Electrician Surrey Hills

Live Cable and Dead Cable in a Surrey Hills Ceiling

If your kitchen, bathroom or back room has been redone, the wiring for the older version of that room rarely came out with it. Whoever did the work disconnected the cable at one end and left the rest where it lay. Pulling it out would have meant opening finishes that had only just gone back on. Some of what’s up there is dead. Some of it still runs back to the board.

Our electrician settles which is which before any new cable goes in. That history also explains the odd fault. A circuit drops out with no pattern to it, or a switch does nothing at all. Trace it back and you reach a connection somebody made during work nobody now remembers. Fault finding is how our electrician locates it. We test the circuit through to the break instead of guessing at it. We also assist customers with electrical emergencies.

What Changes Between a Period Surrey Hills House and a Newer One

What our electrician finds at your address depends on when the house went up. Victorian and Edwardian houses stand here alongside much newer ones. In a newer one, the installation went in as one piece of work, to one standard, on one day. In a period house it is the sum of everything anyone has done since. No two of those come out alike.

Whichever kind you’re in, the household work covers:

• Rewiring, one circuit at a time or the whole house at once
• New switchboards and power upgrades when the old board runs out of room
• New lighting and extra power points in rooms the original wiring never reached
• Fault finding when something trips, flickers or stops working for no clear reason
• Ceiling fans, heat pump hot water, an EV charger or home automation, added to an installation never planned for them
• Rough-in and fit-off while a renovation has the room open

Can the Old Phone Point Do Anything for Your Internet?

The old phone point in your hall went in for a telephone. A pair of wires runs to wherever the line first reached the house, and that is all it ever had to do. That’s why the modem in an older home sits in the front room, while the people who need it are three rooms away.

A cabled point moves the working end of the connection into the room that actually uses it. Our electrician pulls the phone and internet cable on the visit that runs the power circuits. One quote covers both. In a Surrey Hills shop or office, we set the routes for computer data cabling and a telephone system once, alongside the power.

Work Booked to a Date, Not to a Fault

A shop, an office or a house you rent out in Surrey Hills puts some of the electrical work on a calendar. Ahead of time you book smoke alarms, safety assessments, plus test and tagging. Emergency and exit lighting checks go on the calendar too, along with scheduled maintenance. Owners and managing agents tend to run several into one visit.

Who Owns Maroondah Electrical & Data, and Where It Works From

Maroondah Electrical & Data is a family-owned business, established in 1998 by three people: Glenn Carmody, Dean Carmody, Stuart Lancaster. Every electrician who turns up holds a licence and carries insurance. They all work under one electrical contractor licence, REC 27611.

The office and the workshop share one address: 6 Royan Place, Bayswater North, Victoria 3153. We dispatch every Surrey Hills job from there. Surrey Hills straddles two councils, Boroondara and Whitehorse, and it’s one of the inner-eastern suburbs on that run either way. Houses added to in stages are not particular to one suburb, so the same first look through the ceiling opens a job for an electrician in Balwyn as well. Call 03 9738 2000 to talk a job through, or read more about the team on our about us page.

Refitting a Shop on Union Road

A shop refit on Union Road, or an office fitout elsewhere in Surrey Hills, puts the whole of the electrical work into one stretch. Our electrician sets out the lighting and power for the layout that is going in. We size the switchboard for what the equipment will really draw, and add three-phase power where the plant calls for it. Commercial and industrial work covers rewiring, rough-in and fit-off, plus the cabling that runs beside them.