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We can rebuild the decks, pergolas and fences on Torquay’s sold-out estates, repair and extend the old beach houses near the foreshore, and help families add room now that the town has a fixed edge. Growth is now held inside a fixed boundary, and the estates built in the last boom are coming due.
Torquay is still growing, but inside an edge that is now set. A lot of the work comes from the houses already built within it.
Highlander, Zeally Sands, Seachange, Salt and Surf View are among the Torquay estates now listed as sold out, and Stretton in Torquay North released its Stage 7 back in 2023. Many sit on compact lots, Stretton’s Stage 7 ran from about 380 square metres, and the oldest of them have decks, fences and shade structures reaching the end of their early life. We re-board and rebuild decks, replace paling fences and add the pergola the backyard was always waiting for.
Council’s character study records concern about small holiday homes being replaced with larger houses, and describes the older stock as weatherboard and fibro with iron roofs. Many of those houses are still worth keeping. In Old Torquay North, Wombah Park and the Church Estate, the design overlay wants garages and carports set at least 1 metre behind the front wall, so we plan extensions and carports with that rule in mind from the start.
Torquay’s protected settlement boundary was written into the planning scheme in February 2026. Spring Creek now sits outside it, and council says Messmate Road has no set start date. So families extend rather than move: a second living area, a studio, a deck that becomes an outdoor room. In central Torquay the landscape overlay protects Moonah and Bellarine Yellow Gum, and we design around them rather than through them.
Managing a tenancy on Gilbert Street or a unit in Baines Crescent? The commercial side of our work is on the commercial carpentry page for Torquay.
Doors are the job we have done most in Torquay, 7 of our 23 jobs, with decks and stairs next. The rest follows the age of the estates and the beach houses.
Doors and locks, the most common job we have done in Torquay.
Oiling, staining and re-coating estate decks gone grey.
New boards on a sound frame, or a full rebuild.
Shade over a compact estate backyard.
Leaning and rotting palings on the older estates.
Boards on the original Old Torquay beach houses.
Extensions and second living areas inside the boundary.
For landlords and property managers with Torquay rentals.
A call or a message. A photo of the deck or the wall helps a lot.
For a deck, we check the frame under the boards. For an extension in Old Torquay, the garage setback and the 7.5 m height line.
Itemised, free, and clear about whether it is a repair, a re-board or a rebuild.
The same crew start to finish, and a return visit to check the work has held.
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.
Torquay was first known as Spring Creek. At the suggestion of James Follett, who came from Torquay in Devon, the name Torquay was officially adopted in 1892. In 1967 Fred Pyke opened a surfboard shop in town, and Rip Curl, Quiksilver and Piping Hot all began there.
From a holiday town of weatherboard and fibro, Torquay became the Surf Coast’s growth engine: between 2017 and 2022 Torquay and Jan Juc accounted for 83% of all residential subdivision in the shire. The 2021 census counted 18,534 residents, and half the homes have four or more bedrooms. Now the boundary is fixed, so more and more of the work here is looking after and extending the houses already standing.
Jan Juc • Anglesea • Surf Coast
Torquay borders Jan Juc, Bellbrae, Mount Duneed, Freshwater Creek, Connewarre and Breamlea.
Send us a photo of the deck, the fence or the wall, and we will come back with a straight answer and a free estimate.