The tradie’s choice for service and reliable
equipment hire experts
Vermont Hire is the tradie’s and DIY home renovator’s choice for equipment hire in Melbourne’s East, South East, North East and beyond. Local and a family owned small business since 1973, we provide real customer service and hire an extensive range of reliable, quality and affordable equipment to our customers, many of which are sole traders and small businesses just like us. Our 45 years of tool and equipment hire expertise keeps our trades and DIY customers happy and coming back year after year, decade after decade. Hire from us, and get the job done! Better!
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Please feel free to browse our equipment for hire by clicking on a category below, or alternatively search our site by using
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Why Choose Us?
Family owned and run for almost 50 years, our goal is to delight you with our local tool and equipment hire expertise, reliable equipment and great customer service.
Frequently Asked Questions
Please find Vermont Hire’s FAQs below. If you can’t find the answer to your question in this section, please contact us directly by clicking here.
We’re open and hiring from 7am-5pm Monday to Friday, and from 8am to 12:30pm on Saturdays.
We’re at 405 Canterbury Road, Vermont. Entry is via Trade Place.
Hire equipment during the day and return it within 4½ hours – we give you a ½ hour grace period – or hire it overnight between 4 and 5pm and return it the next morning between 7 and 8am for the 4 hour rate.
Initially, you’ll pay the full day rate plus deposit when you take the equipment out. When you return the equipment in under 4 hours or by 8am the next morning on an overnight hire, we’ll refund the deposit and the difference between the daily and 4 hour hire rate.
Not all equipment has a 4 hour rate so check out the equipment item on our website to see if it does.
Hire equipment on a Saturday between 8am and 12:30pm and return it Monday between 7 and 8am for our great value weekend rate. If the equipment’s available the night before, pick it up between 3:30 and 5pm Friday for even greater value.
13 hours of usage is included for metered equipment.
Sure can. Hire the equipment Saturday anytime between 8am and 12:30pm and return it Monday between 7am and 8am for our great value weekend rate. If the equipment’s available, you can even pick it up between 3:30 and 5pm at no extra cost.
13 hours of usage is included for metered equipment.
Our loyalty rewards is made for you. 5% from each hire accrues as loyalty rewards, so long as we can email you your tax invoices, and are applied as a discount to your next hire within 6 months. So the more you hire with us, the more you save. Simple!
Yes we can. We deliver from Monday to Friday all over Melbourne and her surrounds at very competitive prices. Use our delivery rate calculator here to estimate the cost.
All you need to bring is your current, physical Victorian driver’s license for identification, and eftpos, visa, or mastercard for payment. We try to make the hiring process as easy as possible; follow the link here to learn more.
The deposit is usually the daily hire rate rounded up to the nearest ten. So if the daily hire rate is $95, the deposit would be $100 and the total amount payable will be $195. The full deposit is refundable when you bring the equipment back in good working condition.
Deposits are refunded using the same method by which payment was made. So if you paid the hire rate and deposit on a credit card, you will need to bring the same credit card back to be issued the refund. Learn more about the hiring process here.
What Our Customers Have to say
Vermont Hire made things so much easier and less expensive than every other hire company. Great staff, friendly and knowledgeable, advising on exactly what I needed for the job.
Great service! Hired hydraulic splitter and got 25% of by returning it early. Splitter did an awesome job.
Have hired numerous items of equipment & keep going back. Really friendly staff who always go out of their way to ensure I'm comfortable with the equipment before I leave their yard. Always give great advice re equipment for the jobs I need to complete too. If you hire on the weekend, they give you an out of hours number to contact if something goes wrong - never had to use it as their equipment is top notch!
Reliable fit for purpose equipment. The guys at Vermont Hire were extremely helpful in recommending appropriate equipment for my cut and fill project. The equipment was easy to use and saved me a heap of time.
Great help. Very decent prices. Had what I needed
Always great service
These guys are so helpful! Showed me how to use the mulcher and even hooked it up for me. Highly recommended.
We hired the large digger today and I must say the service was fantastic. Before I hired I got time and great advice and then today staff were helpful and very friendly. The digger got the job done and was easy to learn to use. Highly recommend.
Great service and welcoming staff, they know what they're talking about.
I needed a mower for the next day as mine was being repaired and the guys at Vermont Hire arranged one to collect the very next morning. Great customer service and well priced. Will go here now anytime I need to hire something to get the job done. Thanks guys.
