Mains Upgrades in Canterbury

Canterbury sits at about 2600 people per square kilometre, standard detached housing where the mains run from the street or a pole to a board on the side of the house. Canterbury is roughly 70 metres above sea level. Flat ground means the constraint is distance rather than difficulty.

Canterbury sits 10 kilometres from the city. Older meter panels here often need replacing at the same time as the mains. For Canterbury, the party that matters is the distributor, not Boroondara. We handle the application and the outage booking.

If we are already in Balwyn or Camberwell that day, Canterbury is on the same run and we will usually offer you the same window. The 2021 census recorded 7800 people in Canterbury, an area of roughly 3 square kilometres within Boroondara, postcode 3126.

Worth knowing before we quote: In 1900 Snowden's estate was subdivided and sold off to form what is now Monomeath Avenue and residents such as notable architect Percey Kernot and prominent citizen George Coghill moved in. Service age follows the development era closely. Day to day we are across Canterbury and the streets either side of it: Balwyn, Camberwell, Hawthorn East and Kew East. Same crew, same rates, same certificate at the end.

Our workshop is in Boronia, 18.7 kilometres west of Canterbury. That proximity is the whole reason we can hold a fixed quote rather than pricing in the unknown. On the older parts of the area: == History == The railway station is in many ways responsible for the suburb's existence: before the opening of the railway to the City in 1882, the area was a semi-rural area.

Another piece of background on the suburb: The first subdivision in the area came in 1885, when Michael Logan created the 'Claremont Park Estate' within the area of Canterbury Road, Bryson Street, Prospect Hill Road and Logan Street.