carpentry in Murrumbeena

Defined jobs get an itemised fixed price against the usual Melbourne bands: decking $350 to $650 or more per square metre installed, door hanging and trim roughly $120 to $250 per door set, and load-bearing wall removal $3,500 to $9,000 including engineering and the steel beam. Smaller unpredictable work runs on time and materials at $80 to $120 plus GST per hour with a day rate around $650 to $950 plus GST. On the interwar stock the variable that most often moves a quote is what we find under the floor, which is why we go under and look before pricing rather than after. Call 0468 347 781.

Yes to all three. They sit along the same elevated rail corridor and share much the same housing mix, being interwar bungalows on timber stumps with newer apartment and townhouse stock clustered near the stations, so we treat them as one working area. We also cover Caulfield, Glen Huntly, Ormond and Malvern East around them, which means we are usually somewhere nearby on any given day. That is why smaller jobs here are worth us taking rather than being priced to go away, because we can group them into a single run. Call 0468 347 781 and tell us the street.

On an interwar bungalow the cause is almost always below the floor rather than in the room. Timber stumps rot at ground level where the moisture sits, and once a stump drops, the bearer and joist ends bearing on it go with it, which produces a local slope rather than a uniform one and opens gaps where the skirting can no longer follow the floor. The contributing factor is nearly always subfloor ventilation that has been closed off over the decades by paving, concrete paths, garden beds and rear additions. We get under with a light and a moisture meter and photograph what is actually there before quoting anything.

Yes, and it matters more than people expect. Interwar skirting, architrave and weatherboard profiles are frequently not stock items, and a modern equivalent sitting beside an original is obvious even to someone who cannot articulate why. We take the profile off the existing timber, have it run where we cannot buy it, and replace only the damaged sections rather than an entire wall or an entire room, because the original hardwood in these houses is usually better than what is available today.

Yes. The development that followed the elevated rail line has added a lot of apartment and townhouse stock around Murrumbeena station, and that work is balcony timber and screening, balustrade brought up to the code requirements of a one metre minimum height and no gap passing a 125mm sphere, internal fit-outs, and make-good between tenancies. We deal with building management for access, hours and inductions, and we supply the insurance certificate of currency and safe work documentation they need before a key is issued.

It depends on what is holding it up rather than what it looks like. Where posts are sound and the problem is palings, rails or a gate that has dropped, repair is quick and cheap and we would recommend it. Where posts have rotted at ground level, or the fence has racked because it was never braced, replacement of the affected posts and a rebuild of that run is the honest answer. On a boundary fence it is also worth knowing that the Fences Act 1968 in Victoria sets out a notice process and a general 50/50 cost split with your neighbour, so that conversation is best had before timber is ordered.