House rewiring
in Hampton East.

Most Hampton East townhouses will never need a rewire, so we say so. The older homes are another story. A post-war weatherboard that has not been touched since the fifties may have rubber or cloth-wrapped cable in the walls, brittle where it bends and crumbling around fittings. We look in the roof, check the board, and test insulation resistance where we can. If the wiring is sound and just under-capacity, targeted upgrades usually do the job. If it is breaking down, a full rewire is the right call, and the sensible time is before you repaint or re-plaster. We stage the job so you know which rooms lose power and when, and we patch access holes as we go. Brick veneer can be harder to fish cable through, so we explain the approach before we start.

What the job involves, warning signs and what's included are on our main house rewires page. For everything else we do locally, see electrician Hampton East.