Electrician Prahran

Prahran is tight. Small lots, narrow frontages, laneways at the rear and a dense retail spine running through the middle of it. The recurring theme in the electrical work here is lack of physical space, not lack of capacity.

Single-fronted terraces

A single-fronted Victorian terrace gives you a frontage of a few metres, no side access and a meter position that was chosen when the installation had three circuits. Fitting a modern board with circuit breakers, residual current devices and room to grow into that space is the actual challenge, and it is usually solved by relocating the board rather than by squeezing.

Shop-top dwellings

Above the shops on Chapel Street, Greville Street and Commercial Road there are flats that share a building, and frequently a supply, with the tenancy below. When a new operator fits out the ground floor, the flat above can start behaving differently. If your trouble began around the time the shop downstairs changed hands, that is the first thing to check, and it is not a fault inside your flat.

Rear laneway garages and studios

Many Prahran properties have a garage or studio opening onto a rear lane, fed by a submain run across the block years ago. Those runs are old, often undersized, and sometimes not protected to current standards. If the studio has become a workspace rather than storage, the supply to it deserves a look.

Hospitality on Chapel and Greville

The kitchens and bars here sit in compact tenancies inside older buildings. The constraint is rarely the design and nearly always the supply the tenancy already has. It is answerable in a short visit before a lease is signed, and expensive to answer afterwards.

Prahran Market and the food precinct

Food premises bring refrigeration, exhaust and wash-down areas, which means real loads and real residual current device requirements. Testing to prove a safety switch trips within the required time, rather than pressing the button on the front, is the part that matters and the part most often skipped.

Getting to you

About fifteen minutes from Hawthorn East outside peak. Morning faults are normally attended the same day. For genuine emergencies we aim to be on site within two hours, with the phone answered 24 hours a day. Commercial work runs outside trading hours where a shutdown would cost you customers.