Best bricklayers in Stirling & Scarborough (2026)
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These are the best-reviewed bricklayers and brick restoration specialists working the Stirling and Scarborough corridor: Scarborough, Doubleview and Innaloo behind the beach, Karrinyup, Trigg and North Beach up the coast, and the working spine through Osborne Park, Glendalough, Balcatta, Stirling, Tuart Hill and Yokine, down to the North Perth and Mount Hawthorn edge. They’re ranked on real Google reviews, not on who paid us. This corridor’s search results are a minefield of metro-wide service-area listings pinned to a generic Perth map point, restoration outfits actually based on the other side of the city, an equipment supplier that isn’t a tradesman at all, and the usual tail of one-review and no-review listings. Every operator below has a verifiable base in or beside the corridor, a live web presence or street address we could confirm, and a review record of real brickwork. Three passed, and that’s the honest number. 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 Stirling, Scarborough and the surrounding suburbs 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 Stirling corridor? 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 Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park, Balcatta, Yokine and the surrounding suburbs.
- Volume matters as much as the score. We weight each rating by its review count, so a 4.9 built on hundreds of reviews outranks a perfect 5.0 built on a handful. The top spot here carries 367 reviews, which is the deepest brickwork review record we’ve verified anywhere in Perth. Read the entries as well as the order, because the three offer genuinely different kinds of brickwork.
- Verified locally, or cut. Bricklayer searches here return operators from Darch, Noranda, Forrestfield and Cloverdale 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. A well-reviewed 5.0 listing was cut purely because its only web presence is a Facebook page and there was no way to verify where it operates from.
- Right trade, right customer. This page is for residential brickwork: fences and front walls, repairs, repointing and tuckpointing, feature work and small structural jobs. We cut a brickies’ equipment supplier that a bricklaying search returns but that doesn’t lay bricks, and businesses whose verified base belongs on another corridor’s page.
- 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.
Federation Tuckpointing
A 4.9 across 367 reviews is a record no other brickwork operator in this corridor, or frankly in Perth, comes close to. Federation Tuckpointing has been restoring brickwork across WA for more than 35 years from its base on Gordon Road East in Osborne Park, squarely inside the City of Stirling. The specialty is the restoration end of the trade: tuckpointing and repointing tired mortar, mortar and crack repair, boundary wall repairs, chimney work and replacing failed headers, which is precisely what the older housing stock from Mount Hawthorn through Tuart Hill to Doubleview keeps needing. The reviews are strikingly consistent: quotes explained properly, crews that turn up when promised, meticulous clean-up, and finished work that reviewers describe as transforming the look of the house. This is a larger, structured operation rather than one man and a trowel, with named tradesmen appearing in review after review. If your brickwork problem is cracking, crumbling or century-old mortar, this is where to start.
View listing & contact ▸Brick Up
A 4.8 across 19 reviews for Dean’s outfit in Glendalough, on the Osborne Park side of the corridor. Brick Up covers all aspects of residential and commercial brickwork with over 15 years on the tools: brick fence and wall repairs, crack repairs, piers, rendering and finishing, and heritage and restoration work, all backed by a 10-year structural guarantee, which is not a common thing for a brickwork repairer to put in writing. The reviews read like a referral chain: clients fixing a brick fence, then sending him to their brother’s and their mum’s place, praising honest communication and jobs brought in on time and budget, and one reviewer noting he seamlessly coordinated the plastering that followed the brickwork. Piers, a damaged front fence, or a crack you’ve been watching spread: this is the repair-and-rebuild pick.
View listing & contact ▸Rellim Brickwork
A 4.5 across 22 reviews for Ian Miller, a fencing-and-brickwork specialist working from Kadina Street on the North Perth and Yokine border at the bottom of the corridor. Rellim (read the name backwards) is the new-build counterweight to the two repairers above: where they fix walls, Ian builds them, with over thirty years in the trade and a portfolio built around brick and limestone front fences and walls. Recent reviews describe a complex limestone wall taken on at a fair price, work that came out dead straight and solid, and a tradesman quick to propose solutions when the job threw up surprises. Clients repeatedly land on the same three words: quality, communication, price. His 4.5 reflects a long record with a couple of old bumps in it, and the recent reviews are consistently glowing. If you want a new front fence in brick or limestone rather than a repair, this is the specialist pick on the page.
View listing & contact ▸Only three made this page, and that’s deliberate. The most instructive cut was a 5.0-rated bricklayer whose map point turned out to be a generic Perth coordinate shared with unrelated businesses, whose only web presence is a Facebook page, so there was no way to verify it operates anywhere near this corridor; if it publishes a verifiable base, it’s welcome back. Two excellent restoration specialists that this search returns, one in Noranda with 117 reviews and one in Forrestfield with 184, are verified to other corridors and belong on those pages, as does a 5.0-rated masonry outfit in Cloverdale and the 88-review operator in Darch that leads our northern-suburbs page. A brickies’ sales-and-repairs listing in Balcatta turned out to be an equipment supplier, not a bricklayer. One local operator fell below our 4.3 rating floor, and the rest were one-review and no-review listings. Three verified locals beats a padded ten.
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, this corridor skews old: North Perth, Mount Hawthorn and Tuart Hill carry brick homes approaching or past the century mark, and the post-war and mid-century stock through Innaloo, Doubleview, Scarborough and Balcatta is now at the age where mortar joints, boundary walls and chimneys need attention, which is exactly why two of the three operators on this page specialise in repair and restoration rather than new walls. Repointing and tuckpointing price per square metre, and colour-matching mortar on an older home is a skill worth paying for. 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 paperwork costs 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 and repointing 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. New fences, restoration 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 Stirling, Scarborough, Osborne Park, Balcatta, Yokine and the surrounding suburbs. Every listing was verified by map coordinates, street address and its own website where one exists. The weighting is why a 4.9 with 367 reviews holds the top spot over smaller perfect scores: depth of record counts. Operators verified to other corridors, listings with no verifiable locality, an equipment supplier 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.
What’s the difference between repointing and tuckpointing?
Repointing is the repair job: raking out failed mortar and refilling the joints so the wall is sound and weatherproof again. Tuckpointing is the decorative version of the same trade, common on older Perth homes: the joints are filled in a mortar coloured to match the brick, then a fine contrasting line is “tucked” into the joint to give that crisp, ruled look Federation-era brickwork is known for. In this corridor’s older suburbs the two often happen together, and both price per square metre, typically $32 to $94 in 2026 depending on mortar condition and matching.
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.
Why are there only three 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 or beside the Stirling corridor, and residential brickwork as the actual trade. This search returns metro-wide service-area listings sitting on a generic map point with no address, restoration operators verified to other parts of the city, an equipment supplier, and a long tail of one-review and no-review listings. Rather than pad the page, we listed the three that qualify. As more Stirling-corridor bricklayers build a review history, the list grows.
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Get featured ▸ Claim your free listingRankings based on Google review data collected 24 August 2026. Ratings change, we re-check monthly. Blue Collar Business · Western Australia’s Trades & Home Services Directory.