Switchboard upgrades, safety switch retrofits, and meter board replacements.
Old ceramic-fuse switchboards are a fire risk and won't support modern appliances. We upgrade to a clean, labelled, code-compliant board with proper safety switches on every circuit, certified and ready for your insurer.
Morningside, Carina, Camp Hill, Coorparoo, New Farm, Hawthorne, Bulimba, Norman Park, Cannon Hill — and the wider inner-east Brisbane area for ongoing commercial clients.
If your board still has ceramic-fuse rewireable circuits, asbestos backing, or no safety switches on the lighting and power circuits, it's well past replacement. Same goes if breakers trip regularly, smell hot, or you're adding significant load (EV charger, ducted AC, solar). If you're not sure, we'll pull the cover and tell you.
Typically a single day. The supply authority needs to disconnect and reconnect, which we organise; you'll be without power for around four to six hours during the swap. We schedule the work for a day that suits you and warn you the night before so you can plan.
It depends on the size of the board, the number of circuits, and whether the supply needs upgrading too. A straightforward residential board swap is one fixed price; commercial boards and three-phase setups are quoted individually after a site visit. We do not give made-up phone numbers — every quote is in writing.
Many home insurers now ask for a compliant board (with safety switches and labelled circuits) as a condition of cover, especially after an electrical incident. After the upgrade we provide a Certificate of Electrical Safety, which is the document your insurer wants on file. Send it to them when you renew.
Yes — and we follow the proper containment process. Asbestos-backed boards are common in pre-1990 homes and removing them safely is part of our standard procedure. We test, contain, dispose through a licensed waste handler, and document everything.
For at least the start and finish of the day, yes — there's a brief outage you should be aware of, and we want to talk you through the new board and its labelling before we leave. The middle hours of the work, we're happy to keep going while you're at the shops or at work.
Yes. A big part of a board upgrade is sorting out the spaghetti behind the old face plate. New circuits get labelled at the breaker, cable runs are cleated, neutrals and earths are bonded correctly. The result is a board the next electrician will thank us for.
