Switchboards

Common signs include ceramic rewireable fuses instead of circuit breakers, no safety switches on power circuits, frequent tripping under normal load, scorch marks around the board, or a board that's clearly been added to in patches over the years. The team will inspect, photograph what's there and give you an honest read on whether an upgrade is genuinely required now or whether it can be planned for later.

Most domestic switchboard upgrades are completed in a single working day. Power is off for several hours during the changeover, so the booking call will work through timing that suits your household — fridges, freezers, working-from-home setups. If the meter enclosure or main supply needs work at the same time, Energex coordination can stretch the timeline; that's flagged on the quote rather than discovered on the day.

Yes. Any required Energex Form A or service-and-installation rule paperwork is prepared, lodged and tracked through to completion by the team. If a temporary disconnection or meter reconfiguration is needed, that's coordinated directly with the network rather than left for you to chase.

Yes. Modern installs include RCBOs — a combined circuit breaker and safety switch on every final sub-circuit — rather than a single shared RCD per row. That means a fault on one circuit doesn't take out half the house, and faults are easier to locate. It's the safer and more livable approach and it's the default offering.

Yes. Every circuit is tested live, labelled with what it actually feeds — not what the original installer guessed — and a printed legend is fitted to the inside of the door. Future electrical work in your home is faster and cheaper because the next sparkie can see exactly what's what without spending an hour with a circuit tracer.

Sometimes — partial upgrades make sense when there's a clear safety improvement on a tight budget, such as adding RCDs to existing circuits or replacing rewireable fuses with breakers. But if the enclosure is undersized, the bus-bar is rated for old loads, or there's evidence of overheating, a full replacement is honestly the right answer and that's what you'll be told.

Yes. A Certificate of Testing and Compliance is mandatory for switchboard work in Queensland and is issued for every job. Your copy is filed with the project paperwork; the regulator copy is lodged electronically. The certificate is your evidence that the work was done by a licensed electrician to current standards — keep it with your house papers.