Best bricklayers in Joondalup & the Northern Suburbs (2026)
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These are the best-reviewed bricklayers working Joondalup and Perth’s northern corridor: Joondalup itself with Edgewater, Heathridge and Craigie, the coastal run through Currambine, Kinross, Clarkson, Butler and Alkimos, and the Wanneroo side taking in Wangara, Landsdale, Darch, Madeley, Carramar, Tapping and Banksia Grove. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. Getting to four names took more cutting than you’d expect: this search is padded with commercial construction firms that don’t do residential brickwork, service-area listings that sit on a map point in another suburb entirely with no address to check, operators whose websites have quietly died, and a parade of one-review and no-review listings. Every bricklayer below has a verifiable base in the corridor, a live web presence or street address we could confirm, and a review record of real brickwork: fences, feature walls, repairs, repointing and paving. Below the list you’ll find what bricklaying actually costs in Perth in 2026, the permit thresholds that catch people out on front walls, the red flags worth walking away from, and answers to the questions we’d ask before hiring.
Featured bricklayers
These spots are for bricklayers working Joondalup, Wanneroo and the northern corridor who want to stand out on this page. None are taken yet, so the full review-ranked list is right below. That ranking is earned off Google reviews and never for sale. Are you a bricklayer in the northern suburbs? Featured spots start at $50 a year.
Get a Featured spot ▸How we ranked these
- Google reviews do the ranking. We start with every operator’s live Google star rating and the number of reviews behind it, pulled fresh from Google Maps across Joondalup, Wanneroo, Clarkson, Butler and the surrounding suburbs.
- Volume matters as much as the score. We weight each rating by its review count, so four perfect 5.0 scores don’t tie: the depth of the record behind each one decides the order. The top spot carries 88 reviews; the fourth carries 5. Read the entries as well as the order, because the four offer genuinely different kinds of brickwork.
- Verified locally, or cut. Bricklayer searches here return operators from Osborne Park, Yokine, Forrestfield and the Swan Valley alongside genuine locals, plus service-area listings whose map point is a generic Perth coordinate shared by several unrelated businesses. We checked map coordinates, street addresses and each operator’s own website rather than trusting names. Two well-reviewed listings were cut purely because there was no way to verify where they actually operate from.
- Right trade, right customer. This page is for residential brickwork: fences and front walls, feature brickwork, repairs, repointing, paving and additions. We cut a large commercial precast and modular construction company that a bricklaying search returns but a homeowner can’t hire, and businesses whose core trade is something else entirely.
- Paid spots are labelled, and never jump the queue. When a business pays for a “Featured” spot it’s marked as such. The review-based order below does not change to favour a payer. Right now, no spots are sold.
Slick Brick Constructions
A perfect 5.0 across 88 reviews, the deepest bricklaying review record anywhere in the northern corridor. Owen and his team run the business from Barridale Drive in Darch, and the work covers the full residential brickwork menu: fences, planter boxes, letterboxes, fireplaces and feature walls, plus the trickier structural jobs like cutting a clean opening through an existing brick wall, which is exactly the job a recent commercial client praised at length for dust control, communication and craftsmanship. Reviewers keep coming back to the same three things: quick, tidy and genuinely skilled. One note for the map-readers: their main Google listing is a service-area listing without a pinned address, but their second, street-addressed listing in Darch and their own website confirm where they’re based, and we verified both. If you need anything done with bricks in the northern suburbs, this is the record to beat.
View listing & contact ▸FrontWalls
A perfect 5.0 across 17 reviews for a specialist who does one thing and does it properly: front walls and brick fencing, from the Joondalup side of the corridor. What separates Michael from a general bricklaying crew is the paperwork end of the job. Front walls are the one piece of residential brickwork most likely to need council involvement, and his reviews specifically praise him for doing the drawings, navigating council approval requirements and then building the wall to a high standard, all in one engagement. Clients describe him as efficient, neat and no-fuss, with problems resolved on the spot. If your job is a boundary wall, a front fence or piers at the driveway, and you’d rather not learn your council’s fencing local law yourself, this is the specialist pick on the page.
View listing & contact ▸Done Right Property Maintenance
A perfect 5.0 across 12 reviews for Shawn Olsen, a masonry all-rounder based in Joondalup with more than thirty years in the Perth building industry, including stints in commercial construction and housing renovations. The service list is the widest of anyone on this page: bricklaying, stone cladding, brick paving and retaining walls, which makes him the practical call when a job crosses trades, like the reviewed project that involved pulling up old paving, shifting limestone boulders and putting the whole area back together. Reviews describe fast quotes, jobs done within the week, and repeat, long-term clients, and his own guarantee is blunt: if you’re not happy, he’s on the job until you are. For paving repairs after a burst pipe, a limestone wall, or brickwork as part of a bigger backyard fix, this is the versatile pick.
View listing & contact ▸Halls Construction
A perfect 5.0 across 5 reviews for Kevin’s repair-side specialty, run from Butler at the top of the corridor. Halls Construction doesn’t build your wall; it fixes the one you have. The work is brick and limestone repairs, repointing, and the structural job most homeowners don’t know the name of until they need it: replacing rusted or cracked window and door lintels before the brickwork above them fails, with hot-dipped galvanised steel going in as the replacement. Cracked face bricks get swapped with the closest match to your existing brick and mortar colour, a detail his testimonials repeatedly single out, along with clear communication and tidy work, from verge walls flattened by cars to fence piers clipped by removalists. The review base is the smallest on the page, which the weighting fully accounts for, and his testimonials stretch from Two Rocks to Mandurah. For repairs rather than new builds, start here.
View listing & contact ▸Only four made this page, and that’s deliberate. The most instructive cuts were two well-reviewed brickwork listings whose map point turned out to be a generic Perth coordinate shared by several unrelated businesses, with no street address, so there was no way to verify they operate anywhere near the northern suburbs; if either publishes a verifiable base, they’re welcome back. A 4.9-rated construction group in Wangara turned out to be a commercial precast and modular builder, not a bricklayer a homeowner can hire. One local outfit sat right on our 4.3 rating floor with a website that no longer loads, and another fell below the floor outright. Strong operators from Osborne Park, Yokine, Noranda and Forrestfield showed up in the search too, as metro-wide listings always do, and they belong on their own corridors’ pages, not this one. The rest were one-review and no-review listings. Four verified locals beats twenty padded ones.
What bricklaying actually costs in Perth (2026)
Perth bricklayers price by the hour, by the thousand bricks, or by the square metre depending on the job, and most quote labour only, with bricks and mortar supplied separately. The two numbers that swing a quote hardest are what’s included (a labour-only rate looks cheaper than a supply-and-lay price until you add $600 to $2,000 per thousand bricks for the bricks themselves) and height and access (anything above single-storey needs scaffolding, taller walls need engineering, and easy pallet access to the work area genuinely changes the price). These are indicative Perth-metro ranges from published 2026 pricing, a guide rather than a quote, so confirm inclusions and GST on the written quote.
| Job | Typical range | What pushes it up |
|---|---|---|
| Bricklaying labour (hourly) | $47-$105/hr | Complex patterns, feature bricks, tight sites; most jobs average around $68/hr |
| Laying per 1,000 bricks (labour only) | $945-$1,900 | Brick type, pattern, height; a crew lays roughly 400-600 bricks a day |
| Standard brickwork per m² | $58-$135 | Single vs double skin (roughly 50 vs 100 bricks per m²), footings, site prep |
| Garden or feature wall per m² | $84-$230 | Curves, piers, capping, face bricks, complex bonds |
| Brick repointing per m² | $32-$94 | Mortar condition, colour matching, heritage work |
| Brick repairs (per brick) | $16-$63 | Matching aged bricks, structural cracks, lintel involvement |
| Brick letterbox (supply & lay) | $420-$1,575 | Size, render or face finish, paper/parcel inserts |
| Bricks (materials, per 1,000) | $600-$2,000 | Standard clay vs face and feature bricks; usually quoted separately |
Two local notes. First, the northern corridor splits by era in a way that matters for repairs: the older suburbs on the Joondalup side, Craigie, Heathridge, Edgewater and early Wanneroo, are now old enough that fence piers, mortar joints and window lintels from the 1980s and 90s are coming due, and matching thirty-year-old bricks is a skill worth paying for, while the newer estates through Butler, Alkimos, Banksia Grove and Tapping are mostly still under builder-era brickwork. Second, front walls are where budgets surprise people: most Perth councils require a permit for brick walls over 1.2 to 1.8 metres, structural and retaining work needs engineering, and a wall that needs drawings, certification and a permit can carry $1,500 to $4,000 in paperwork before a brick is laid. Ask whoever quotes you to be explicit about who handles that.
Don’t get ripped off: red flags
- A quote that doesn’t say whether bricks are included. Most bricklayers quote labour only, and that’s fine, but a quote that leaves it ambiguous lets the “extras” arrive after you’ve committed. Get labour, bricks, mortar, sand and site clean-up itemised.
- No mention of footings. A brick wall is only as good as what it sits on. If a fence or wall quote doesn’t say who’s doing the footings and to what depth, the cheap price probably assumes someone else is.
- Silence on permits for a tall front wall. Brick walls over roughly 1.2 to 1.8 metres need council approval in most Perth councils, and unpermitted walls can mean fines or demolition orders. A pro either handles the approval or tells you plainly that you need it, before the job starts.
- Big cash deposit up front. For home building work over $7,500 in WA, the law caps deposits at 6.5 per cent. Anyone wanting a third of the money in cash before a brick is laid is financing something, and it isn’t your wall.
- No talk of matching on repair work. Repairs live or die on matching brick and mortar colour to what’s already there. A repairer who doesn’t raise matching before quoting is planning to leave you a patch you’ll stare at for years.
Before you hire: quick checklist
- Scope in writing. Wall height, length, brick type, footings, single or double skin, and who supplies materials, each spelled out.
- Permit question answered. For front walls and anything retaining soil, confirm in writing whether council approval or engineering is needed and who is obtaining it.
- Builder registration for big jobs. Bricklaying itself isn’t a licensed trade in WA, but once a job exceeds $20,000 it must be done by or through a registered building contractor. Check the registration on big projects.
- Insurance. A current public liability certificate of currency, and ask about workers’ compensation if a crew is coming.
- References for the same kind of work. Fences, feature work and repairs are different skills. Ask to see a recent job like yours, in person if it’s a big wall.
Frequently asked
How did you rank these bricklayers?
By their live Google star rating weighted by the number of reviews behind it, pulled from Google Maps across Joondalup, Wanneroo, Clarkson, Butler and the surrounding suburbs. Every listing was verified by map coordinates, street address and its own website where one exists. All four that passed hold perfect 5.0 scores, so the depth of each review record decides the order. Commercial construction firms, listings with no verifiable locality, operators based in other corridors and businesses below our 4.3 rating floor were cut regardless of how prominent they look in search.
Do bricklayers need a licence in WA?
No. Unlike electricians or plumbers, bricklaying itself is not a licensed trade in Western Australia, which is exactly why reviews and verifiable history matter so much when choosing one. The legal line that does exist: any home building work over $20,000 must be carried out by or through a registered building contractor, and contracts between $7,500 and $500,000 fall under WA’s home building contracts law, which caps deposits at 6.5 per cent. For a straightforward fence or repair job under those thresholds, you’re relying on the bricklayer’s record, insurance and workmanship, not a licence number.
How much does bricklaying cost per 1,000 bricks in Perth?
In 2026, Perth bricklaying labour runs $945 to $1,900 per thousand bricks laid, with the bricks themselves costing another $600 to $2,000 per thousand depending on style. A skilled bricklayer lays roughly 400 to 600 standard bricks a day, and a single-skin wall uses about 50 bricks per square metre, double that for double-brick. A typical 10-metre front fence lands somewhere between one and a half and two thousand bricks, which is why most fence quotes come in as a fixed price rather than a rate.
Do I need council approval for a brick front wall?
Quite possibly. Most Perth councils require a permit for walls above somewhere between 1.2 and 1.8 metres, the exact threshold and rules vary by council and by whether the wall is on a street boundary, and anything retaining soil or supporting structure needs engineering as well. The safest sequence is to confirm your council’s rule before finalising the design, because an unapproved wall can attract fines or a demolition order. One of the operators on this page specialises in exactly this paperwork, drawings and approvals included.
Why are there only four on this list?
Because that’s how many passed every check: a Google rating of at least 4.3 with a genuine review history, a verifiable base in the northern corridor, and residential brickwork as the actual trade. This search returns commercial builders, service-area listings sitting on a generic map point with no address, operators from the other side of the city, and a long tail of one-review and no-review listings. Rather than pad the page, we listed the four that qualify. As more northern-suburbs bricklayers build a review history, the list grows.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 23 August 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.