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North Shore is where we are based. We can repair and renovate the small pocket of houses between the port and Corio Bay, and we know the planning rules that come with living next to a working port.
North Shore is mostly port and industry, with about 195 homes around Seaside Parade, Seabeach Parade, Pine Avenue and The Esplanade.
JFM’s base is on Seaside Parade. A North Shore job is just around the corner for us, which makes a quick look, a small repair or a return visit easy to fit in. We know these streets as neighbours do.
North Shore’s housing is zoned under a neighbourhood residential schedule named for the suburb, and subdividing into lots under 500 square metres has to come with plans for the houses. Nearly all of the residential pocket also sits in the Port of Geelong environs overlay, which protects the port’s future and can bring a permit into play for new dwellings and some works. So most work here is repairing and renovating the houses already standing, and we check the overlay before we plan anything bigger.
The area was subdivided in 1892 as a residential locality with an esplanade, a park and a jetty, and by 1902 it was a small holiday resort. Housing grew west of the industrial land. Their weatherboards, windows, decks and fences are what these houses need, and with more than four in ten homes rented, so are repairs for landlords.
Running a warehouse or yard in the North Shore industrial precinct? The commercial side of our work is on the commercial carpentry page for North Shore.
The jobs North Shore’s bayside houses and rentals need.
Small repairs and the ongoing list, close to home.
Boards on the older bayside houses.
Sticking and worn timber windows.
Doors that drop and stick.
New and rebuilt decks.
Front and boundary fences.
For landlords, with four in ten homes rented.
A call or a message. We are close by, so we can often come and look quickly.
For anything beyond repair, we check whether the port environs overlay brings a permit into play.
Itemised and free, and quick, because we are just around the corner.
The same crew start to finish, and easy to come back to if anything needs a second look.
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.
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.
By the mid-1920s the name Corio had replaced Cowie in this area, and the land around Cowies Creek became North Shore. The mouth of the creek was dug out to become Corio Quay from 1909, and in 1925 the Ford factory and the Pivot phosphate works both opened here.
The bayside streets were first laid out in 1892, before most of that industry arrived. The 2021 census counted just 325 residents. A small, old residential pocket wrapped in port land is why the work here is repair and renovation rather than new building.
Corio • North Geelong • Geelong
North Shore borders Corio, Norlane and North Geelong, with Corio Bay to the east.
We are just down the road. Tell us what you are dealing with and we will come back with a free estimate.