Commercial Building Maintenance in Perth
High-Rise, Retail, Childcare and Strata Property Maintenance
Planned Maintenance and Reactive Repairs for Commercial Property
Maintenance That Works Around Your Tenants and Trading Hours
Kangaroo Building Works looks after commercial and strata property across Perth, Rockingham and Mandurah. Most of our commercial work is the ongoing kind: the carpentry and repair work a building needs month after month to stay safe, presentable and in good order, rather than one large project every decade.
We work for facility managers, strata managers, retail operators, childcare providers, school business managers and small business owners. What nearly all of them have in common is that the building has to keep operating while the work gets done. Shops still have to trade, a childcare centre still has to open at 6.30am, and the people in an office tower still need to get in and out. That shapes how we schedule and how we work far more than the job itself does.
A commercial property throws up a steady stream of small faults that each look trivial on their own: a fire-stair door that no longer latches, a ceiling tile stained by a leak from the floor above, a laminate counter lifting at the join, a gate dragging on the path. Left alone they accumulate, the building starts to look tired, and the repair bill arrives all at once. Dealt with on a schedule, they stay small.
We are a Master Builders WA member. Our work is carpentry, joinery and general building maintenance – doors, frames, hardware, ceilings, linings, partitions, cabinetry, flooring, fencing, decking and make good.
The commercial property we look after
Every kind of commercial building wears differently, and the jobs that come up are specific to how the place is used.
- High-rise and multi-storey buildings – common area and corridor repairs, fire-stair and riser door adjustment and hardware, lobby and lift-surround joinery, car park pedestrian doors, handrail and balustrade timber, and the make good work that follows a tenancy change.
- Retail stores and shopping centres – shopfront doors and closers, counters and service desks, display joinery, shelving and stockroom fit-out, suspended ceiling tiles and grid, wall linings, and end-of-lease make good between tenants. Most of it done overnight or before the centre opens.
- Childcare and early learning centres – the highest-wear buildings we work in. Self-closing gates and latches, boundary and internal fencing, nappy change benches and joinery, storage cupboards, door protection, soft-fall edging and timber play structures, plus the constant small repairs that come with very heavy daily use.
- Offices and commercial suites – partitions, glazed and solid doors, hardware and closers, reception and kitchenette joinery, workstation and storage repairs, and reinstatement when a floor is reconfigured.
- Strata and apartment buildings – common property repairs for strata managers and councils of owners: entry doors, letterbox surrounds, store rooms, bin enclosures, gates, fencing, balcony timber and common area linings.
- Schools and community buildings – classroom doors and hardware, cupboards and shelving, verandah and walkway timber, notice boards, fencing and gates, scheduled into term breaks wherever it can be.
- Medical, dental and allied health – joinery and bench repairs, door hardware, wall protection and linings, carried out between patient lists.
- Hospitality – cafes, pubs and restaurants – bar and counter joinery, doors, external screens and decking, and the heavy-wear repairs that come with a public venue.
- Warehouses and light industrial – pedestrian and roller door surrounds, internal partitions, office fit-out inside the shed, racking surrounds, bollard and gate repairs.
- Aged care and retirement villages – handrail and grab-rail timber, door hardware, cupboard and bench joinery, and unit refurbishment between residents.
What a commercial maintenance program covers
A program is simply an agreed schedule of visits, plus an agreed way of handling whatever comes up in between. We build it around how the property is actually used rather than around a fixed package.
- Scheduled inspection visits – monthly, quarterly or six-monthly. We walk the building, fix the small things on the spot, and report anything that needs a quote.
- Doors and hardware – by a long way the most common commercial repair. Closers, hinges, locks, latches, seals and door leaves across every door in the building, kept working properly so they are not propped open or forced.
- Ceilings and wall linings – replacing stained or damaged tiles and sheeting, grid repairs, and patching and making good after a leak or an impact.
- Joinery and fit-out repairs – counters, benches, cupboards, shelving and storage, including laminate, edging, hinges and drawer runners.
- Flooring – lifting and re-laying damaged sections, thresholds, trims and transitions, and timber floor repairs.
- External works – fencing, gates, screens, decking, pergolas, walkway timber and external joinery.
- Make good and reinstatement – returning a tenancy to base condition at the end of a lease, or reinstating after a fit-out is stripped out.
- Reactive call-outs – the things that will not wait for the next scheduled visit, picked up in between.
- Emergency make safe – 24/7 response after storm, impact or break-in damage, on our emergency make safe page.
Everything is reported back with photographs, so whoever signs the invoice can see what was done without having to walk the building themselves.
Working on a building that has to keep trading
On a commercial site, how the work is carried out matters as much as the work itself. This is usually what separates a trade used to houses from one used to occupied buildings.
- After hours, nights and weekends – retail and hospitality work is normally done outside trading hours, and childcare and school work in the holidays or after close. We plan around your hours, not ours.
- Site rules and inductions – we work to whatever induction, sign-in, access and contractor requirements the building or the managing agent already has in place.
- Keeping the public clear – barriers, signage and tidy work areas, so customers, residents, staff and children are never walking through a work zone.
- Dust, noise and disruption – containment and low-impact methods where people are still in the building, and the noisy work moved to a time that suits you.
- One point of contact – you deal with the same person every time, so nothing has to be explained twice.
- Clear, itemised quoting – priced per site and per job, so a managing agent can pass on or recover costs without rewriting anything.
- Clean handover – the area is left ready to use, not ready for somebody else to clean.
For operators with more than one site we keep a record of what has been done at each address, so patterns show up – the same door failing twice in a year usually means something other than the door is the problem.
Who we work with, and where
We are based in Byford and work across the Perth metropolitan area, the Rockingham and Kwinana coast and the Mandurah and Peel region, with most of our commercial work through the southern and south-eastern corridor: Armadale, Gosnells, Canning Vale, Cannington, Cockburn, Jandakot, Bibra Lake, Rockingham, Baldivis and Mandurah.
Our commercial clients are facility and strata managers, childcare and early learning operators, retail and hospitality groups, schools, medical practices, and owners with more than one property. There is more about the areas we cover on our Perth, Rockingham and Mandurah pages.
What our customers say
Talk to us about a maintenance program
Tell us what the building is, how it is used and what keeps going wrong, and we will put together a schedule and a price. Call 0410 914 782 or request a quote. For damage that needs securing right now, we answer emergency make safe calls 24/7.
