South Turramurra sits quietly on Sydney’s Upper North Shore, tucked away from the main roads and largely unchanged in character over the past several decades. Separate houses make up 99% of all dwellings in the suburb, with virtually no apartments or units here at all, just established family homes set back from tree-lined streets on generous blocks. Most of these homes were built between the 1960s and the 1980s, and 90.3% of them are owner-occupied, which means the people living in them are almost universally the people who own them, many of whom have been there for a long time.
The typical South Turramurra household is a professional family, with the predominant age group sitting at 40 to 49 and mortgage repayments commonly exceeding $4,000 per month. These are homeowners who take their properties seriously and are not looking for the cheapest way to get something ticked off a list. The suburb sits within one of the greenest and most established residential pockets on the Upper North Shore, with mature gardens, large trees and a quiet streetscape that residents are clearly invested in maintaining. With that character comes its own kinds of electrical work, which GlobileNet handles across the suburb. Licensed, insured and easy to deal with.
A significant number of South Turramurra’s homes have never had their electrical systems properly updated since they were built. Homes over 25 years old that have not had a switchboard upgrade may still be running ceramic fuses, which is a system that cannot meet the electrical demands of modern households and poses a genuine fire risk under even moderate load. In a suburb where 1960s and 1970s homes are the norm and long-term owners have simply never needed to look at the board, this is more common than most people realise. Complete rewiring is also a core job in the area for older family homes where the wiring behind the walls has deteriorated to a point where it can no longer be safely patched. We come out, take a proper look at what is there and work through what needs to be addressed. All work is done to the AS/NZS 3000 Wiring Rules so you know it is done right.
