I'm Marcus, the owner-operator behind Amped Up Electrical Adelaide, and Tusmore is one of the eastern suburbs I get out to regularly.
Tusmore sits well over on Adelaide's eastern side, tucked between Burnside, Toorak Gardens, Linden Park and Glenunga, with Tusmore Park and the Burnside Village shopping strip close by. It's a genuine trip across town from my Vale Park workshop — a solid 20 minutes or so on a clear run, not the five-minute hop I get to the inner north — so I plan Tusmore jobs into the day properly rather than squeezing them in as an afterthought.
It's a leafy, well-established pocket — solid brick homes from the 1920s through to the 1960s on generous blocks, plenty of them renovated or extended over the years, with the occasional newer build going in where an older place has come down. That mix means I see everything from a switchboard that's never been touched since the house was built, sitting behind a freshly renovated kitchen, through to a brand-new build wanting its wiring done properly from scratch.
Whatever end of that spread your Tusmore property sits at, I quote it properly before I start and I'm the one who turns up and does the work.
The work in Tusmore is shaped by its established housing stock and a steady flow of renovations:
I haven't written up a Tusmore job yet, but a few streets over in Linden Park in September I quoted a job that's typical of this pocket of the east: a bathroom fitted with an old combined heat lamp and exhaust fan unit that had had enough. The customer wasn't sure of the exact cutout size for a replacement, just that the existing unit was a standard rectangular style — the kind that's been in plenty of bathrooms across Tusmore, Linden Park and the surrounding streets since the original build.
I booked it in for a weekday morning, checked the cutout size on arrival and matched a new unit to it so there was no cutting into the ceiling sheet to make it fit. It's a job that comes up constantly in this part of the east — an original bathroom fan and heat lamp combo that's gone tired or noisy, wanting a clean swap rather than a full bathroom rewire. The same approach applies whether the call comes from Tusmore, Linden Park or anywhere else along this stretch of established housing.
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Tusmore's older brick homes often still carry a switchboard from the original build, sometimes with no safety switch protecting the circuits at all — a common source of a fault that suddenly needs urgent attention. 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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Tusmore borders several suburbs I work in regularly:
It's common in this part of the east, and it's worth having checked. A board with no safety switches, or one still running old ceramic fuses, doesn't meet current standards, and I can quote an upgrade to a modern RCBO board without disturbing the rest of the house.
Yes — Tusmore is one of the eastern suburbs I get out to regularly, alongside Burnside, Toorak Gardens and Linden Park. It's a proper drive across town from my Vale Park base, so I plan the day around it rather than treating it as a drop-in.
Yes, this comes up regularly on the driveways around here. I run a dedicated circuit from the switchboard with the correct protection, sized to the charger and integrated properly with the rest of the home's electrical load.
Yes. With property turning over fairly often in this pocket of the east, a proper inspection of the switchboard, wiring and safety switches before you commit to buying is a sound idea, and I can give you a clear written report.
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Thanks! Marcus will follow up with you shortly.
— Marcus, Amped Up Electrical
