Bradley Keirl, 24, pleaded guilty at the Ballarat Magistrates' Court on Monday to 23 charges.

Court documents reveal Keirl stole a generator and power tools during a burglary at a Smythes Creek home on November 27 and advertised the items on Facebook Marketplace the next day.

The victim found the posts and organised to meet with Keirl, police were called and he was arrested.

Police found a stolen car parked outside Keirl's Sebastopol home.

On November 23 he smashed a front window and entered a Haddon home, forced open a shed and stole a kayak and a fridge worth $4500.

Between the 15th and 17th of December he entered a Glen Park home through a front sliding window and ransacked the home.

CCTV footage shows Keirl filling a trolley with more than $2000 worth of items in Bunnings Warrnambool, driving his car into the trade section of the store, and filling it with items on November 1.

Keirl drove his car at an open side door towards the exit of the store, but misjudged the width and crashed into a steel bollard in front of the door.

The bollard bent and crashed through the glass door and Keirl drove through a metal boom gate to the right of the door, causing an estimated $5000 worth of damage.

He later refused to stop on police direction and sped away.

Keirl is also charged with stealing a 10-year-old boy's backpack from the Mount Prospect Tennis Club and stealing a $1000 saw from Total Tools in Geelong.

He is charged with a number of petrol drive offs and other thefts.

In March he stole a kayak off the roof of a car in Haddon.

Keirl and a co-accused forced open a garage side door of Brown Hill property in December 2019 but left after being blocked by a shelving unit in front of the door.

Keirl had worked as a tiler at the property in 2018 and had communicated with the owner by Facebook and saw the owner was away on holiday at the time from his Facebook feed.

Defence lawyer Scott Belcher said Keirl had a criminal history that included a poor compliance with community corrections orders.

"It would appear a jail term is the only appropriate disposition to the court," he said.

"But my client has asked for another chance on a community corrections order."

Mr Belcher said Keirl was a young offender at 24 and asked the court to consider an appropriate length of jail time to give him a good chance upon release.

The court heard Keirl had a four-month-old son and had good family support but masked his mental health issues with the use of illicit drugs.

Magistrate Jonathan Klestadt said Keirl's criminal history dated back to 2014.

"Since then you have failed to take advantage of any opportunity given to you and you have continued to engage in dishonest, reckless and potentially extremely dangerous behaviour," he said.

"You have been afforded three opportunities to engage with corrections on community corrections orders and have demonstrated you are not yet ready to engage fully with services to deal with your problems."

Mr Klestadt noted Keirl's 'crime spree' commenced within five months of his release from custody.

"You have put other people at risk as a result of your behaviour," he said.

"This offending is serious and comes on top of other serious offending."

Keirl was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and has already served 15 days. He was disqualified from driving for 12 months.

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