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French polishing across Southbank

French polishing in Southbank

Keep the finish, close the defect

Melbourne CBD & Docklands

A documented scope, delivered as one team

Ripping out completed joinery in a finished apartment is the most expensive way to close a defect. M&M Services Group provides French polishing and interior make-good across Southbank and the Melbourne CBD & Docklands: veneer and polyurethane finishes restored on site and colour-matched panel by panel, with the same crew handling chipped stone, tile rectification, scratched bathtubs, mirrors, chrome and floorboards. One trade takes the whole interior list.

Behind the finish sits 25 years in the trade and a one-team delivery model — a single subcontract from inspection through to sign-off, with time-stamped images of the work available on OneDrive for the handover file. Day and night shifts suit hotels and residential towers around Southbank, where rooms and apartments are released in narrow windows and the finish has to be right the first time.

The local market

Working in Southbank

Southbank packs Melbourne's densest cluster of residential high-rise into a narrow strip between the Yarra and City Road, including Eureka Tower, Australia 108 and the Melbourne Square precinct. The Crown complex, Southgate and the Melbourne Arts Precinct — where NGV Contemporary is under construction — anchor the riverfront. Heavily glazed towers over podium retail sustain continuous demand for facade access, glazing rectification and high-level finishing.

The same crews also cover Melbourne CBD, South Wharf, South Melbourne, St Kilda Road, Docklands and the wider Melbourne CBD & Docklands.

What we do

The scope this page covers

  • Veneer and polyurethane joinery finishes, colour-matched on site
  • Complete kitchen resprays and water-damaged joinery restoration
  • Chipped stone restoration and tile rectification
  • Scratched bathtub, sink, mirror and chrome rectification
  • Floorboard repairs — scratches, water damage, resealing, squeaky or uneven boards

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French polishing around Southbank

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Questions

What builders ask us

Yes — French polishing and the wider interior make-good scope are delivered across Southbank and the surrounding region. Around 20% of the team is based in Melbourne, so Southbank packages are resourced locally, with Sydney crews behind them when a programme needs surge labour. Defect-stage joinery, stone, tile and floorboard work is carried by the one crew, so the whole interior list closes together.

Yes — on-site colour-matching is central to how we work. Each panel is matched in place before any broader application, so repaired joinery reads consistently against the surrounding finish. Where damage is extensive, complete kitchen resprays and rebuilt carcasses and end panels are part of the same capability.

Both routes are open. Builders often include interior make-good as a package in defect-stage tenders and RFQs, sometimes alongside our facade and glass scopes; contract administrators also engage us directly from a defect list. Send the list with locations and photographs and we will return a priced response.

The work is photographed with time-stamped images as it proceeds, and records are accessible to your team on OneDrive at any time. Each defect item carries its own before-and-after evidence, so the register closes cleanly and the documentation is ready when practical completion or DLP review comes around.

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