Licensed Electricians for Annandale Homes

Annandale grew from the 1880s on the old Johnston estate, and its streets still wear that Victorian and Federation character.

The stock runs from modest workers' cottages and terraces to the grand 'witches' houses' with their steep gables, and much of it sits under heritage conservation controls.

That heritage is lovely to live in and demanding to wire. These homes were built for gaslight and a handful of circuits, not for a modern kitchen, a home office and a car in the driveway.

Start at the switchboard. A good share of these cottages still run an original ceramic-fuse board that predates circuit breakers entirely.

Those boards nuisance-trip and carry no safety switch, so modernising the board is where we usually begin. It brings in an RCD and the capacity the house was never given.

Then there is the renovation. This is a suburb that renovates constantly, and lifting the floors on a cottage off Johnston Street or Trafalgar Street tends to reveal cabling well past its prime.

That is the moment for a heritage rewire, full or staged, so the wiring behind those beautiful walls is as sound as the facade.

The 'witches' houses' and larger Federation homes along Johnston Street are a different job to a two-room worker's cottage.

Taller ceilings mean longer cable drops and trickier access above the plaster, and the stone and rendered walls do not give up their runs easily.

Original lighting in these homes was sparse, so owners often want more of it done sympathetically: picture lights, dimmable downlights that suit period rooms, and outdoor fittings that respect the streetscape.

We plan those runs to keep chasing and patching to a minimum, because the finishes in a heritage home are half the reason people love them.

And where a grand old house is being brought back to life, we fold the electrical work into the wider restoration so nothing has to be reopened later.

That means sequencing the rough-in with the builder and the plasterer. The wiring is right before the walls and cornices go back on, and the finished rooms stay untouched.

With Camperdown as our home turf, this suburb is only a short drive up the road, so our vans pass through here as a matter of course. A booking nearby is nothing out of the ordinary.

A real person takes your call, and a fixed written price is agreed before anything is touched. New customers save $50 on that first visit.

We share the same Inner West Council area, we know the heritage rules that shape this stock, and a lifetime workmanship guarantee stands behind the lot.