Electrician in Churchlands

A big brick home from this era was designed around a hot water service, an oven and a handful of lighting circuits. Today the same house is running ducted cooling, an induction cooktop, a pool or spa pump, a home office and often two cars that want charging overnight. The wiring is usually sound, but the board and the supply were never sized for that load.

Rebuilt homes on these blocks have the opposite issue: capacity is there, but the fit-out keeps growing after handover. Extra circuits for a garage, an outdoor kitchen, a studio out the back or a second charger all need to be planned against what the main switchboard and submains can actually carry.

Because blocks here are generous, cable runs are long. A charger in a detached garage or lighting down a side driveway needs the right cable size to avoid voltage drop, and the trenching has to be planned around established gardens and paved driveways.

Switchboard upgrades here are as much about capacity as safety. We check the existing main switch and supply, add RCD protection on every circuit, and size the new board so there is room for the circuits you will realistically add over the next few years rather than a board that is full on day one.

EV charger installation is the most common addition. The install itself is simple; the assessment is not. Available supply, existing load, cable route from board to garage and whether load management or a board upgrade is needed all get worked out before a price is given, so the quote reflects the whole job.

The rest is steady family-home work: replacing failed outdoor lighting, adding dedicated circuits for air conditioning, sorting out garage and shed power, and finding faults on circuits that have started tripping. Everything is priced in writing first and certified on completion.