Commercial electrician in Melbourne's south-east and the CBD

• Older strip-shop buildings have a supply problem, not a wiring problem. Burke Road, High Street, Glenferrie Road and Chapel Street are full of tenancies carved up decades ago, with supply arrangements to match.
• A cafe moving into an old clothing shop is the classic. A three-group coffee machine, a dishwasher and refrigeration land in a tenancy provisioned for a till and some downlights.
• Get the supply checked before the lease is signed. It is a short visit, and it has saved clients from committing to a space that could never have carried their kitchen.
• Emergency and exit lighting runs on a six-monthly cycle under AS 2293.2, including a discharge test on battery for the rated duration.
• The log matters as much as the test. An auditor or insurer wants the record, not your word that it was done.
• Safety switches and portable equipment fall under AS/NZS 3760, on intervals that vary by environment. An office, a commercial kitchen and a construction site are not on the same cycle.
• Unowned compliance surfaces at the worst possible moment. Usually during an insurance review or after an incident, when the last record turns out to be four years old.
• On a lighting changeover, access drives the price. A warehouse with fifteen metre ceilings needs a scissor lift and a traffic plan, which costs more than the fittings.
• Out of hours is usually cheaper than losing a trading day. We schedule around your hours where it makes sense and tell you what that changes about the price up front.
• Restore trade first, repair permanently second. Isolating a failed circuit and getting the rest of the site running is usually quick, with the full repair booked for normal hours.
• Three parties, and only one of them is paying. The tenant reports the fault, the building manager controls access, and the owners corporation approves anything touching common property.
• Tell us who authorises the spend and who holds the keys. Jobs stall in the gap between those three far more often than they stall on the work itself.

Commercial electrical contractors who work around your trading hours

Commercial electrical contractors get judged on two things: whether the work is compliant, and whether your site kept trading. We are a Registered Electrical Contractor, REC 20101, and we plan jobs around your hours, with evening, early morning and weekend work available for retail and hospitality.

The commercial electrical services we are called for most are switchboards and distribution, three phase supply and machinery, exit and emergency lighting, test and tag, fitouts and lighting upgrades. Each has its own page below.

Commercial and industrial electrical contractors: warehouses, workshops and plant

Commercial and industrial electrical work is mostly a supply problem: motors, machines and lighting on a supply that was sized for something else. We check maximum demand, balance the phases and design the lighting layout around the racking and the work, not the roof. A warehouse or workshop gets the same written scope as an office. See commercial lighting installation and three phase power and machinery.

Commercial electrician near me: where we work

Whether you search for electrical contractors Melbourne wide, electrical contractors near me or commercial electricians near me, the question is the same: who can be on site this week and knows the strip you are on. We work from Hawthorn East across the inner east, the inner south, the south-east and the CBD, including Hawthorn, Camberwell, South Yarra, Richmond, Melbourne CBD and Burwood.

We are a commercial electrical company that does the work itself. Commercial electrical companies vary in how much they subcontract, and with us you deal with the electrician who quoted it.