ELECTRICIAN LEWISHAM

Usually. Our electricians are working Monday through Friday from 7am to 5:30pm, and on Saturdays from 7am to 2pm, and Lewisham is close to several of our regular jobs. If you call 02 8999 3691 early, a same-day visit is likely. Faults such as smoke from an outlet, a warm board or a building with no power are handled ahead of standard bookings.

We never publish rates, because Lewisham jobs vary so much. Replacing a light in a modern apartment is quick, but running a new circuit through a nineteenth-century cottage with lath ceilings and brick walls takes far longer. We visit, look at the actual conditions and then give you a written fixed price that holds unless you ask for extra work.

Small, crowded switchboards with few or no safety switches are the biggest one. Many walk-ups were built long before today’s appliance loads, so we find overloaded kitchen circuits, tired light switches and cable that has been extended several times. Common lighting and intercom faults also appear regularly. We test the circuits, show you or the strata manager what we found and quote a sensible fix.

That turns on the fault’s location. Cabling downstream of the board inside your flat is generally yours to fix, while main switchboards, meter panels, risers and hallway lighting are usually common property. With 57 per cent of Lewisham homes being flats, we get asked this constantly. We find the fault first and report to both parties so there is no argument about who pays.

It affects how we work rather than whether we can. The Lewisham Estate Heritage Conservation Area covers several sub-precincts with shared heritage values, so external changes such as new meter boxes, conduits on the facade or prominent lighting may need council guidance. Internal rewiring is generally straightforward. We keep new work out of sight from the street and protect original ceilings and joinery.

You need a working alarm on every storey of the dwelling. Faults reported by a tenant must be repaired within two business days, and alarms must be replaced ten years after the manufacture date printed on them. Hard-wired units can only be installed by a licensed electrician. Nearly half the homes here are rented, so we do many of these jobs and can provide alarm testing with a dated certificate.

Possibly, but it depends on the building. Lewisham averages 1.1 vehicles per dwelling, and chargers in shared car parks need strata approval plus enough spare capacity on the building supply. We assess the main board, advise on load management and run a dedicated circuit to your space once approval is in place. Houses with a garage or driveway are usually simpler.

Water is getting into something. Outdoor lights, garden power points, old junction boxes and cable in damp subfloors are the usual suspects, and parts of Lewisham drain toward the Long Cove Creek valley. We isolate circuits one by one to find the leak, then replace or reseal the faulty part. Please avoid resetting a switch again and again, because it is warning you about a real fault.

Yes. Lewisham has several educational and church sites, including Christian Brothers’ High School and Lewisham Public School on The Boulevarde and St Thomas Becket’s on Thomas Street. We carry out lighting upgrades, emergency and exit light testing, repairs and additional power points, scheduling noisy work outside class times or services.

We cover all of Lewisham 2049, including The Boulevarde, Thomas Street, Toothill Street, the station precinct, the Lewisham West and Taverners Hill light rail stops, the Long Cove Creek viaducts and the Parramatta Road and New Canterbury Road edges. We also work every day in Petersham, Summer Hill, Dulwich Hill, Leichhardt, Marrickville, Stanmore and Newtown.