Electricians Bronte FAQs

Planned jobs are Monday to Friday, and that is when the phone gets picked up for bookings and quotes. Genuine emergencies ignore the calendar. Sparks, a dead board or the smell of something burning gets someone out at any hour, weekend included.

Often same or next day. We will not hold a slot we have not got, so the truthful answer depends on what the day already looks like. Ring early and your odds improve. Anything unsafe moves ahead of planned work, every time.

Phone is quickest. Call (02) 9134 9029, a real person answers the phone, and we book you in for a time that suits. The contact form is the after-hours option. Tell us your street, what is happening, and how urgent it feels to you.

We ask questions before we quote. What the fault does and when it started tells us who to send and how much of the day to set aside. If it sounds unsafe, you get talked through making it safe while we are on the way. Planned visits get confirmed the day beforehand.

No call-out fee. Quotes are free and done on site, so you can have someone look at the job and pay nothing to find out what it takes. We don't charge by the hour either. You get a fixed written price before we start, covering labour, materials, GST and the testing.

It is $50 off the first job we do for you, whatever the job is. A single power point counts, and so does a full board upgrade. Say so when you ring and it comes off the invoice at the end. Free quotes are separate, and you get those anyway.

The invoice arrives after the work is done and tested, not before. It matches what was agreed before we started, because the price we quote is the price you pay. Photos of the completed work and your compliance paperwork follow by email.

No. The price is agreed before any work starts and it holds, even where a job runs longer than we planned for. The exception is work nobody could see coming, like cloth-insulated wiring buried in a wall. We stop there, show you what turned up, and re-quote before touching it.

Bronte is home turf. The regular run takes in Waverley, Clovelly and Coogee. We are across Bondi and Randwick as well, with the same crew covering the lot. If your street is not on that list, ring and ask anyway, because the edges are rarely a problem.

Well enough to know what usually sits behind the plaster. The housing here runs across three eras: pre-1940 Federation and inter-war places on the gully hillsides, a wave through the eighties and nineties, and the knockdown-rebuilds of the last twenty years. Terraces, semis and small blocks of flats sit between them. That mix is why we look at the board first and assume nothing.

Yes, and it is a good slice of what this suburb calls us for. Renovations and knockdown-rebuilds both need the circuits mapped early, then run before the walls close up. We work in around the builder's program and whoever else is on site. Everything gets tested before we sign off.

Clipsal and Hager for switchboards and circuit protection. Lighting is usually SAL or Beacon Lighting, and it is premium gear, not cheap imports. Want a particular brand on the wall? Say so at quote time and we will price it in rather than talk you out of it.

The Wiring Rules, and they are not optional. It is the standard that says how an installation must be designed, wired and tested, right down to where the safety switches go. Our work follows AS/NZS 3000. The testing at the end, and the paperwork that comes with it, is how you know it did.

A safety switch (RCD) compares the power flowing out against the power coming back. When some goes missing, through a person for instance, the circuit gets cut before the shock does real damage. Yes, you need them. The rules now want a safety switch on every circuit, and older boards were built well before that was true.

No. DIY electrical work is illegal in NSW, and that covers jobs that look harmless, such as a light swap or shifting a power point. That is licensed work, and it has to be tested and certified. Ring us instead and it gets done properly the first time.