Electrician Ashburton

If Your Ashburton House Still Has Its First Set of Wiring

If nobody has taken the wiring at your place back to the board, a fair part of the original installation is still in service. That includes the circuits, the points, and in many houses the board itself. Much of Ashburton is post-war housing, built for returning veterans. A house of that era that nobody has renovated still carries the wiring it left the builder with.

Age decides what our electrician walks in expecting to find. In a period house of the kind an electrician in Malvern works in, what the house is made of drives the quote. In a post-war Ashburton house, what the first circuits can still carry drives it. That is a question of load and condition, not looks.

Fault finding is the part of that work with no shortcut. A circuit that trips at odd hours, or a light that dims when something else switches on, sends our electrician back along the run to the connection behind it. In a house this old, that connection can be somewhere nobody’s looked since the day someone made it. We also assist customers with electrical emergencies.

On an Ashburton house of that age the work covers:

• New switchboards and a bigger supply behind them, plus rewiring where the first cable has reached the end of its life
• Extra lighting and power points in the rooms the original wiring never reached, and ceiling fans where a bedroom or a back room needs one
• Smoke alarms our electrician fits and then tests, plus a safety assessment over circuits nobody has opened in decades
• A car charger, heat pump hot water or home automation, each a load our electrician checks the old board against

Who You Are Hiring at Maroondah Electrical & Data

The owners of Maroondah Electrical & Data are the three people who started it in 1998: Glenn Carmody, Dean Carmody, Stuart Lancaster. It’s still a family-owned business. Electrical contractor licence REC 27611 covers every job, and our electricians carry their own licences and insurance. The office and the workshop are both 6 Royan Place, Bayswater North, Victoria 3153, and we book and dispatch every Ashburton job from that one address. Ashburton falls inside the City of Boroondara, and our electricians travel there the way they travel anywhere else in Melbourne’s east. Our about us page fills in the rest of it.

When an Ashburton Block Becomes Two Addresses

Subdividing an Ashburton property rather than renovating it divides the electrical work along with the land. The existing house keeps what it already has. The second dwelling needs its own connection from the street, and none of it carries over from the house that stood there first. Blocks here are large, and townhouses and apartments have already replaced houses on plenty of them.

On a new dwelling that work splits across the builder’s programme. Our electrician sets the cable runs and the outlet positions at rough-in, before the plasterer lines the frame. The fittings, the switches and the board itself go on at fit-off, once the builder has closed the building up.

A dwelling that did not exist last year has no cabling in it at all, and that’s the useful part. Your phone and internet points and any computer data cabling go in alongside the power circuits, run by the electrician already on site. Where the working room ends up becomes a decision on the drawing, not a compromise afterwards.

When an Ashburton Agent or Business Owner Books Ahead

If you’re letting out an Ashburton property or running a business from one, part of the electrical work belongs in a calendar rather than a phone call. Emergency and exit lighting, test and tagging and scheduled maintenance all book ahead. An agent tends to add the smoke alarms and safety checks on a let property to that visit.

The heavier end of it belongs on the commercial and industrial side. That covers three-phase power, new switchboards and power upgrades, rewiring, and the telephone systems a business still runs.