carpentry in Glen Huntly

Small and unpredictable work is charged on time and materials, with qualified carpentry labour in Melbourne generally at $80 to $120 plus GST per hour and a day rate around $650 to $950 plus GST. Defined jobs get an itemised fixed price instead, and the usual bands apply: door hanging and trim at roughly $120 to $250 per door set, decking at $350 to $650 or more per square metre installed, and load-bearing wall removal at $3,500 to $9,000 including the engineering and the steel. We are based in neighbouring Caulfield, so the site visit is free and same day and there is no travel loading on a small job.

Yes, and Carnegie, Murrumbeena, Elsternwick and Bentleigh as well. Glen Huntly is small and sits directly between several of our core suburbs, so it is one of the easiest places for us to get to. Note that the suburb is Glen Huntly as two words while the station is spelled Glenhuntly, which trips up more than a few searches. Call 0468 347 781.

It can, and it is worth mentioning when you call. The Neerim Road and Glen Huntly Road crossings were removed by lowering the rail, with the new station opening in July 2023, and the reinstatement works through streets such as Derby, Leamington, Station, Dorothy, Royal and Queens involved changes to levels, boundaries and fence lines. Where ground has been disturbed and backfilled, footings for fences, decks and outdoor structures need to be taken to firm material rather than into fill, otherwise they settle. We check what we are digging into before we pour rather than assuming, and we will say plainly if we think a footing needs to go deeper than a standard detail.

That seasonal pattern is the signature of reactive clay, which runs through this part of Glen Eira. The ground takes water through winter and swells, then dries and shrinks through summer, and a few millimetres of movement in the footings is enough to drop a door frame out of square, open an architrave mitre and crack the same corner of cornice year after year. If it comes and goes with the weather it is movement, and the fix is adjustment rather than reconstruction. If it appeared once and never corrected, something under the house has more likely failed and it needs a subfloor inspection first.

Yes. We build and repair timber and Colorbond fencing, gates and boundary work throughout Glen Huntly, including the reinstated fence lines near the corridor. On a boundary fence between neighbours it is worth knowing that the Fences Act 1968 in Victoria sets out a notice process and a general 50/50 split of the cost of a sufficient dividing fence, so the conversation with your neighbour is best had before the timber is ordered. We build fence posts to a minimum 600mm depth into firm ground and set them properly rather than propping them in loose fill.

Very quickly, because Glen Huntly is a few minutes from our Caulfield base. Site visits are free and same day, and once a quote is accepted we have a carpenter on the tools within three days. For urgent work affecting security or weather-tightness, such as a forced door, a broken window or storm damage, we run a 24/7 emergency make-safe service that will get there far sooner. Standard hours are Monday to Friday 7am to 5pm and Saturday 7am to 2pm.