With roughly 1957 residents per square kilometre, Ferntree Gully has boards that have been added to over decades, and the additions are where the heat shows. Ferntree Gully is about 150 metres above sea level, with split-level homes where a sub-board on a lower level is often the one nobody has looked at.
Being around 30 kilometres from the city, Ferntree Gully has modern enclosures that hide heat well, which is why imaging rather than inspection is the right tool. Ferntree Gully is in Knox. A thermal survey needs no council permit. What it needs is licensed work, proper method and a report you can act on.
A job in Ferntree Gully usually sits alongside something we already have booked in Boronia or Knoxfield that week. Ferntree Gully spans roughly 14 square kilometres of Knox. Postcode 3156, and 27398 people at the 2021 census.
Some background on the place: The area became more accessible to visitors with the arrival of a railway line extension from Ringwood, completed in 1889. Build era predicts board vintage, and board vintage predicts findings. The suburbs we work alongside Ferntree Gully are Boronia, Knoxfield, Lysterfield and Rowville, and all of them are quoted on the same basis.
We are based in Boronia, about 2.7 kilometres south of Ferntree Gully. Close enough that the person who quotes the job is the person who comes back to do it. Another piece of background on the suburb: Officially opened on 17 October 1959 as the Mountain Gate Estate, it was marketed as the "town of a thousand homes" incorporating a modern car-oriented shopping centre and public parkland.
And on the history that shaped the streets: == Transport ==
Ferntree Gully has a railway station located on Station Street, near the shopping district, which was previously known as Lower Ferntree Gully, followed by Fern Tree Gully, having been changed to the latter on 29 February 1972.