ELECTRICIAN MOSMAN

Yes. Call us early in the day and we can usually get a licensed electrician to you the same day across Mosman, Balmoral, Beauty Point, Clifton Gardens, Georges Heights and Spit Junction. Our hours are 7am to 5:30pm Monday to Friday and 7am to 2pm Saturday, and urgent faults are always prioritised.

Rather than a standard hourly rate, we quote the job. Once we understand the scope you get an upfront price covering labour, materials and any certification before we begin, so the figure you approve is the figure you pay. No hourly meter running, and no surprises on the invoice. Costs vary widely in Mosman depending on access, the age of the wiring and whether the property is a house, a semi or an apartment, which is exactly why we price the work rather than the clock.

Usually not. Mosman has more than 400 pairs of semi-detached homes built between the 1880s and the 1930s, and most have had circuits added over the decades rather than one original installation left untouched. The common fix is a switchboard upgrade, with RCDs and circuit breakers replacing the old ceramic fuses, plus repairs to whichever circuits test poorly. We test first and tell you which cabling is sound and which is not, so the money goes where it actually matters. Under AS/NZS 3000, replacing or altering a switchboard also triggers RCD protection on the final subcircuits it feeds, so that gets done properly as part of the upgrade.

It depends where the fault sits. Apartments make up just over half of all dwellings in Mosman, so we deal with this constantly. As a rule, the wiring, switches, outlets and fittings inside your lot are yours, while the meter room, the riser, the mains feeding the building and the common area lighting sit with the owners corporation. We can attend, find the fault, tell you plainly which side of that boundary it falls on, and give you something in writing to take to your strata manager.

Yes. Mosman has one of the highest rates of electric vehicle ownership in New South Wales, so this is regular work for us. For a house, the questions are whether your supply is single or three-phase, how much spare capacity the switchboard has, and how far the cable has to run. Since May 2023 an EV charger circuit cannot rely on an older Type AC safety switch, so a Type A or Type B device is fitted as part of the job. For an apartment, we look at the supply available in the car park, how the charger will be metered, and what the owners corporation needs to approve before anything is installed.

No, but it can change how the work is done. Mosman has 13 heritage conservation areas and around 500 heritage items, and the test Council applies is whether the work is minor or maintenance, and whether it would affect the heritage significance of the property. Internal rewiring is generally fine. What needs care is anything visible from the street or the harbour, such as external conduit runs, an air conditioning unit or a new antenna. We plan cable routes to stay out of sight, and where a Council approval or heritage exemption is needed we tell you before we start, not after.

Salt. Mosman is a peninsula with roughly 24 kilometres of foreshore, and the Australian corrosion standards place properties close to the water in a far higher corrosivity band than inland suburbs. Salt-laden air attacks screws, terminals, enclosures and light fittings, which is why an outdoor power point at Balmoral or Clifton Gardens can look ten years older than one of the same age two streets back from the water. The answer is fittings rated for the exposure, correctly sealed enclosures, stainless fixings, and having outdoor circuits looked at during a safety check rather than waiting for one to fail.

In New South Wales a rented home needs at least one working smoke alarm on each storey, in a hallway outside the bedrooms or another suitable location. As the landlord you have two business days to repair or replace an alarm that is not working, or to replace a battery, once you have been told about it, and a hard-wired smoke alarm must be repaired or replaced by a licensed electrician. Alarms also need replacing within 10 years of their manufacture date. Around a third of Mosman dwellings are rented, so we do a lot of this work for owners and managing agents.

Yes. We include a complimentary electrical safety check whenever we are on site for a booked job, covering the switchboard and safety switches, smoke alarms, visible cabling and outdoor circuits. You get a plain-English summary of anything that needs attention, with no obligation to go ahead.

Yes. Every electrician on our team is fully licensed and we carry full public liability insurance. All of our workmanship is backed by a lifetime labour guarantee, and manufacturer warranties apply to the products we supply and install.

All of it, and the neighbouring lower North Shore as well. That includes Balmoral, Beauty Point, Chinamans Beach, Clifton Gardens, Georges Heights, Spit Junction, The Spit, Mosman Bay and Mosman Junction, and it extends next door to Cremorne, Cremorne Point, Neutral Bay, Northbridge and Cammeray.