Switchboard Upgrades in Leichhardt

A switchboard upgrade is more than swapping the box on the wall.

Board replacement. Out with the old fuse holders, in with a modern, labelled distribution board.

RCBOs and safety switches. Circuit-level protection that trips on a fault before it becomes dangerous.

Circuit labelling. Every breaker marked clearly, so the next sparkie, or you, knows what it controls.

Fuse-to-breaker conversion. Rewireable fuses swapped for breakers that reset instead of needing a new fuse wire.

Defect rectification. Anything unsafe found behind the old board gets fixed there and then, not left for later.

Heritage terraces in Leichhardt frequently still run ceramic rewireable fuse boards that predate modern circuit protection.

It is one of the most common things we find behind the meter box on Catherine Street and the terrace rows nearby: an original board doing a job it was never built for, decades past its design life.

Swapping it out is usually the single biggest safety upgrade a period home can make, ahead of any other electrical work on the list.

1. Inspection. We look over the current setup and map out how the home's circuits run.

2. Written quote. A fixed price for the full upgrade, agreed before work begins.

3. The upgrade itself. Old fuses out, new board and breakers in, power isolated for as short a window as the job allows.

4. Testing and handover. Every circuit tested, labelled and signed off.

Most straightforward switchboard upgrades in a standard terrace are done within a day. A board tied into a bigger job, like a partial rewire, runs longer, and you will know that from the quote.

You get a board that actually protects the home it sits in, built by a Master Electricians Australia member to AS/NZS 3000, not a bare-minimum swap.

We explain what each breaker does before we leave, so the board makes sense to you, not just to us.

You also get whatever we find behind the old cover dealt with on the spot. A perished cable tail or a scorched neutral bar is common on a board this age, and we sort it as part of the upgrade rather than leaving it as a callback waiting to happen.

We fit Clipsal and Hager components on switchboard work, not the cheapest brand that happens to fit the enclosure.

A board gets opened up rarely, sometimes once in a home's lifetime, so the parts inside are worth getting right the first time.

RCBOs combine breaker and safety-switch protection on a single circuit, which means one nuisance trip on a faulty appliance no longer takes out the whole house.