Electrician Katoomba

Local electricians for Katoomba homes, day or night

Katoomba’s older homes were never wired for electric heating, a modern kitchen and a houseful of devices. When the board trips every time the heater goes on, or the lights flicker through a foggy week, you need an electrician in Katoomba who has seen it before. Our licensed electricians are on call at any hour.

Every job is priced before work starts. Evening and weekend rates differ, so we give you the price for your visit before we start.

What electrical problems are common in Katoomba homes?

Many Katoomba cottages still run ceramic fuses, or a board with no safety switch on the lighting and power circuits. A safety switch is a device that cuts power in a fraction of a second when current leaks to earth, which can happen through a person. An upgrade puts safety switches on every circuit and leaves room for the loads a winter home needs. Our switchboard upgrade work is priced as a fixed job.

Katoomba spends long stretches in cloud and fog, and moisture finds its way into outdoor fittings, junction boxes and the backs of old power points. The result is a safety switch that trips at random. We use methodical fault tracing to find the circuit and the cause, rather than resetting and hoping.

Homes built before the 1960s may still carry rubber-insulated cable, which turns brittle with age. If we find it, we show you where it runs and quote to replace it room by room, starting with the circuits that carry the heaviest load.

Signs your board needs attention

• A safety switch that trips again after you reset it
• Lights that flicker or dim when a heater starts
• A switchboard that feels warm or smells of burning
• Ceramic fuses, or no safety switches at all

Licensed electricians from a family business

Aussie Home Services was founded in 2009 by a qualified electrician and is still run by the same family. Our electrician Katoomba team is licensed under NSW contractor licence 273594C and fully insured.

We quote a fixed price before we begin and charge no call-out fee when the booking is for the following day or later. We are plumbers too, so a job that crosses trades, like a hot water unit that needs a new circuit, can be handled in one visit with our Katoomba plumbing team.

The Aussie Home Services Difference

Every job we do in Katoomba comes with the same six things.

NSW contractor licence 273594C, fully insured

On call 24 hours a day, every day of the year

Price agreed before any work starts

$0 call-out fee when booked for the following day or later

Lifetime labour guarantee covering defective workmanship

24/7 emergency response in Katoomba and across the Blue Mountains

Electrical work in Katoomba cottages, guesthouses and holiday lets

Katoomba grew as a resort town, and its streets still carry the timber cottages, brick guesthouses and converted holiday homes of that era. Many have been renovated in stages, so it is common to open a ceiling and find three generations of wiring side by side.

Most Katoomba homes are separate houses, so the board and the meter box belong to one owner. A third are rented, and landlords must keep smoke alarms working. About one dwelling in six was empty on Census night. That fits the holiday lets and second homes near the old guesthouse streets.

A reverse cycle system or a bank of panel heaters can double the load an old board was built for, and cold snaps are when overloaded circuits fail. We size new circuits for a Katoomba winter, not a Sydney one.

A switchboard is the panel that splits the incoming power into circuits and holds the circuit breakers and safety switches.

Electrician Katoomba: which switchboard does a home have?

Plenty of homes also have a detached studio or a garage turned into a spare room, often fed by a single run from the house. We check those runs for capacity and safety switch protection, because they are a common source of overloads once a heater goes in.

Guests in a holiday rental do not know where the switchboard is, so interconnected smoke alarms on every level and clearly labelled safety switches are worth checking between bookings.

We cover Katoomba, Leura and Medlow Bath, and our Blue Mountains electricians reach the rest of the ridge. In the mid mountains, our electricians in Springwood look after the lower towns.