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Across Geelong, no distance loading
Corio sits about 9 km north of Geelong on the northern shore of Corio Bay, running from the refinery west into the residential streets. We come up through Geelong from Ocean Grove. It is further than most of our work and it still carries no distance loading.
We cover the whole of 3214, and Norlane, North Shore, Lovely Banks and the rest of Geelong with it.
No call out fee, a fixed price agreed before anything starts, and a lifetime workmanship warranty. REC 346464.
What can we help with?
From an original board in an estate house to a full rewire. Here is what we do most in Corio.
Why Corio locals choose us
A large part of Corio was built to a handful of standard plans over about twenty years. When houses repeat, so do their faults, and that makes for a faster and more certain diagnosis than a street where every house is different.
Registered electrical contractor REC 346464. Whoever turns up is licensed and working to the same standard.
On every job, no exceptions
We come out, look at it and price it. That visit costs you nothing.
One number, agreed before anything begins, GST stated. It does not move.
If our work is not right we come back and put it right at no charge. No expiry.
Got questions? We have answers
Yes. We come up through Geelong from Ocean Grove. It is further than most of our work and it still carries no distance loading. There is no call out fee and no distance loading.
All of it, the whole 3214 postcode, and the neighbouring towns with it. Across the estates and the older streets alike, and none of it far enough out to be worth charging you extra for.
We come up through Geelong from Ocean Grove. It is further than most of our work and it still carries no distance loading. We do not promise a set response time, but you get a straight answer on the phone and a time on the day rather than an all day window.
Yes, and it is unusual. From the late 1950s the Housing Commission built five estates in Corio totalling around 2,500 houses over roughly twenty years. That means a large part of the suburb went up in a narrow window to repeated standard plans. The practical upshot is that houses here tend to share their problems: if one board of a given type is at the end of its life, its neighbours often are too. It also means we frequently know what we are looking at before we open it.
Complementary services
Norlane, North Shore, Lovely Banks, Moorabool, Bell Post Hill, Hamlyn Heights, North Geelong, Rippleside, Geelong and Geelong West. See the full service area.
Corio was first subdivided at Cowies Creek in the early 1850s in anticipation of port development, and by the mid-1860s it was a township of around five hundred people. It stayed that way for a long time. The population was 857 in 1947.
Industry changed it. Ford was in full production at its plant on Melbourne Road by 1926 and employed over five thousand people by 1953, making it Geelong's largest employer, and the Shell refinery opened in 1956 as the largest industrial development in the area. Heritage Victoria records that the presence of Ford and the other major industries is what prompted the Housing Commission to develop here.
From the late 1950s the Commission built five estates in Corio, about 2,500 houses over roughly twenty years, and the schools followed through the 1960s and early 70s. By 2001 the population had passed fifteen thousand. At the 2021 census over nine in ten dwellings were freestanding houses and only about one in fifteen was a townhouse or unit, which is very little later infill by Geelong standards.
So the stock here is unusually uniform in age and type, most of it now sixty to seventy years old, and it sits on the bay with a refinery at one end of the suburb.
The practical version for a Corio owner: if your place is one of the Commission-era houses and the board has never been changed, it is at or past the age where that becomes the first job rather than the eventual one.
If a neighbour has recently had something done, it is often worth mentioning. In a street of near-identical houses, what they found is a fair guide to what is in yours.
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