Electrician Mount Eliza

Mount Eliza is large blocks, heavy tree cover and long distances between the street and the house. That geography produces a set of electrical problems you rarely see in a suburban street.

Overhead service lines and tree contact

Many properties here are fed by an overhead service running some distance from the street, through or near mature trees. Branch contact causes intermittent faults that are almost impossible to diagnose from inside the house: lights flickering in wind, equipment resetting, faults that come and go with the weather. If the symptom tracks the weather, the cause is outside. It is also not something to leave, because a line being abraded by a branch eventually fails.

Long driveways and distant outbuildings

Sheds, studios, stables and pool plant on a block this size sit a long way from the board. A submain of forty, sixty or a hundred metres sized for its original purpose will drop voltage once the load grows, and the equipment at the far end runs poorly and fails early. Correct cable sizing over distance is the whole job here, and it is the thing most often got wrong.

Pumps, tanks and water systems

Properties on tank water or with irrigation run pumps, and pump circuits are outdoors, wet and frequently old. They are also the circuits most likely to cause persistent safety switch tripping. Getting the protection right matters more than on almost any other circuit in a house.

Bushland interface

Where properties back onto bush, the condition of external electrical equipment carries a consequence beyond inconvenience. Corroded or damaged fittings, and cable damaged by rodents or weather, deserve inspection on a cycle rather than attention after a failure.

Larger homes, accumulated systems

The substantial houses here tend to have gates, garden lighting, climate control and pool plant installed at different times by different people, with no record of what controls what. Documenting and labelling the boards is the unglamorous job that makes everything after it faster.

Getting to you

Mount Eliza is close to an hour from Hawthorn East, and we plan accordingly. Scheduled work gets a firm window and we keep it. For a fault, we will tell you honestly on the phone whether it is today or tomorrow morning rather than leaving you waiting. The line is answered 24 hours.