At about 950 people per square kilometre, Belgrave has properties with sheds, studios and outdoor areas that all want power and rarely have enough of it. At about 200 metres, Belgrave is high and treed, and bushfire-prone designations can apply, which changes how some work is specified.
At roughly 36 kilometres out, Belgrave has bigger floor plans, which means longer runs and more points on a typical job list. Belgrave is in Yarra Ranges. Everyday electrical work needs nothing from the council. It needs a licensed electrician, correct protection and a Certificate of Electrical Safety, and that is what you get from us.
A job in Belgrave usually sits alongside something we already have booked in Belgrave Heights or Belgrave South that week. Postcode 3160, about 4.1 square kilometres, 3894 residents at the 2021 census: that is the shape of Belgrave inside Yarra Ranges.
Some background on the place: Though originally the area was known as "Monbulk" for the reservoir that lay near by, the town wasn't known as Belgrave until December 1904 when the railway station was renamed, and another suggested name for the town at that stage was Glassford. Build era is the single best guide to what we will find at the board. Our coverage around Belgrave takes in Belgrave Heights, Belgrave South, Kallista and Selby, which is why a job here rarely waits long for a slot.
Belgrave is around 8.3 kilometres south-east of our workshop in Boronia, close enough that the van is stocked for the job before it leaves. Belgrave is served by Belgrave railway station. Streets nearest the line are generally the ones with the oldest switchboards.
Something else that shows up in the housing here: === Puffing Billy Railway ===
Belgrave's most notable attraction is the heritage narrow gauge, steam-operated Puffing Billy Railway, which was reopened in 1962—after four years of restoration by volunteers—and travels through 24 kilometres (15 mi) of cool temperate rainforest, semi-urban development and rural farmland to Gembrook.