The streets between Glenferrie Road and Kooyong Road hold some of Melbourne's better preserved Victorian and Edwardian housing, and the electrical history in those houses is layered. The original installation is long gone, then a 1950s rewire in rubber cable, a 1980s kitchen circuit, then downlights added when someone opened up the rear. We start by mapping what is live and what is abandoned, because half the cost of a Malvern rewire is deciding what can stay rather than pulling the lot out.
Along Dandenong Road and the side streets off High Street there is a heavy concentration of interwar and post-war flats. The recurring issue is capacity — a block wired for a stove and a couple of lights now runs air conditioners, dishwashers and home offices. Meter cupboards are cramped, tails are undersized, and the main switch is often original. We work with owners corporations on staged upgrades so a block gets fixed properly without every unit losing power on the same day.
The Glenferrie Road and Wattletree Road strips give us the commercial side. Cafes, clinics, salons and specialist retail, mostly in older buildings with a shopfront that has been fitted out four or five times over. Old cable gets abandoned in ceilings, and new tenants inherit circuits nobody has labelled since the eighties. Before a fit-out we test and identify the existing supply, so you are not paying for a design the switchboard cannot actually feed. That one test usually saves more than it costs on a strip full of older buildings.