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Limited-time offers for homes, apartments and businesses across Redfern, the Redfern Street village, Redfern Park, the station precinct and the Elizabeth Street and Chalmers Street corridors. Mention the offer when you book and we will apply it to your quote.
Lighting, power points, ceiling fans, switchboard and safety switch upgrades, smoke alarms, rewiring and fault finding – we look after every part of a home’s electrical system. Redfern is a renters’ suburb built on Victorian bones. Just 1.4 per cent of dwellings are separate houses; 28.6 per cent are terraces and 68.1 per cent are flats, and 61.9 per cent of homes are rented. The Redfern Estate conservation area dates the core development to 1842 to 1890, with building continuing to about 1940 and public housing added from the 1940s to the 1970s.
Redfern Street is the village strip, with Cleveland Street, Elizabeth Street, Baptist Street and Lawson Street around it. The old railway land at North Eveleigh is being rezoned for homes and several thousand innovation and creative jobs. We cover fit-outs, three-phase supply, data cabling, emergency and exit lighting, and maintenance planned around your trading hours.
We provide same-day service across Redfern, the Redfern Street village, the station precinct and the Elizabeth Street corridor. Failed switchboards, dead common-property and stairwell lighting, tripping circuits in a subdivided terrace and water-affected wiring all get the same response: we make the site safe first, then quote.
At Olympic Electrical, we are proud to be the electricians Redfern families, strata committees and business owners trust. Every job is handled by fully licensed tradespeople with years of experience behind them and a standard of work we stand by.
Whether it is a straightforward installation, a switchboard upgrade, power out to a shed or studio, or an emergency electrician at short notice, we are equipped for it. We are more than just electricians – we are the local electrician experts across the City of Sydney, for every job big and small.
We are just a call away – wherever you are in Redfern, from the Redfern Street village and Redfern Park through Regent Street, Elizabeth Street, Chalmers Street, Lawson Street, Little Eveleigh Street and the station precinct, we get an electrician to you fast.
Nearly 62 per cent of Redfern homes are rented, the highest share we work in. We fit and replace hard-wired alarms inside the legal window, confirm one on every storey and leave dated records for the agent.
Just over 68 per cent of dwellings are flats, from pre-war walk-ups to new blocks near the station. We trace faults across shared switchboards, rising mains and common-area lighting and report clearly to strata.
The Redfern Estate and Baptist Street conservation areas cover much of the suburb, with development dated from 1842. We rewire terraces without surface-mounting anything that reads from the street.
Redfern Street carries cafes, bars and small retail. We assess the supply, split load onto dedicated circuits and install compliant lighting, power and exit signage.
All our electricians are fully licensed, insured, and continuously trained to stay current with industry standards. We bring years of hands-on experience to every project, making sure your electrical work is done safely and to the highest possible standard.
From the first quote to the final invoice, you’ll know exactly what you’re paying for. Our clear communication and honest approach help you plan your project with complete confidence.
When something goes wrong, it goes to the front of the queue. Our electricians respond quickly and offer same-day service, so power and safety are restored without a long wait.
We’re proud to be a top-rated Sydney electrician, with 250+ happy customers and a long list of five-star reviews behind us. That reputation is built on turning up, doing the job properly and standing behind it.
We back the quality of our workmanship with a lifetime labour guarantee. This means you can have total confidence knowing that if any issues arise due to our work, we’ll return promptly to make it right — no extra cost, no hassle.
Booking us is easy — call, send an email, or fill out our quick online form, and we will find a time that works around your day. Our friendly team responds promptly and takes the time to understand exactly what you need.
Once we understand the scope of your project, we’ll provide a detailed and transparent quote outlining all costs upfront. We believe in honesty and clear communication, ensuring there are no hidden fees or last-minute surprises.
We turn up inside the window we promised, and if anything changes you hear from us first. Our electricians are punctual, prepared and respectful of your home or business from the moment they arrive.
Our electricians treat every property — whether it’s a home or business — with the utmost respect. We work efficiently, maintain a tidy workspace, and thoroughly clean up after the job is completed.
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Olympic Electrical started in 2017 with one van, a licence and a simple promise: turn up when we say we will, and charge what we quoted. Spyro still runs the business the same way today, and the team has grown to five-plus licensed electricians working across Sydney and through Redfern and the City of Sydney every week.
You deal with tradespeople, not a call centre. The electrician who quotes your job is the electrician who does it, the site is left clean, and the workmanship is backed by a lifetime labour guarantee. That is how we have built a base of more than 250 happy customers and thousands of completed jobs.
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Call us and you will speak to a licensed electrician, not a call centre. Tell us what has gone wrong and we will give you a straight answer, a fixed price and a time we will actually be there.
Spyro — Founder, Olympic Electrical
From power points and ceiling fans to full rewires and commercial fit-outs, we handle every job with care and turn up when we say we will. Book your free quote today.
Almost 62 per cent of Redfern homes are rented, which is close to double the state average, and a lot of that stock is subdivided terrace and older walk-up where alarms and switchboards get overlooked between tenancies. Getting a property compliant here is usually a smoke alarm job and a switchboard job at the same time.
Every job we complete is covered by a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work, as New South Wales requires. Where we replace or alter a switchboard, AS/NZS 3000 requires RCD protection on the final subcircuits, so that work is brought up to standard rather than patched around. Type AC safety switches have not been permitted in new electrical work since 1 May 2023, so we fit Type A or Type B as the circuit demands.
We quote the job, and the fixed price is agreed before work starts. Published rates mean little in Redfern, because a lighting circuit in a new block near the station and the same job in an 1880s terrace off Redfern Street involve very different access, cable runs and making good. So we look at the property, explain what the work involves, and put the figure in writing.
Whether it is a switchboard upgrade, new lighting or a full rewire at home, or a fit-out, three-phase supply and planned maintenance for your business, our licensed electricians handle it end to end. You get a fixed price agreed before we start, a tidy site when we leave, and a lifetime labour guarantee on every job across Redfern and the City of Sydney.
The questions we hear most from Redfern homeowners, apartment residents and strata committees. If yours is not covered here, call us on 02 8999 3691.
Yes, in most cases. We work Monday to Friday from 7am to 5:30pm and Saturday from 7am to 2pm, and Redfern is a short run for our vans. Call 02 8999 3691 early and we will usually get someone to you the same day. If the fault is a safety risk, such as a burning smell or a dead switchboard, it goes to the front of the list.
We do not publish prices, because no two Redfern jobs are the same. A power point in a new block near the station and a rewire in an 1880s terrace off Redfern Street carry very different labour, access and making good. We attend, look at the actual work, and give you a fixed price agreed before anything starts. The quote covers materials, labour, testing and the compliance certificate.
Old boards in terraces and overloaded shared boards in the flats. The Redfern Estate conservation area dates the core development from 1842, with building continuing to about 1940, so brittle cabling and rewireable fuses are still out there. Add subdivided terraces where tenancies share circuits that were never meant to be shared, and nuisance tripping is the usual first symptom. We replace the board, test every circuit and fit RCD protection where the standard requires it.
In New South Wales a rented home needs a working smoke alarm on every storey. You must repair or replace a faulty alarm within two business days of being told about it, and alarms must be replaced within ten years of the manufacture date. Hard-wired alarms must be worked on by a licensed electrician. We attend, install or replace, test everything and leave you dated records you can put on file.
Just over 68 per cent of Redfern dwellings are flats, so we field this constantly. As a rough guide, wiring inside your lot from the point it branches off common property is usually the owner responsibility, while the shared switchboard, rising mains, meter panels, stairwell lighting and car park lighting are common property. We attend, identify which side of that line the fault sits on, and write it up so your strata manager has something clear to act on.
Sometimes, and off-street parking is the constraint rather than the electrical work. Around 39 per cent of Redfern dwellings have no motor vehicle at all and most terraces have no garage, so a home charger is only an option where there is a hardstand, garage or strata car space. Where there is, we check the supply, the board capacity and the cable route, then quote a compliant install with Type A or Type B protection as the installation requires.
It affects how, not whether. Sydney LEP 2012 lists the Redfern Estate and Baptist Street conservation areas over much of the suburb, and there are State-listed items nearby including the Redfern Railway Station group and Redfern Park. Internal rewiring and switchboard work generally proceed normally. We plan routes so nothing new is surface-mounted on a street-facing elevation, and anything visible externally is worth checking with the City of Sydney first.
Yes. Redfern has a long-standing public and community housing presence, with the Elizabeth Street holdings and the Redfern Place redevelopment adding several hundred social, affordable and specialist disability homes. That work is the same trade with tighter access and reporting: we book through the manager, attend, document the fault and the fix, and leave records that satisfy the maintenance contract.
When we are already on site for a booked job, the safety check costs nothing. We look over the switchboard, test the safety switches, check the smoke alarms and look for obvious hazards such as scorched outlets, loose fittings or perished cabling. You get a plain summary of what we found, what is urgent and what can wait. There is no obligation to book any of it.
Every electrician on the team is licensed and insured. We have been trading since 2017 under founder Spyro, with more than five licensed electricians on the tools, over 250 customers and more than 7,000 projects behind us. We back our workmanship with a lifetime labour guarantee, so if something we installed fails because of our work, we come back and fix it.
Redfern 2016 is core territory for us, including the Redfern Street village, Redfern Park and Oval, the station precinct, Little Eveleigh Street, Lawson Street, Regent Street, Elizabeth Street and Chalmers Street. We also cover Eveleigh, Darlington, Waterloo, Alexandria, Chippendale, Surry Hills, Strawberry Hills, Erskineville, Macdonaldtown, Zetland, Green Square, Beaconsfield, Rosebery, Newtown and Ultimo.
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