Level 2 Electrician for Eastwood Homes

Level 2 is the work between the network and your house. Everything from the pole or the pit up to and including your meter is a separate accreditation, and a normal electrical licence does not cover any of it.

Here is what falls on our side of that line.

Extensions are what drive this work in Eastwood. Heritage-era houses here keep getting more rooms and far more appliances, and the mains feeding them were sized for a much smaller life.

The board gets the blame, but sometimes the board is innocent. If the cable coming into the house is the bottleneck, upgrading what it feeds achieves precisely nothing.

Then the wall decides the rest of it. Where an overhead line lands is a structural question, and Eastwood is a patchwork of solid masonry, brick veneer and weatherboard.

Weatherboard means fixing to the frame behind it, and brick veneer means reaching through a skin that holds up nothing but itself.

Solid double-brick will take an attachment almost anywhere, which is the one thing the old stock makes easy.

Hillview Road runs past the library at number 6 and on through exactly this sort of housing, which is why the answer changes house by house rather than street by street.

One customer, Daichi, said we worked through his list of particular requests without any fuss. On Level 2, that list is usually about where things land.

Most Level 2 jobs are a single day, and a fair number are a morning. A supply upgrade with new metering and board work behind it usually spans two.

1. We look at the whole run. Connection point, cable, attachment, meter, and the board it feeds, because pricing one without the others is guesswork.
2. You get it in writing. Scope, price, and a plain-English explanation of which bits are ours and which the network controls.
3. We do the work. Supply isolated, mains or attachment or metering renewed, and the power off for the shortest window we can manage.
4. We test, certify and notify. Tested before we sign off, your certificate issued, and the paperwork the network needs lodged by us.

Plenty of outfits will do the board and leave you to find someone for the mains. We are accredited to work on the local network, so the whole thing is one job, one quote, one crew.

That matters on the day the power comes off. Nobody is standing in your driveway blaming another trade for the delay.

Where the choice is ours it is name-brand switchgear, not cheap imports. A meter panel lives outside in the weather, and that is exactly where the budget stuff gives up first.