At roughly 3,092 people per square kilometre, Mont Albert properties tend to run fewer circuits carrying more load than the original design allowed for. Mont Albert is about 12 kilometres from the CBD, where period homes carry original features worth protecting and wiring that often is not. We check before we assume.
Because Mont Albert straddles Boroondara and Whitehorse, we check the address rather than assume the council. Balwyn, Box Hill and Mont Albert are close enough together that we treat them as one run rather than three separate jobs.
By the numbers: 4,948 people, roughly 1.6 square kilometres, postcode 3127, inside Boroondara. That is Mont Albert as of the 2021 census. Our working patch either side of Mont Albert takes in Balwyn, Box Hill, Box Hill North and Box Hill South, which is why availability here is usually good.
The run from Boronia to Mont Albert is about 16.1 kilometres west. That is a normal day for us, not a special trip.