Licensed Electricians for Eastlakes Homes

This suburb sits on ground that used to be something else. The Rosebery Racecourse and the Botany Swamps were here first, and what replaced them went up in dated, deliberate waves.

Grafton Street splits it, and the split is useful to an electrician.

North of that line, the stock runs to medium and high-density flats, including three large public housing estates raised in the 1960s and 70s when the old racecourse land was redeveloped.

South of Grafton Street, it changes character completely: single-storey brick houses, most of them the post-war build of the 1940s, 50s and early 60s.

Those southern houses fail differently to the flats. They are rarely a fuse-board rescue and far more often a slow accumulation, a circuit added for a second fridge, another for a garage, each one bolted onto a design that finished decades ago.

Florence Avenue is a fair example of the older grain here, with the public school on it that has served the suburb since the 1930s.

Evans Avenue holds the newest chapter, the Crown Group towers, part of an apartment renewal that has redrawn this end of the suburb.

Now the electrical consequence, which is unusually concentrated here. Those 1960s and 70s flats and estates very commonly retain the ceramic fuse switchboards they were built with, installed before modern circuit protection existed as an idea.

A ceramic fuse board is not a weaker version of a modern one. It is a different theory of safety, written when the information was different.

That is why the answer is replacement and not repair. You cannot patch a board forward thirty years.

None of which is a knock on the buildings, since they were wired properly for their year. The year moved on, and every appliance in the kitchen moved with it.

Beyond the fuse boards above, three faults account for the bulk of the calls from 2018. Each traces to the decade its building went up:

Not every job here is a home. Eastlake Golf Club sits on Gardeners Road and The Lakes runs along the suburb's south-eastern edge, and both are large sites with long outdoor runs and lighting that lives outside all year.

The Grand Eastlakes on Evans Avenue, Woolworths and Aldi under one roof, is the retail centre now. Small tenancy jobs in a precinct like that get done between deliveries and opening.

Different buildings entirely, same wiring rules, same certificate at the end of it.

1. You ring and a real person answers the phone. Not a call centre. Describe the symptom and you get a straight answer on whether it is dangerous tonight or fine until Thursday.
2. You get the price in writing. A fixed written price before we start, itemised, and no call-out fee for the quote itself. The price is agreed before any work starts.
3. The job gets done. Everything tested before we sign off, the place left as clean as we found it, and notifiable electrical work lodged with NSW Fair Trading.
4. The certificate follows. A Certificate of Compliance for electrical work, a 12-month product warranty, and our lifetime workmanship guarantee behind the labour.