Small jobs & repairs, Melbourne.

The jobs we actually get called for

Most Melbourne houses carry a list of jobs that never get done. Each one is too small to interest a builder, too fiddly to give up a Saturday for, and not quite anybody's trade. So the list sits there for a year or two — until the rot spreads into something structural, or the house goes on the market, and all of it matters at once.

Stud Building is a small carpentry business, which is exactly why a half-day job is worth our time. Almost everything on that list is timber, and timber is what we work in every day. We quote a two-hour repair the same way we'd quote a deck: come out, look at it properly, then give you a fixed price in writing before anything starts.

The work we're called out for most often:

• Rotten door frames, jambs and sills
• Doors that stick, have dropped, or won't latch
• Rotten or springy deck boards
• Fascia, barge boards and eaves timber
• Gates that have dropped and won't close
• Fence palings, rails and posts
• Skirting and architrave replaced after a leak
• Shelving, hooks, blinds and flat-pack assembly
• Pre-sale and end-of-lease tidy-ups

If your list is mostly doors, the doors and frames page goes into that work in more detail — hanging, easing, and replacing frames and sills. If it's the deck that's gone soft, see decking and outdoor structures: sometimes it's a handful of boards, sometimes the frame underneath has gone too, and the point of the on-site look is to tell you which one you're dealing with before you spend anything.

We're based in Mitcham and cover Melbourne's eastern suburbs — Nunawading, Blackburn, Box Hill, Vermont, Doncaster, Templestowe, Camberwell, Balwyn, Burwood, Mount Waverley and Glen Waverley. Mon–Sat, 7am–6pm.

What a small job costs

Small work is normally charged by the hour. Anything with a clear scope — a door, a run of palings, a set of boards — gets a fixed price instead, so you know the number before we pick up a tool. These are the same figures published across the rest of the site.

Ballpark figures to help you plan — every job gets a fixed price in writing after a free on-site visit.

What we don't do

We're a carpenter, not an all-trades service, and it saves everyone a wasted morning to be straight about the line. If the job is in timber — structure, doors, decking, fences, trim, fixings into walls — it's ours, and we'd rather have all of it in one visit.

Electrical, plumbing and gas are licensed trades and we don't touch them. No power points or light fittings, no taps or waste pipes, no hot water units, no gas appliances.

Where a job needs a sparky or a plumber alongside the carpentry, we'll tell you at the quote rather than halfway through the morning. That's most often a kitchen or laundry job where the cabinetry is ours and the connections aren't, or rot around a leaking pipe that will simply come back if the leak isn't fixed first.

Landlords and property managers

A good share of this work comes from landlords and managing agents, usually from a tenant's maintenance request that nobody has laid eyes on yet. That job is a different shape to a homeowner's — you're deciding on a repair you can't see, for a property you're not standing in.

So we work the way that makes that manageable. Photos of the fault before we start and of the repair once it's finished, so there's a record of what was actually wrong. An invoice written plainly enough to pass straight to the owner without a translation. And one named point of contact on the other end of the phone — you'll deal with the same person who did the work, not a booking line.

If a tenant has flagged three things and only one is urgent, say so and we'll do the urgent one first and quote the rest.

Frequently asked questions

Get a free quote for repairs & maintenance in Melbourne

Call 0449 618 471 or fill in our form and we'll get back to you within one business day. We offer free on-site visits across Melbourne — we come to you, assess the job, and give you a clear fixed-price quote.