Parkside is a sought-after inner-south pocket, known for its quiet tree-lined streets and easy access to Fullarton Road, Glen Osmond Road and the city — and I'm out this way regularly.
The housing here is a genuine mix. Older streets nearer the city hold stone villas, inter-war bungalows and renovated period cottages, while the corridors along Unley Road and Glen Osmond Road carry a good number of 1960s-70s brick unit blocks. That split shows up in the work: heritage-era boards and wiring in the villas, and switchboard and power-point work in the units, often for a landlord or a strata property.
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The stone villas and the unit blocks bring a different mix of work:
On Olive Street a customer's bathroom fan had stopped working altogether — an old unit, thick with dust, and they were after something better rather than a like-for-like swap. I put together two options: a straight replacement exhaust fan, or an upgraded unit with a proper heating function, both supplied, installed and with the old unit removed. They went with the upgrade, and I booked it in once the part was confirmed in stock.
On Scott Street I was called out for a circuit breaker that kept tripping. Tracing it back, I found water had been getting into an old weatherproof power point connected to the gas hot water system outside — the seal had failed and let moisture in over time. I replaced the damaged GPO with a proper weatherproof unit, which stopped the nuisance tripping for good.
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Parkside's older stone villas can still carry an original fuse board with no safety-switch protection, and outdoor power points near a hot water system are a common spot for water ingress to cause tripping. If the power's out, a safety switch won't reset, or something smells hot, that's an emergency call — not a wait-till-Monday job.
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Removing the old circuit breakers or fuses and replacing them with individual RCBOs is the standard fix - it's one of the most common jobs I do in Parkside's stone villas and cottages, and it's usually a one-day upgrade.
Yes. Water getting into an outdoor GPO - often near a hot water system or garden tap - is a common cause of a tripping circuit breaker in Parkside. I replace the damaged point with a proper weatherproof one and check nothing else has been affected.
Yes. Parkside has a good number of 1960s-70s unit blocks along those corridors, and I regularly do switchboard and power point work in individual units as well as the older stone villas nearby.
Yes, in a stand-alone villa or townhouse it's usually straightforward. In a unit block it depends on the switchboard and parking arrangement, which I'll check as part of the quote.
Parkside sits among these inner-south suburbs I regularly work:
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