Electrician Putney

Putney used to carry the nickname Struggle Town, back when it was one of the more affordable pockets on this stretch of river.

That history left a mark that's unusual for Sydney in 2026: more than 83 per cent of the suburb is still separate houses, not units.

Most areas this close to the water have been carved up into apartments by now. This suburb mostly hasn't.

What that means for us is straightforward. A huge share of the jobs we quote are inside houses that have sat, largely unaltered, since the postwar decades.

Long-term owners are now renovating in numbers, upgrading kitchens, adding a second storey, converting a garage. Almost none of that work can proceed without touching the electrics.

Original wiring behind a wall that's stood since the 1960s rarely meets a modern renovation halfway. It gets replaced, not patched around.

We treat a rewire here differently to a quick job elsewhere, because the wiring we're pulling out is often original, and there's usually more of it than the homeowner expects.

Around Morrison Road and Frances Road, this pattern shows up almost block by block: a solid brick house, a renovation underway, wiring that hasn't been touched since it went in.

It's a different job to what we see in the apartment-heavy suburbs nearby. There's no shared riser or building manager to coordinate with, just one house, one owner, and a board that's been quietly doing its job for sixty-odd years.

Once the rewire is done, everything downstream gets easier: new circuits, safety switches on every one, a board sized properly for the house as it is now, not as it was in 1965.

There's a generational pattern behind a lot of this work, too. Many of these houses have had one owner, or one family, for decades.

That kind of tenure means the wiring genuinely hasn't been touched, not just cosmetically old but functionally original. It also means the first time anyone properly inspects the switchboard is often the first time it's been opened since installation.

The same few problems keep turning up once we're actually inside these older houses.

None of these are emergencies by themselves. They tend to surface the moment a renovation starts, which is exactly when they're cheapest to fix.

We're increasingly asked to inspect a switchboard before a renovation even begins, rather than after a builder's already opened up a wall. It gives everyone a clearer picture of the real scope, and it avoids a mid-project surprise that stalls the whole job.

Booking starts with a conversation, not a form: tell us what's going on, we ask what we need to, and we lock in a time.

For a straightforward job, one visit usually covers inspection, quote and the work itself.

A full rewire is different. We scope the house first, walk you through what we've found, then send a fixed written quote before touching a single wire.

Nothing proceeds without your sign-off on that number, and nothing changes afterward without a conversation first.

That matters more on an older house here than most jobs.

Behind one wall you might find textbook wiring; behind the next, three different eras of it layered on top of each other. We'd rather flag that honestly than guess.

The finished job always comes with the paperwork proving it was done to standard: certification for anything notifiable, properly lodged, plus photos of the work.

On a rewire specifically, we walk the house with you once it's done, pointing out where new circuits sit and what each one covers, so you're not guessing at your own switchboard six months later.