Power & lighting
Chases for new power points, switches and light runs on a rewire or a renovation.
Services in the wall, not on it
Wall
chasing
A chase is the channel we cut so your sparky or plumber can run services inside the wall instead of over it. Ours come out straight, cut to the depth the conduit needs, with the dust pulled off the tool instead of through the house.
What it covers
What we chase
Data & comms
Conduit runs for data, TV, security and intercom cabling, kept clear of the power lines.
Plumbing & hydronic
Channels for water lines, hydronic pipework and small waste runs in brick and block.
Air-conditioning
Pipe and drain runs chased in behind the wall so the head sits flush and the line is hidden.
Switchboard upgrades
Mains and sub-main runs chased from the board out, sized to the conduit going in.
Render-ready finish
Edges cut clean enough to patch, render and paint straight over.
- Materials
- Brick, block, render, concrete
- Dust control
- On-tool extraction — H/M-class vacuum
- Depth
- Cut to the conduit, within the limits the wall allows
- Access
- Occupied homes, units and live sites
On the job
What it looks like
How the job runs
Start to finish
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01
Conduit first, chase second
We size the channel off the conduit or pipe going in. Cutting deeper than the service needs only weakens the wall and makes the patch harder.
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02
Set out with the sparky
Where the runs go, how many, and where they terminate gets agreed before we start — it is a lot cheaper to move a line on the wall than in it.
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03
Extraction on the tool
The chaser runs into an M-class vacuum so the dust is captured at the blade. In an occupied house we sheet up as well.
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04
Vacuumed and ready
The chase is blown and vacuumed out so conduit sits in properly and the patch bonds to clean brick.
What it costs
What moves
the price
Chasing is priced by the metre, adjusted for the material and the number of separate runs. Render over brick is quick; solid concrete is slower and costs more. A dozen short chases in different rooms takes longer than the same total metres in one straight run, because most of the time goes on setting up and moving. Booking the whole rewire in one visit is always cheaper than doing it room by room.
Get a free quoteHave this ready when you call
- How many metres, roughly, and how many separate runs
- What the wall is: brick, block, render or concrete
- The conduit size going in
- Whether the wall is structural or a party wall
- Whether anyone is living there while we work
- Power on site for the tools and vacuum
None of it is essential — we can work it out on the phone. It just gets you a firm price faster.
Where we work
Wall chasing across Sydney
Based in Sydney and on the road daily, with the Eastern Suburbs a home patch — and the rest of Sydney a short drive.
Eastern Suburbs
- Bondi
- Bondi Junction
- Randwick
- Coogee
- Maroubra
- Clovelly
- Bronte
- Waverley
- Paddington
- Woollahra
- Double Bay
- Rose Bay
- Vaucluse
- Dover Heights
- Kensington
- Kingsford
- Mascot
- Surry Hills
… and the rest of Sydney
- Sydney CBD
- Inner West
- North Shore
- Northern Beaches
- Hills District
- Parramatta
- Western Sydney
- Liverpool
- Sutherland Shire
- Blacktown
- Penrith
- Campbelltown
- Central Coast
- Wollongong
- Blue Mountains
Questions
Wall chasing, answered
How deep can you chase a wall?
Deep enough for standard conduit, and no deeper than the wall can take. There are limits on how much you can cut out of a masonry wall before you weaken it, especially horizontally — we cut to the conduit and no further, and if what is being asked would go past the limit we will say so rather than do it.
Can you chase a load-bearing wall?
Carefully, and not always. Vertical chases are usually fine within limits, long horizontal chases in a structural wall often are not. If there is any doubt, that is an engineer's call — we will flag it rather than guess.
How much dust does it make?
Very little. The chaser runs a vacuum off the tool so the dust goes into the machine, not into the room. In an occupied house we will still sheet up the area before we start.
Do you patch the chase afterwards?
We cut, vacuum out and leave the chase clean and ready for conduit. Patching and rendering is usually done by the trade following us once the services are in, but ask when you call and we will tell you what the job needs.
Also on the truck