Most old switchboards were set up for a home with gas cooking, gas hot water and a handful of lighting and power circuits. Go all-electric and you might add five or six heavy circuits. The board is where all of that has to fit, safely.
Ring 0421 772 661 for a written quote. A clear photo of your switchboard with the door open, and the meter box, tells us a lot.
Older Inner West switchboards often have rewireable ceramic fuses, a mix of breakers added over the years, limited or no safety switch protection, and an asbestos-backed panel. Even newer boards are frequently full. There is nowhere to put the extra circuits that induction, a heat pump, air conditioning and an EV charger each need.
Squeezing circuits onto an unsuitable board, or doubling up loads on one breaker, is how nuisance tripping and overheating start. When several appliances are changing, it usually makes sense to replace the board once, properly, rather than patch it each time. Our guide to the signs you need a switchboard upgrade covers the warning signs.
We lay out the new board for what you will have in a few years, not just this month. That means listing every expected large load and leaving room for it, even if the appliance comes later.
Spaces for cooktop, oven, hot water, each split system, EV charger and any future additions.
One fault trips one circuit, not half the house. See RCD vs RCBO.
Checked against the combined load. A bigger enclosure doesn't increase what the supply can deliver.
Space and labelling for an inverter or battery connection. See solar and battery ready boards.
Worth considering with expensive inverters and appliances. See surge protection.
Some EV chargers can reduce charging when the house is busy, which can avoid a supply upgrade.
A new switchboard gives you space and modern protection. It doesn't, on its own, increase the power available from the street. That is set by the network connection, the service fuse and the consumer mains cable. If your combined load is more than the supply can sensibly carry, the options are to manage the load or apply to Ausgrid for a supply upgrade, which involves an Accredited Service Provider for the network side. Our supply capacity check page explains how we work it out.
Three-phase is not automatically the answer. It suits some larger homes and heavy loads, but many single-phase houses electrify comfortably.
Power is off for most of a day. We remove the old board (asbestos-backed panels are handled with the right precautions), fit the new enclosure, reconnect and label each circuit, test everything to AS/NZS 3000 and issue a Certificate of Compliance for Electrical Work. Existing circuits that fail insulation testing are flagged so you know before the new appliances arrive.
See our new switchboard with RCBOs in Rozelle and the switchboard upgrade cost guide.
Not always, but most older boards lack the space or protection for several heavy new circuits. We check yours first.
No. It gives you space and safer protection. Available power depends on your supply from Ausgrid.
Ideally plan the board first, so every future circuit has a place and cables are sized correctly.
Usually most of a working day for a standard house. We confirm timing in the quote.
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