Your Local West Footscray Electrician
Licensed, insured and trading since 2007, ten minutes down the road in Newport. Switchboards, rewiring, power points and lighting for West Footscray's bungalows and post-war homes.
Licensed, insured and trading since 2007, ten minutes down the road in Newport. Switchboards, rewiring, power points and lighting for West Footscray's bungalows and post-war homes.
West Footscray is a different suburb electrically from Footscray proper, and it is worth separating the two. Where 3011 is a mix of Victorian cottages, walk-up flats and new apartments, 3012 is overwhelmingly interwar and post-war housing — Californian bungalows and weatherboards through the streets off Barkly Street, and post-war brick veneer running out towards Tottenham.
That is good news and bad news. The good news is construction: timber-framed weatherboard and brick veneer both have wall cavities, which makes them among the cheapest homes in Melbourne to rewire — cable drops down a wall, and most of the work happens in the roof and under the floor rather than in your plaster. The bad news is age. Those original installations are now seventy to a hundred years old, and a great many of them have never been properly updated.
West Footscray is also renovating hard. Every second street has a rear extension going on, and that is where the electrical reality usually surfaces — the board is full, the supply was sized for a much smaller household, and the original circuits have no earth. Recently we did exactly that kind of job here: power points, switches and lighting through a West Footscray home.
The single most useful thing we can tell anyone renovating in West Footscray is to have the wiring and the board looked at at design stage, not after the frame is up. Running new cable through an open wall is a fraction of the cost of threading it through finished plaster, and it is the biggest saving available on this kind of work. It also stops your builder discovering on site that the board cannot carry what the plans assume.
We are in Newport, about ten minutes away, so we are genuinely local rather than nominally local — which matters on jobs that run for days rather than hours. If something unexpected turns up behind a wall, and on houses this age it does, we are not driving across town for a part.
Worth reading before you budget: what a rewire actually costs in Melbourne and whether your switchboard genuinely needs replacing.
We also cover Seddon, Kingsville, Maidstone, Tottenham, Braybrook and Sunshine, plus Footscray, Yarraville, Newport, Spotswood, Williamstown. All Melbourne services →
We are based in Newport, about ten minutes away, and we work in 3012 regularly. Ring 0418 583 097 and we will give you a straight answer about how soon we can be there rather than a promise we cannot keep.
Comparatively, no. The bungalows and post-war homes here are timber-framed with wall cavities, which is the cheapest construction type to rewire — cable drops down a wall instead of being chased into solid brick. Size and whether the walls are open matter more than anything else.
At design stage, before the build starts. Running new cable and consumer mains through an open frame costs a fraction of retrofitting through finished plaster, and it stops your builder finding out on site that the board cannot carry the plans.
It means there is no RCD protection anywhere in the house and no room to add any, so anything new you want to install has nowhere to connect. That is the most common reason West Footscray homes get a switchboard upgrade.
Yes. There is a lot of rented housing in 3012, and Victoria's rental minimum standards require RCD protection plus an electrical safety check every two years. We can quote across multiple properties and deal directly with your agent.
Yes — all of 3012 and the surrounding inner west, including Seddon, Kingsville, Maidstone, Tottenham, Braybrook and Sunshine.
Tell us about your West Footscray project and we'll get back to you quickly with a clear, no-obligation quote.