Electrician Kew

Kew is a big-block suburb, and block size is what drives the electrical work here. Long driveways, outbuildings, pools and rear studios mean distance between the switchboard and the load, and distance is the enemy of a supply that was sized a long time ago.

Large Victorian and Federation homes

The grand houses through Studley Park and around Sackville Street have usually been extended several times, and each extension tended to add a small board rather than rethink the main one. The result is two or three boards around the property, no schedule for any of them, and nobody certain what feeds what. Documenting that is a half day that repays itself on the next job.

Submains to pools, studios and tennis courts

A run from the house to a pool plant room or a rear studio can easily exceed forty metres on a Kew block. If that cable was sized for the load of the day and the load has since grown, voltage drop follows. Pumps run hot, lights dim when plant cycles, and equipment fails earlier than it should. It reads as an equipment problem and it is a cable problem.

Three-phase is common and often unbalanced

Many larger homes here already have three-phase for air conditioning, pool plant and a workshop. What they frequently do not have is balance. Circuits were added one at a time onto whichever phase had a spare way, so one phase carries most of the house. The symptoms are voltage drop and protection tripping well inside its rating. Measuring it takes an hour and often avoids a supply upgrade nobody needed.

Steep streets and underground supply

The streets falling away toward the Yarra have a mix of overhead and underground supply, and where a property has an underground service the point of attachment and the pit are the first things to establish before any mains work. It changes both the method and the distributor paperwork.

Heritage homes near Kew Junction

Closer to the Junction there are period homes with original fabric worth protecting. Rewiring these is about route planning as much as cable: roof and subfloor rather than chased walls, so cornices and plasterwork survive the job.

Getting to you

We are three kilometres away in Hawthorn East. Kew is a ten to fifteen minute run outside peak, longer if the Junction is backed up. Morning faults are normally attended the same day, and for genuine emergencies we aim to be on site within two hours with the phone answered 24 hours.