Licensed Electricians for Chatswood Homes

This is the commercial engine of the Lower North Shore, the address people mean when they mention the region's own CBD.

Step off the main strip, though, and the residential streets tell a quieter story. Railway-era cottages and bungalows sit up on the ridges, brick and tile construction from a century-old building wave.

Around the station and the civic core, that older stock gives way fast to a dense run of high-rise apartment towers built from the 2000s onward. Old and new sit within a few streets of each other, and each end needs something different from an electrician.

Along streets like Archer Street and Anderson Street, plenty of the older houses still carry a switchboard built decades before modern heating and cooling appliances were standard kit.

Bringing one of those boards up to scratch, complete with modern circuit protection, is a job our switchboard upgrade team gets called out for constantly.

The tower end of the suburb raises a different set of questions entirely, mostly around strata compliance, shared metering and provisioning EV charging for a whole building rather than a single garage.

Getting an answer for a body corporate usually takes longer than a single homeowner's job, simply because more people need to sign off before work can start. We're used to working at that pace and providing the documentation a strata meeting will ask for.

Beyond the board itself, three more issues keep showing up on inspection.

A short inspection usually tells us which of these three is in play, which is why we start there rather than pricing blind over the phone.

None of the three are unusual for a suburb with this much older housing stock, and none of them need to be tackled at once. We can sequence the work so the most pressing item goes first.

Cool winters up on this elevated ridge keep demand for reverse-cycle heating steady, and that has a flow-on effect for switchboards.

Adding a heating circuit onto an older board that's already carrying a full modern load is a common reason we're asked to check capacity before the cold really sets in, rather than during it.

Sorting the board ahead of a cold snap tends to be a far smaller job than an emergency callout once it's already tripping. It's a five-minute check that saves a cold night waiting on a callout.

1. You call or message. Tell us the symptom, the property type and roughly how old the building is.
2. You get a written figure. Agreed up front, whether it's a house or a unit.
3. We do the job. Compliant work, tested to AS/NZS 3000 wiring rules before we leave.
4. The paperwork follows. Certification for anything notifiable, sorted before we leave the property.