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Carpenters in Sydney

Every business below is checked against the QBCC licence register and ranked by quantified Google-review themes — never by who paid.

Showing all 8 licensed carpenters across SydneyUpdated 2026-08-31 · Register NSW Trades Register

Based in Prestons

Professional & friendly · 8Quality of work · 8Response time · 2

Customers at All Cabinets Joinery keep naming the same tradesperson, which points to the owner doing the work themselves. Kitchens and joinery come up most often in what they describe, ahead of renovations and bathrooms and laundries. The oldest review on All Cabinets Joinery's Google profile is from May 2019, putting more than seven years of feedback on record. The NSW Trades Register listed a current Joiner licence when checked on 31 August 2026. As of 28 August 2026, the business shows 4.9 stars across 16 Google reviews.

Based in Lane Cove West

Quality of work · 42Professional & friendly · 35Response time · 27

Customers most often bring up repairs & timber rot at AsNu Group Of Trades, with renovations and doors, windows & trim also coming up in the sample analysed as of 28 August 2026. Google reviews for the Lane Cove West carpenter go back to April 2016, over a decade of history on record. The owner writes back to 73 of the 79 customers who left feedback. Rated 4.1 stars across 94 Google reviews, the business holds a current NSW Trades Register licence in three classes — Decorator, Carpenter and Painter — confirmed on 31 August 2026.

Based in Manly Vale

Quality of work · 11Professional & friendly · 6Communication · 6

Customers at CGB Carpentry keep naming the same tradesperson, which points to an owner who does the work themselves rather than a crew. The owner also writes back to 13 of the 14 customers who leave feedback on Google, a pattern that suggests a hands-on approach to client communication. The Manly Vale carpenter's NSW Trades Register licence, covering Carpenter and Kitchen Bathroom Laundry Renovator, was confirmed current on 31 August 2026. As of 28 August 2026, the business holds a 5-star rating across 14 Google reviews.

Based in Randwick

Quality of work · 57Professional & friendly · 42Response time · 27

At Fine Deck, customers bring up decks & pergolas more than any other job, with repairs & timber rot trailing behind. One tradesperson is named in most of the 78 reviews analysed as of 28 August 2026, a pattern suggesting the owner handles the work personally. The earliest Google review for this Randwick carpenter lands in May 2020, marking over six years of feedback. The NSW Trades Register confirmed a current licence in two classes — Carpenter and Joiner — on 31 August 2026. The owner writes back to a sizeable share of customers who leave feedback. 5 stars across 80 Google reviews.

Based in Cranebrook

Quality of work · 10Response time · 5Professional & friendly · 5

The oldest review on Genesis Carpentry Services' Google profile is from November 2020, so the Cranebrook carpenter has over five years of customer feedback behind it. The owner writes back to 16 of the 18 customers who left feedback. Customers most often bring up the quality of work, with decks & pergolas and new builds among the jobs mentioned. It is rated 4.6 stars across 20 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026. The business holds a current NSW Trades Register licence in the Carpenter class, confirmed on 31 August 2026.

Based in Narraweena

Quality of work · 17Professional & friendly · 16Response time · 11

At Grand Solution Projects, the people customers name are several, with office or booking staff among them — a pattern pointing to a team plus a front desk, not a solo tradie, which is the more common shape among Sydney carpentry businesses. The oldest Google review for this Narraweena outfit lands in August 2020, so the sampled feedback spans more than six years as of the 28 August 2026 snapshot. The Carpenter class licence was listed as current on the NSW Trades Register when checked on 31 August 2026. The business holds 5 stars across 36 Google reviews.

Based in Cromer

Professional & friendly · 12Quality of work · 9Communication · 6

Customers at Interspec Custom Joinery keep naming more than one person, including someone handling the office side — the pattern suggests a team where the desk is covered separately from the hands-on work. Kitchens and joinery lead what those customers describe, with repairs and timber rot also coming up. The NSW Trades Register confirmed the Cromer carpenter's licence in two classes — Joiner and Kitchen Bathroom Laundry Renovator — as current on 31 August 2026. The business carries a 5.0 rating across 18 Google reviews as of 28 August 2026.

Based in Chester Hill

Quality of work · 13Professional & friendly · 11Response time · 6

Customers at Sydney City Kitchens Pty Ltd talk about kitchens & joinery more than anything else, with bathrooms & laundries and renovations coming up behind. The people who hired them name several staff members, including someone at the desk, suggesting a team with a front office. The oldest review on its Google profile is from October 2016, giving it nearly a decade of feedback. As of 28 August 2026, it holds 4.9 stars across 27 Google reviews, and the NSW Trades Register confirmed its licence in two classes — Joiner and Kitchen Bathroom Laundry Renovator — as current on 31 August 2026.

About carpenters in Sydney

Carpenter and Joiner are separate entries on the NSW register, and the line between them is structural. The Home Building Regulation 2014 lists carpentry and joinery as distinct trade categories at clause 13(b), then in Schedule 4 gives carpentry the cutting and placing of timber on site to erect framing and fix components such as stairs, windows, doors and floors, while joinery covers non-structural components made to measure and fixed to a dwelling — built-in cupboards, wardrobes and the like — which may be built off site and installed as a completed unit. Both are residential building work, so the $5,000 threshold governs when a licence is required.

Sydney's older attached housing sets much of the brief: within the City of Sydney council area rather than Greater Sydney, semi-detached, row and terrace housing accounted for 18.3% of occupied private dwellings at the 2021 Census, and it brings stairs, internal doors and made-to-measure storage in narrow rooms as the recurring work. In strata the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 draws a line most owners do not expect. Section 109 lets an owner carry out cosmetic work to common property without the owners corporation's approval, and names installing or replacing built-in wardrobes on that list alongside painting and laying carpet. Section 109(5) then takes work involving structural changes, and work involving reconfiguring walls, back off it — and section 110(3)(e) puts reconfiguring walls among the minor renovations that need a resolution at a general meeting. So two jobs a carpenter might quote on the same visit can sit on opposite sides of the approval question.

Typical prices in Sydney

Ranges reflect quotes observed locally — not national averages, not advertised "from" prices.

ServiceTypical range (A$)
General carpentry job — repairs, fit-out and small builds
Airtasker's Sydney carpentry category page (fetched 31 August 2026): $132–$500, median $260, from 457 reviews — the largest Sydney sample used on this page. Completed Sydney tasks inside that band include a wooden windowsill repair at $400, removing a laundry bench at $350 and cutting and fitting shelves into a cabinet at $150; a $5,000 imported-kitchen install listed on the same page sits well outside it. Geo-template check: Melbourne shows $130–$490, median $250, from 801 reviews — close in level, but the medians and review counts move on their own rather than tracking a ratio.
A$132A$500
Internal door or door hardware — hang, replace, adjust
Airtasker's Sydney door installation category page (fetched 31 August 2026): $130–$360, median $200, from 118 reviews. The category is mixed — postings for a doorbell camera and for car door speakers sit alongside joinery work — so this row keeps the page's own band and flags that contamination rather than recomputing from tasks that may not be carpentry at all. Sydney tasks that clearly are: hinge, handle and lock jobs at $100–$350 inside the band, an internal door installed, a door installation at $500 and a sliding door installation at $1,500 above it. Geo-template check: Melbourne shows $110–$250, median $150, from 237 reviews.
A$130A$360
Built-in wardrobe — repair, adjust or remove
Airtasker's Sydney built-in wardrobe category page (fetched 31 August 2026): $150–$400, median $255, from 20 reviews. Completed Sydney tasks in that scope: hanging rails fitted $250, sliding door wheels replaced $100 and $200, a collapsed hanging rod repaired $200, a kick trim $200, and wardrobe removals at $430, $500 and $600. Build-and-install joinery listed on the same page at $500 and $800 belongs to the next row instead. Geo-template check: Melbourne shows $262–$875, median $360, from 15 reviews.
A$150A$400
Custom joinery made and installed — cabinetry, wardrobes, built-ins
Airtasker's Sydney cabinet making category page (fetched 31 August 2026) states $289–$600, median $500, from 19 reviews, but its completed Sydney build-and-install tasks run higher: $550, $1,000, $1,200, $1,500, $2,000, $2,000, $2,400, $2,500 and $2,500. This row takes $500–$2,500 from that cluster; a $3,000 job and a $5,000 wardrobe, laundry and pantry job on the same page sit above it, and small repairs at $50–$300 sit below. Geo-template check: Melbourne shows $67–$424, median $220, from 51 reviews — a different band on a different sample size.
A$500A$2,500
Timber deck — repair, sand and restore
Airtasker's Sydney decking category page (fetched 31 August 2026): $250–$880, median $500, from 107 reviews. Completed Sydney tasks in scope: deck cleaning and restoration $250, sanding and painting a deck and privacy screen $300, rotted planks replaced and stained $500, and repair and stain $1,000. Geo-template check: Melbourne shows $250–$700, median $450, from 235 reviews — the same floor but a different ceiling, a different median and twice the sample, which is what two independent aggregations look like.
A$250A$880
New timber deck — supplied and built
Completed Sydney tasks on the same decking category page (fetched 31 August 2026) that describe a new build rather than an alteration: supply and install a timber deck $1,000, build a deck $1,500, outdoor decking $1,800, new side decks $4,000, and a decking build, repair and restoration job at $5,000. Composite decking at $450, a small deck modification at $700 and a deck completion at $750 are alterations to existing structures and are excluded from this row.
A$1,000A$5,000

Common questions

Carpentry or joinery — which category covers the job I'm booking?

Schedule 4 of the Home Building Regulation 2014 separates them by what the timber does. Carpentry is work involved in cutting and placing timber, or timber composites, in construction work on site to erect framing and fix components or assemblies such as stairs, windows, doors, wallboards and floors — with plaster boards carved out, because those are dry plastering. Joinery is the making and installation of non-structural timber, timber composite or metal components for buildings, made to measure and fixed to a dwelling. A staircase is carpentry; a run of built-in cupboards is joinery. The register displays the categories as Carpenter and Joiner, and a badge lists whichever classes the register returns for that licence.

Does a new deck or pergola need a licensed carpenter, and what about the footings?

Above $5,000 in labour and materials at reasonable market cost, yes — that is the threshold clause 12 of the Home Building Regulation 2014 sets for the exclusion in Schedule 1 of the Home Building Act 1989. On the footings, Schedule 4 is unusually specific: the carpentry category expressly includes concreting for footings or structural support associated with outdoor construction, giving pergolas, timber decks and timber and metal fencing as its examples, but not concrete paths and slabs, which fall in the general concreting category instead. It also covers minor non-structural concreting associated with a dwelling where that concreting is ancillary to the carpentry work.

I'm in an apartment — do built-in wardrobes need the owners corporation's approval?

Installing or replacing built-in wardrobes is one of the seven items section 109 of the Strata Schemes Management Act 2015 lists as cosmetic work, which an owner may carry out to common property without the owners corporation's approval — the others are hooks, nails and screws for hanging things, handrails, painting, filling minor holes and cracks in internal walls, laying carpet, and internal blinds and curtains. The qualifications in section 109(5) are what decide most real cases: cosmetic work does not include work involving structural changes, work that changes the external appearance of a lot, work that detrimentally affects safety including fire safety systems, work involving waterproofing or the plumbing or exhaust system, work involving reconfiguring walls, or work needing consent under another Act.

How long does the statutory warranty on carpentry work run?

Section 18E(1)(b) of the Home Building Act 1989 sets six years for a breach resulting in a major defect and two years in any other case, both starting on completion of the work. A breach becomes apparent when the person entitled to the warranty first becomes aware, or ought reasonably to have become aware, of it — and under section 18E(1)(e), if that happens within the last six months of the period, proceedings can still be started within a further six months after the period ends. Section 18G is titled Warranties may not be excluded, so a contract term purporting to sign them away does not hold.

Is internal timber wall cladding carpentry, joinery, or something else?

Schedule 4 settles several of these boundary cases by naming them outright. Internal timber cladding of walls and ceilings is given as an example of joinery, and so are shower screens and prefabricated glass fencing. Wallboards are listed under carpentry, but with plaster boards expressly carved out as dry plastering, which is its own category under clause 13(b)(iv). Floor coverings cut the other way again: Schedule 1 of the Act excludes the installation of an upper layer or wearing surface of a floor that involves no structural change, which takes carpet and floating floors outside residential building work, while floor tiles are expressly not excluded.

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