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Solar designed and installed by your local NETCC-approved team
Home and business battery storage, with rebates and finance sorted for you
Licensed electrical work across the Hunter
Old fuse box, nuisance tripping, or adding solar or an EV charger? A switchboard upgrade from your local licensed electrician keeps your home safe, compliant and ready for whatever you plug into it.
Your switchboard is the heart of your home’s electrical system. It takes the incoming supply and splits it across the circuits that run your lights, power points and appliances, and it’s meant to cut the power the moment a fault occurs. Older boards can’t always do that, which is where an upgrade comes in.
A board built around ceramic fuses was designed for a much smaller load than a modern home puts through it, and it predates the safety switches now considered standard. Many boards on asbestos backing panels are still in service in Hunter homes built before the mid-1980s. That’s a genuine safety risk: ageing wiring and a tired supply are a leading source of electrical faults in older homes, and an outdated board can create problems with home insurance if a fault is ever traced back to it.
A rewireable "fuse wire" board instead of modern circuit breakers.
The biggest safety gap in an older board: no RCD protection on your circuits.
Fuses blow or breakers trip when a few appliances run at once.
A new kitchen, air-con or granny flat adds more load than the old board was built for.
A very common trigger: these change the load and often need an upgraded board first.
Buzzing, a warm board or scorching. Stop using it and call an electrician.
Preparing a rental for lease, an overcrowded board with no room to add circuits, or an asbestos backing panel are all common triggers too. Ticked even one? A professional assessment is the safe next step.
Adding solar, a home battery or an EV charger changes the load on your board, and current standards often require an upgraded, RCD-protected board before or as part of the install. If your installer has said the board needs doing first, that’s why.
It’s also where being a full-service business matters: we can upgrade your board and install the solar, battery or charger it’s for, one local team, done once, compliant from day one, rather than juggling two trades and hoping they line up.
Most upgrades are a business-hours job. Your power will be off for part of the day while we swap the board over, and we’ll tell you what to expect before we start.
We check the existing board, wiring and your current and future load.
You get an upfront price and scope before any work begins.
We shut the power off safely at the main switch and remove the old board.
The new board goes in with circuit breakers and RCD safety switches across your circuits.
Every circuit is tested to confirm it works and is properly protected.
We finish with your Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work.
Sometimes a partial upgrade is enough: adding safety switches and modernising part of the board. In other cases a full replacement is the right call, usually when the board is very old, undersized, damaged or on an asbestos backing. We’ll tell you honestly which one your home needs, and why.
The meter box is often upgraded at the same time, particularly on older homes. Work that touches the meter or the incoming service may fall under Level 2 / metering scope. We’ll confirm exactly what your job needs when we quote it.
A safety switch (RCD) monitors the electricity flowing through your circuits and cuts the power within milliseconds if it detects a fault, such as current leaking to earth through a person. A working RCD typically disconnects the supply in under 300 milliseconds, fast enough to prevent a fatal shock.
It’s different from a circuit breaker: breakers protect your wiring from overload, while RCDs protect people. A safe home needs both, so every compliant upgrade includes RCD safety switches across your circuits as standard.
When the work is finished, we provide a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work (CCEW), the document that confirms the installation is safe and meets the wiring rules.
It matters for more than peace of mind. A compliance certificate is the record that the work was done to standard, which is important for your home insurance and useful if you ever sell. Every upgrade we do is licensed and certified.
Every board is different, so the honest answer is that it depends. Rather than quote a figure that won’t match your home, here’s what actually drives the cost, and we quote every upgrade properly after assessing your board, so there are no surprises.
The trade is full of choices. Here’s what you get with a local, family-run crew that lives and dies by its reputation.
We know the homes and the older boards common across Newcastle, Lake Macquarie and Maitland.
Licensed electricians, with a compliance certificate provided on every upgrade.
The one local team that can upgrade your board and install the solar, battery or EV charger it’s for.
We tell you what your home needs and what it doesn’t, no pressure, no surprises on the invoice.
Talk to a licensed local electrician, no obligation, straight answers.
The common signs are ceramic fuses instead of circuit breakers, no safety switches, power that keeps tripping, or being told you need an upgrade to add solar or an EV charger. If any of these apply, it’s worth a professional assessment or an electrical safety check.
Most upgrades are a business-hours job, with the power off for part of the day while we swap the board over. We’ll give you a clear timeframe when we quote.
Often, yes. These add load to your board, and current standards frequently require an upgraded, RCD-protected board first. We can assess this and handle both the board and the installation.
A safety switch (RCD) protects people by cutting power in milliseconds when it detects a fault. A circuit breaker protects your wiring from overload. A safe home needs both, which is why RCD safety switches are part of every compliant upgrade.
Yes. Every upgrade includes a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work, confirming the job is safe and meets the wiring rules.
It depends on your board size, its condition, your supply type and whether any meter or asbestos work is involved. We quote every job properly rather than guessing. Request a free quote and we’ll assess it.
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