Toorak's housing stock is older and heavier than most of Melbourne. Double brick, solid plaster, pressed metal ceilings and floors that were never meant to come up. A lot of the grand homes between Orrong Road and St Georges Road have been rewired in stages over decades, which means you can find old rubber, TPS and modern cable all feeding the same board. Before we quote a rewire we trace what's there, mark the circuits, and work out which runs can be reused so we cut into as little of the house as possible.
Then there's the apartment side. Toorak Road and the streets running off it hold a lot of 1930s brick flats and newer boutique blocks, and the questions there are different — where the meter sits, whether the common property board has any spare capacity, and what your body corporate will and won't approve. We've done enough of these to know what a strata manager needs to see in writing before an installation gets signed off, and we'll put that together rather than leaving you to chase it yourself.
Access is the other Toorak reality. Narrow driveways, gated entries, permit parking on the residential streets and very little kerb space near the shops. We plan for it — access confirmed before the day, everything brought in one trip, and no van left blocking your neighbours for six hours. Heritage overlay applies to plenty of Toorak, so where an install affects the front of the property we'll tell you upfront whether Stonnington is likely to want a say before you spend money on it.