Electrician Maitland

Nothing. We do not charge to look at a job we are quoting, and you owe us nothing if you go elsewhere. You pay us directly for the work itself. No third party pays us to send you anywhere, so the job we recommend is the job you actually have rather than the one that earns someone a referral.

No. There is no call-out fee, on a scheduled job or at two in the morning, so you are not paying us to turn up and look. You pay for the work, and we tell you what that costs on the phone before anyone is dispatched rather than after. If we can talk you through it and the answer is that you do not need us tonight, that call costs you nothing either.

By the job, on anything we have been able to look at first. You get a scope and a fixed price, you agree to it, and that is what you pay whether the job runs long or short. It is the honest way round on older Maitland housing especially, because the things that blow a job out are the things behind the wall that you had no way of knowing about and we did. Where a fault has to be found before anyone can say what fixing it involves, we tell you what the diagnosis costs before we start looking, then price the repair separately once we know what it is.

The age of the property, what has stopped working or what you want added, and a photo of your switchboard with the cover off. Those three things let us price most jobs in Maitland without attending, and they tell us straight away whether the board can take what you are asking for.

It depends what has happened. A 3am call and a Tuesday morning call are different problems, so we answer the phone ourselves rather than routing it to a service. We attend emergencies 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and we put burning smells, sparking fittings and total loss of power ahead of everything else. Scheduled work we book to a nominated day: switchboard upgrades, rewires, charger installations, because those jobs need your supply off for an extended period and we would rather you planned around it.

No fixed or hardwired electrical work is legal to do unlicensed in NSW, regardless of how small the job is or what it costs. Changing a light globe or starter like for like, plugging in a portable appliance and replacing a plug-in fuse are the exceptions. Unlicensed electrical wiring work carries penalties of up to $22,000 for an individual and $110,000 for a company under the Home Building Act 1989. That is the short version of why we would rather you rang us about a power point than watched a video about one.

A Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work, or CCEW. We issue it to you, to Building Commission NSW and to the electricity distributor within seven days of finishing the compliance testing. Minor like-for-like repairs such as swapping a single power point or switch may not always require one. From 1 July 2026 we lodge CCEWs digitally through the BCNSW eCert portal, which changes how we submit it rather than what you receive.

Almost everything inside your property we do ourselves, under a general electrical contractor licence. The exception is the connection between the network and your property: consumer mains, service lines, metering and the point of attachment. That work legally requires Level 2 accreditation, so we bring an accredited provider in and coordinate it rather than leaving you to find one.

Yes, and most of it we arrange directly with the tenant once you have approved the job and the price. We book the access, attend, and send you the invoice and the paperwork. On smoke alarms and safety switches, which are where the compliance obligation sits, you get the test records dated and in writing, because that is what your agent will ask you for.