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We can build sheds, verandahs and decks and repair farm and lifestyle homes around Mount Moriac. We have done 13 jobs in Waurn Ponds, which borders it.
Mount Moriac is farming country along the Princes Highway west of Waurn Ponds, with a hotel, a recreation reserve and a church.
The median property is about 12.5 hectares, and more than half of homes have four or more bedrooms. The work is sheds, verandahs, decks, fences and the repairs farmhouses need. Mount Moriac is almost entirely Farming Zone, with no residential or rural living land.
About a third of Mount Moriac needs 40 hectares for a house without a permit, and the rest needs 60, so most new homes need one. Extensions up to 200 square metres and outbuildings up to 250 square metres that go with the house need no permit under the zone if they are 20 metres from most roads (100 metres from the highway acquisition land), 5 metres from boundaries, 100 metres from a neighbour’s house and 100 metres from a waterway, wetland or designated flood plain.
A public acquisition overlay runs along the Princes Highway for the planned duplication, so check before building near it. Small flood overlays cover parts of the locality. The whole locality is bushfire prone, though no Bushfire Management Overlay applies.
Looking after the hotel, the reserve pavilion or a farm business around Mount Moriac? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page.
What Mount Moriac’s farm and lifestyle homes need most.
Rooms added within the 200 m² farm exemption.
Entertaining decks for family homes.
Shade on the north and west sides of farmhouses.
Machinery-width gates and driveway entries.
Fences around the house and yards.
Older decks re-boarded and re-fixed.
Back and laundry doors that have worked loose.
And the road, so we can check which farming schedule applies.
Including the highway acquisition land and any flood mapping.
Free and itemised, before work is booked.
Materials loaded so the job doesn’t drag out.
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.
Mount Moriac was once the district’s administrative centre, with a police station, court and the offices of the Barrabool Hills Road Board. The shire offices moved to Geelong in 1949, and the old shire hall was demolished in 1989.
The 2021 census counted 251 residents with a median age of 42, every home a separate house. Family homes on farms are why the work here is practical and planned around the farming rules.
Waurn Ponds • Moriac • Freshwater Creek • Barrabool • Modewarre
Mount Moriac borders Barrabool, Gnarwarre, Moriac, Buckley, Waurn Ponds, Freshwater Creek and Modewarre.
Tell us the road and the job, and we will come back with what the farming rules allow and a free estimate.