carry an overland flooding overlay. In 2026 council proposed heritage protection for four Hamlyn Heights places, including Oakfield on Church Street.
Running a shop on Vines Road or looking after a school or community building? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page for Hamlyn Heights.
Ordered by the work we have done in Hamlyn Heights, then what older homes and new townhouses need.
Our most common Hamlyn Heights job. Sliders, locks and doors that catch.
Solid-core doors, glass panels and cavity sliders.
Kitchen, laundry and bathroom carpentry.
Builder support on kitchen, laundry and bathroom jobs.
Plaster, tiling and repairs alongside the carpentry.
For the three in ten homes that are rented.
Roof edges on 1950s and 1960s houses.
A call or a message. A photo of the door, slider or roof space helps.
A catching lock or a sagging truss usually has a cause. We find it first.
Itemised and free, with any permit step for a second storey set out.
The same crew start to finish, and we check it closes right before we go.
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.
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.
Hamlyn Heights was named after Sidney Hamlyn, a local resident, in the 1940s, and was settled through the 1950s and 1960s. The secondary college opened as Bell Park High School in 1961. Glenpanyal on Glengate Street, a two-storey Gothic Revival house from 1860, is heritage-listed.
The 2021 census counted 6,518 residents with a median age of 38, and about one home in six a townhouse or semi. Sixty-year-old houses and the townhouses beside them are why the work here is repair, fit-out and builder support.
North Geelong • Bell Post Hill • Herne Hill • Manifold Heights • Geelong West
Hamlyn Heights borders Fyansford, North Geelong, Bell Post Hill, Herne Hill, Batesford, Manifold Heights, Bell Park and Geelong West.
Owner, landlord or builder, tell us what you need and we will come back with a straight answer and a free estimate.