Licensed Electricians for Mortlake Homes

This whole suburb sits on a small Parramatta River peninsula, and its history is written into the street pattern.

Mortlake began as a working-class village built around the old AGL gasworks, long before the river frontage became anything like fashionable.

Once the gasworks closed, redevelopment from the 1990s onward reshaped most of the peninsula. Townhouses and riverfront unit blocks now sit alongside whatever cottages from the gasworks era survived the change.

Those two housing generations need almost opposite things from an electrician. The old cottages carry decades of wear on wiring nobody's touched since it went in, while the newer townhouses arrived wired to a modern standard from day one.

Renovation is what usually forces the issue in the older stock. Open one wall in a Tennyson Road cottage and it's common to find cabling well past its working life, at which point a partial job becomes a full rewire.

Switchboards follow a similar arc. Fit a kitchen upgrade, ducted cooling or an EV circuit to a gasworks-era supply and a straight swap is rarely enough; the whole board usually needs replacing before anything new goes on.

Hilly Street runs down toward Wangal Reserve at the river's edge, a stretch where some of the oldest surviving housing sits closest to the water.

Whichever generation of house we're in, the job runs to AS/NZS 3000, a number goes down on paper before anything's touched, and a Certificate of Compliance follows once it's tested.

River frontage adds its own wrinkle here that inland suburbs don't deal with. Salt-laden air off the water speeds up corrosion on anything exposed, which matters when we're choosing fittings and enclosures for outdoor work.

We factor that into what goes on a riverfront property from the start, rather than fitting standard gear and dealing with an early failure later.

Redevelopment has also pushed the local demographic somewhat younger and more affluent than the peninsula's gasworks-village history suggests. Professional households buying into the newer stock are the ones most often adding an EV circuit or upgrading a kitchen's power supply soon after settling in.

Older residents in the surviving cottages tend to call for a different reason: a switchboard that's simply never been touched since the house was built, quietly ageing until a fault or a renovation forces the issue.

On top of the rewiring and switchboard picture above, two other patterns come up often here.

Both get sorted quickly once we've had a look, and neither one needs a full renovation as the excuse to fix it.

An EV circuit added to existing supply is usually a same-visit job if the switchboard already has capacity. Where it doesn't, that becomes clear at quote stage, not partway through the install.

Call (02) 9134 9026 to lock in a time that suits.

We arrive when we said we would, or call ahead the moment that changes.

A fixed quote goes down in writing before any work begins, covering labour, materials and testing.

The work itself follows AS/NZS 3000, with Clipsal and Hager fittings rather than the cheapest thing on a shelf.

A Certificate of Compliance closes out the job, rubbish gone and the space handed back the way it should be.

Corrosion-prone riverfront jobs follow those exact steps too, just with fittings chosen to handle the salt air.

Nothing about that changes for a small job. Whether it's one outdoor power point or the whole board, the same quote, fittings decision and sign-off process applies.