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We remove and build fences, fix doors and can plan sheds, verandahs and extensions on Wallington’s rural living blocks between Ocean Grove and Leopold. Nearly every address here is bushfire prone, and some sit on the Lake Connewarre escarpment, so we check the rules before we start.
Wallington is rural living country: big houses on one- to five-hectare blocks, farms, and the Ocean Grove Nature Reserve in the south-east corner.
Our 6 Wallington jobs include removing 75 metres of fence and sending it for steel recycling; two door jobs at a disinfection plant, where a rotten door was replaced with a slab door, drip guard and drop seal and hinges and a seal were changed on other doors; cutting vents into a double-brick wall with new lintels; and building a platform and stairs with lattice for portable toilets. On acreage, a fence line or a shed door is often the job that has waited longest.
About six in ten Wallington addresses are in the Rural Living Zone. There, an extension of up to 200 square metres or an outbuilding of up to 250 square metres needs no planning permit, provided it is at least 30 metres from the Bellarine Highway and 100 metres from a waterway. On the Lake Connewarre escarpment, a landscape overlay limits permit-free extensions to 7.5 metres high and a 100 square metre footprint in muted colours, and fences need a permit unless they are open post-and-rail up to 1.8 metres or solid up to 1.2 metres.
Wallington has 648 of its 652 addresses in the bushfire prone area, and about 100 under the Bushfire Management Overlay. Under the 2026 changes, an extension adding no more than half the floor area, or an outbuilding under 100 square metres, is exempt from that overlay. With homes averaging 3.8 bedrooms and half owned outright, the work here is mostly improving houses people plan to stay in.
Looking after the Adventure Park, the school, the aged-care home or a winery in Wallington? That side of our work is on our commercial carpentry page for Wallington.
Ordered by the work we have done in Wallington, then what rural living homes need.
Fence lines removed, and new ones built.
Slab doors, drip guards and drop seals fitted.
Doors re-hung with new hinges and seals.
Extensions sited to the setbacks and escarpment rules.
Wide verandahs built to the bushfire level.
Decks and platforms on acreage.
Driveway and paddock gates.
A call or a message, with the address so we can check zone, escarpment and fire mapping.
Highway, waterway and boundary distances decide whether a permit is needed.
Itemised and free, with any bushfire construction needs included.
The same crew start to finish, with old materials taken away or recycled.
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.
Wallington began in 1853, when landholder Fairfax Fenwick subdivided part of his property on the road to Queenscliff and named it after Wallington in Hertfordshire. A hotel opened in 1855; a later one became known for its gardens and for strawberries and cream for travellers to Queenscliff, a tradition kept alive by the Wallington Strawberry Festival. The state school opened in 1900.
The 2021 census counted 1,515 residents with a median age of 48, every home a separate house. Big rural living blocks, the escarpment and bushfire rules are why the work here is planned as carefully as it is built.
Ocean Grove • Leopold • Connewarre • Drysdale • Barwon Heads
Wallington borders Connewarre, Ocean Grove, Curlewis, Leopold, Marcus Hill, Mannerim, Barwon Heads and Drysdale.
Tell us what you have in mind and we will come back with what the rules allow and a free estimate.