Electrician Wollstonecraft

A licensed electrician for Wollstonecraft units and homes

A circuit that keeps cutting out, or a smoke alarm that chirps all night, needs a licensed electrician in Wollstonecraft. Our electrician Wollstonecraft team takes calls at any hour, day or night.

We price every job before work starts. The figure is fixed once you approve it. Evening and weekend rates differ, so we quote your visit before we begin.

Which electrical faults turn up in Wollstonecraft’s flats and homes?

The 2021 Census counted 3,031 flats or apartments among Wollstonecraft’s 3,820 occupied homes. A switchboard is the panel that splits power into circuits. It holds a breaker for each circuit and, in a newer board, the safety switches.

A safety switch is a device that cuts power in a split second when current leaks to earth. When one won’t stay on, hunting down the faulty circuit beats resetting it again and again. A board with ceramic fuses needs a look before new load goes on. So does one with no safety switch on its power and lighting circuits.

We quote replacing an old board as a fixed job.

Signs your board needs attention

• A breaker that trips again within minutes of a reset
• A power point that feels warm or looks marked by heat
• A fizzing or crackling sound near the board
• Lights that flicker when a big appliance starts

If a power point is warm or marked by heat, stop using it. Turn it off at the board, then call us.

Licensed electricians, family owned since 2009

Aussie Home Services is family owned and has worked across Sydney since 2009. Our electricians work under NSW contractor licence 273594C. It covers electrical work, and we’re fully insured.

We fix the price before we begin. No call-out fee applies when the booking is for the following day or later. The Lifetime Labour Guarantee covers labour if our workmanship causes a failure and the work is defective. Parts aren’t covered.

The Aussie Home Services Difference

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

Licensed under NSW contractor licence 273594C, with full insurance

Available around the clock, seven days a week

No surprises: the price is set before we begin

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

Workmanship backed by the Lifetime Labour Guarantee

A local team for Wollstonecraft and the North Shore

We’re 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 Wollstonecraft plumbing team.

Electrician Wollstonecraft: renters, trees and flats

North Sydney Council calls Berry Island Reserve an area of harbourside bushland. The small peninsula in Wollstonecraft is linked to the mainland by a wide grassed causeway.

Trees and wires come with rules. If Ausgrid supplies your home, it says you’re responsible for clearing growth from a tree on your own property that affects your service wire, up to your boundary. Ausgrid says it clears vegetation on council land. It also says any trimming near its powerlines must be done by accredited workers.

North Sydney Council has its own rule for private land. Its page on when you need a permit lists these trees on private land. They are more than 5 metres high, have a crown width of more than 5 metres, or have a trunk circumference of more than 500 millimetres at ground level. It also lists Camphor Laurel and Celtis trees more than 10 metres.

Renters held 1,874 of those homes. NSW says a landlord must replace a smoke alarm within 10 years of manufacture, or sooner if the maker says. A hard-wired one needs a licensed electrician.

NSW lists some exceptions for strata homes. There, the tenancy agreement shows whether the owners corporation, the landlord or the agent can arrange the work. We do hard-wired smoke alarm work in Wollstonecraft.

Electrician Wollstonecraft: who do I call first?

Other suburbs we cover include North Sydney, Crows Nest, St Leonards and Waverton. See the other suburbs our North Shore electricians cover.