Wollstonecraft Electrician

Draw the line at your front door. Inside the unit, the power points, the lights, the unit's own switchboard, it is the owner's job, arranged directly with us, or through the property manager if the unit is rented. Outside the door, meter rooms, mains, stairwell and basement lighting, it belongs to the owners corporation and runs through strata. We work both sides of the line in Wollstonecraft buildings every week, and if you are not sure which side your problem is on, ask us and we will tell you before anything is booked.

Yes. Each unit is its own electrical installation from its switchboard in, so one flat can be rewired completely without touching the neighbours. In the deco and postwar buildings this is one of our most common jobs: fabric or rubber insulated cable replaced, an earth finally run to the lighting, a modern little board with safety switches on everything, all inside your own walls. A day or two of work, and the flat is electrically newer than most of the building.

That is the shared infrastructure telling you its age, and it is an owners corporation project rather than a repair. We inspect and report in plain terms: what is original, what is failing, what order to renew it in, and how to stage the work so residents keep power throughout. Strata committees like paper they can vote on, and that is what we produce, then we do the work we described.

Mostly, yes, and that is the honest answer. Nineties cable has decades left in it. What has aged is the protection: boards from that era often predate the rule that every circuit gets its own safety switch, so upgrades there are small, cheap and worthwhile. The other common call in buildings of that age is capacity and comfort: air conditioning circuits, more points, data where the router actually lives, and the building-scale car charging question, which starts with the owners corporation and a supply assessment.

Not on this page. The seven per cent of Wollstonecraft that is houses includes some beautiful Federation survivors, and they get the full treatment: staged rewiring around original plaster and joinery, a modern board, and lighting that respects the ceilings. Near the foreshore the gardens hold damp, so outdoor circuits get sealed fittings and their own protection, which ends the tradition of the safety switch tripping every wet week.

Almost always, and it transforms old flats. Adding points and circuits inside your own unit needs no strata permission in the ordinary case, just respect for the building's structure, so we fish cable through walls and skirtings without wrecking plaster, and where the unit's little board is full we upgrade it at the same time. The double adaptor towers behind the television are not a storage solution, they are a to-do list.

A few we are fond of. The suburb is named for Edward Wollstonecraft, whose first cousin Mary Shelley wrote the most famous book ever written about electricity, which we choose to take as a good omen. The Wondakiah estate stands on the old North Shore Gas Company works at Oyster Cove, so the suburb has been in the energy business since the 1880s. And there is a Cable Street, which we consider excellent town planning.

Attending your job is a chargeable callout. We confirm what it costs when you book, and the price for the work itself is agreed before we start, so there are no surprises on the invoice.