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Living in a Harris Street apartment, running a studio beside the Goods Line or managing a strata block near Wentworth Park? Our current Ultimo deals stretch to Wattle Street, Jones Street and the Broadway edge as well. Mention the offer when you phone to book and we apply it.
Ultimo is apartment country. The 2021 Census recorded 87.4 per cent flats, 11.7 per cent terraces or townhouses and only five separate houses in the whole suburb. Many blocks grew out of the woolstore and factory conversions that began in the early 1980s, while Victorian rows around Wattle, Jones and Quarry Streets survive from the 1880s building surge. Two-bedroom units make up 39.9 per cent of homes. We handle switchboard replacements in cramped unit cupboards, extra circuits for home offices and fault finding through converted brick warehouses.
Business here leans on media, education and technology. The ABC has been headquartered on Harris Street since 1991, UTS and TAFE NSW anchor the southern blocks, and the suburb sits inside Tech Central with Australia’s densest cluster of startups. For offices, labs and Broadway retail we deliver tenancy fit-out wiring, extra capacity for equipment and planned maintenance.
Our same-day service runs across Ultimo, from the Wentworth Park side over to the Darling Harbour edge. Common urgent calls: a unit board tripping the moment the split system starts, a scorched outlet behind a student’s desk, rain getting into light fittings in a warehouse conversion, and a Harris Street shop losing power before opening.
Close to seven in ten Ultimo homes are leased, so much of our work here is for landlords, agents and owners corporations keeping units compliant between tenants. We also look after small design and software teams that have moved into the old Wattle Street warehouses, and the cafes and shops that feed UTS students along Harris Street and Broadway. Choosing a nearby Ultimo electrician means less of your day lost to city traffic and hunting for a park.
The work shifts from building to building. A converted woolstore can hide heavy timber posts and solid brick that take patience to cable through, while a Jones Street terrace may still run on a cramped original meter panel. We rewire, add three-phase for commercial kitchens, sort out RCDs that nuisance-trip, and send an urgent response electrician when power fails without warning. We cover Ultimo and the rest of the City of Sydney daily.
Ultimo once had 15 woolstores, and many of its apartment blocks grew out of those shells from the 1980s. We route new circuits through heavy masonry and old structural bays without spoiling exposed brick.
Victorian rows around Wattle, Jones and Quarry Streets date from the area's 1880s building boom. We replace tired cabling, add proper earthing and fit modern boards while leaving facades and ceiling details intact.
With 68.1 per cent of dwellings rented and UTS and TAFE on the doorstep, units here change hands often. We test alarms, check RCD protection and leave dated records at each change of tenant.
Tech Central has drawn startups onto Ultimo's older commercial floors. We add power along benches, rewire meeting rooms and fit LED lighting so small teams can move in and start work quickly.
Every tradesperson we send is licensed and has already dealt with Ultimo’s blend of 1880s terraces, converted woolstores and newer towers, so odd cable routes and shared meter rooms hold no surprises.
You see a written fixed figure once we have inspected. A studio in a Harris Street tower and a Wattle Street terrace get separate quotes, because their wiring paths differ so much.
If a unit near UTS loses power mid-semester or a Broadway shop goes dark before trade, we reshuffle the day’s bookings so an electrician gets to you quickly.
Ultimo landlords, strata managers and small tech tenants sit among our 250+ customers, many of them sent by a neighbour in the same building or an agent managing several units here.
Labour on every circuit we install in an Ultimo apartment, terrace or office is guaranteed for life, and if our workmanship ever fails we come back and fix it.
Give us the building name, your floor and how the concierge or strata manager admits tradespeople. We then choose a slot that suits lectures, shift work or office hours.
We look over the board and the cable paths, explain in plain words what the job involves, and email you one fixed figure before anything is touched.
Kerbside parking around Harris Street and Broadway fills early, so we plan the loading zone ahead and arrive inside the agreed window, ringing you if traffic near Central holds us up.
We protect carpets and lift walls, bag every offcut, then hand over the compliance paperwork and a short summary you can forward to your agent or building manager.
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Ultimo has been on our run sheet almost since Spyro opened the doors in 2017, and the crew now numbers more than five licensed electricians. The suburb suits us: one day it is a smoke alarm swap for a student rental, the next it is reworking power in a studio inside a Federation warehouse. We plan around building managers, respect the fabric of older terraces and make sure one electrician stays with your job from first look to sign-off.
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It’s Spyro here. Got an Ultimo unit that keeps tripping, or a Harris Street office short of outlets? Ring me on 02 8999 3691 and I’ll send one of our licensed electricians round for a proper look.
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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.
Ultimo holds the highest density of startups in Australia and is a central pillar of the NSW Government’s Tech Central precinct, next to the ABC’s Harris Street headquarters and the main UTS campus. Much of that activity happens in reused industrial buildings whose original supply was never planned for rows of computers and servers.
Every Ultimo job ends with a CCEW, which NSW law requires of us. That matters in buildings converted from warehouses, where past owners often left undocumented alterations behind. When we replace or alter a board, AS/NZS 3000 obliges us to add residual current protection across the final subcircuits, and since Type AC devices have been barred from new work from 1 May 2023, we fit Type A or better.
Rather than a rate card, you get one written figure after we have seen the job. In Ultimo the spread is wide: changing lights in a recent tower near Broadway is usually quick, while the same fittings in a Jones Street terrace can mean lifting floorboards and working around lath ceilings. Inspecting first keeps the number honest, and it stays put unless you widen the scope.
Nuisance tripping in a Harris Street apartment, a smoke alarm notice from your agent, or a studio fit-out in an old warehouse near the Goods Line? Dial 02 8999 3691 to have a licensed electrician inspect it, set a fixed price on paper and guarantee the labour for life.
Ultimo landlords, apartment owners, strata committees and the startups working near Harris Street ask us these most. If yours is not covered here, call us on 02 8999 3691.
Most days, yes. We run weekdays from 7am to 5:30pm and Saturdays from 7am to 2pm, and Ultimo is a short drive from routes our vans already cover. Calling 02 8999 3691 before mid-morning usually secures a slot that day. A burning smell, a sparking outlet or a main switch that refuses to reset is treated as urgent and slotted in first.
We set the price after seeing the work, not before. Two jobs that sound alike can differ a lot here: extending power in a modern Broadway apartment is simple, while doing the same through the solid walls of a converted woolstore takes far longer. After a look, we write down a fixed figure, and it only changes if you add to the job.
Many Ultimo units were carved out of industrial buildings from the 1980s onward, and their boards were sized for the appliances of that time. Add split systems, induction cooking and a home office, and circuits run close to their limit, while ageing safety switches can trip on small earth leakage. We test each circuit, find the real cause and recommend a fix, which may mean splitting loads or upgrading the board.
Generally the lot owner looks after wiring downstream of their own unit board, while main switchrooms, risers, corridor lights and car park circuits are common property. With 87.4 per cent of Ultimo homes being flats, we field this question constantly. We trace the fault, show where it sits and give a written note that both you and the strata manager can act on.
It can. Places such as the Ultimo Post Office at 494 Harris Street, the Mountain Street substation and the William Henry Street sewage pumping station are heritage listed, and older terraces often carry local controls. Internal work is usually straightforward, but we keep new meter boxes, conduits and external lights off protected elevations and check with the City of Sydney where approval may be needed.
Each storey needs a working alarm, a fault the tenant reports carries a two business day repair deadline, and units older than ten years from manufacture must come out. Hard-wired units must go in via a licensed electrician. With so many Ultimo units let to students and young workers, we also offer smoke alarm testing between leases and leave dated records for your file.
Possibly, but it hinges on the car space. The 2021 Census found 45 per cent of Ultimo households own no vehicle, and those that do mostly park in shared basements. We assess spare capacity on the building supply, work with the owners corporation on metering and run a dedicated circuit to your bay. Chargers on public kerbs are outside what we install.
Yes. The commercial strips along Broadway, Harris Street and Wattle Street serve students and office workers with food, retail and services. We plan circuits for coffee machines, ovens and cool rooms, install commercial lighting and power, fit exit signage and book disruptive work outside trading hours so you lose as little takings as possible.
On any booked visit we look over the switchboard, test safety switches and mention anything that concerns us, at no extra cost. In Ultimo that often turns up old ceramic fuses in terraces or unlabelled circuits in warehouse units. You receive a plain written note, and nothing more is done unless you approve it.
Every member of the team is licensed and insured. The company dates from 2017, when Spyro set it up, and today counts over five electricians and upwards of 7,000 finished projects. Labour on each job carries a lifetime guarantee, so if our workmanship lets you down in your Ultimo home or office, we return and put it right.
All of Ultimo 2007, including Harris Street, Wattle Street, Jones Street, Quarry Street, Bulwara Road, Thomas Street, Mountain Street, William Henry Street, Ultimo Road and the Broadway edge, plus the streets around Wentworth Park, the Goods Line and the Powerhouse Museum. We also work daily in Pyrmont, Haymarket, Chinatown, Glebe, Chippendale, Darling Harbour, Forest Lodge and the Sydney CBD.
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