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We build and repair decks, balustrades and handrails, and fix the windows, doors and plaster in Mount Duneed’s estate homes. Half the locality is still farmland on the Surf Coast side, so we can work on acreage here too.
Mount Duneed is two places: new estates on the Greater Geelong side and farmland on the Surf Coast side.
Villawood’s ARMSTRONG estate is 99% sold with about 1,500 homes completed, and Warralily Grange is selling from Whites Road. Once the builders leave, the work tends to shift to decks, pergolas and fit-outs. Of our 12 Mount Duneed jobs, painting came up in 6 and doors, windows and plaster in 4 each, with decks and balustrades in 3, plus handrail work. Estate design guidelines can cover anything seen from the street, so we check them first.
The average Mount Duneed home has 3.6 bedrooms, and almost all are separate houses. Most of the locality sits on basalt with sodic clay subsoils, which can disperse and move when wet. That can be behind plaster cracks and sticking windows, and it is why we look at drainage around a new deck or paving before we build.
About half of Mount Duneed is in Surf Coast Shire, most of it farmland, and about nine in ten hectares across the locality are mapped as bushfire prone. On acreage that means sheds, verandahs and extensions built to the right bushfire level. On the estate side, lots under 300 square metres tagged for the Small Lot Housing Code can be extended without a planning permit if the work meets the code.
Running a tenancy in Mt Duneed Village or fitting out space nearby? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
Ordered by the work we have done in Mount Duneed, then what estate and acreage homes need.
Painting and plaster repairs, our most common Mount Duneed work.
Doors and windows that stick as the ground moves.
Decks with balustrades and handrails built to code.
Loose balustrades and worn boards fixed.
Shade that suits the estate guidelines.
Verandahs on acreage homes, built for bushfire country.
Estate fences and rural runs.
A call or a message, with the estate or the address so we know which council applies.
Estate guidelines, the small-lot code, or bushfire mapping on acreage.
Itemised and free, with what is included and what is not.
The same team the whole way, and a check once the job has settled.
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.
The name Mount Duneed comes from a Gaelic word for a circular mound. The area was subdivided into small farms between 1855 and 1860, and its government school opened in 1878. Today the Armstrong Creek West growth area sits wholly inside Mount Duneed, and Mirripoa Primary School opened here in 2020.
The 2021 census counted 6,182 residents with a median age of 32, and the estates have kept growing since. Large new family homes on moving ground, with farmland next door, are why the work here runs from decks and plaster to sheds.
Armstrong Creek • Waurn Ponds • Charlemont • Torquay • Grovedale
Mount Duneed borders Freshwater Creek, Waurn Ponds, Torquay, Armstrong Creek, Connewarre, Grovedale and Charlemont.
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with what suits the house and a free estimate.