Frenchs Forest Switchboard Upgrades, Done Properly

A switchboard upgrade covers more than swapping the box on the wall. Depending on what's behind it, the job can touch the circuit layout, the earthing and every safety switch feeding the house.

Board replacement and RCBOs. A full board swap onto a modern enclosure, with RCBOs fitted on every circuit rather than the bare minimum.

Fuse-to-breaker conversion. Old rewireable fuses come out, replaced with circuit breakers that trip safely instead of arcing under fault current.

Circuit labelling and testing. Every circuit gets tested, mapped and clearly labelled, so the next person working on the board knows exactly what's what.

Defect rectification. Anything that doesn't meet standard behind the old enclosure gets sorted in the same visit, not flagged for a follow-up.

Capacity for extra circuits. Room added for whatever comes next, whether that's a renovation, a granny flat or more power points down the track.

Frenchs Forest's housing stock is mostly detached homes from the 1960s to 80s Forest District expansion, and plenty still run their original switchboard. On streets like Naree Road, that means ceramic fuse carriers doing a job they were never sized for, in a household now running a lot more than a fridge and a lamp.

Ceramic fuses don't fail the way a modern breaker does. Rather than tripping cleanly, they run hot, and a blown one is often just replaced with another fuse of the same rating.

Moving a board like that onto breakers and RCBOs comes up on Frenchs Forest jobs more than almost anything else we quote.

1. Assessment and quote. We look over what's currently installed, tally up the circuits it needs to carry, and give you a fixed price in writing before anything is switched off.

2. Power isolated safely. We agree timing with you first, since the whole house goes without power for part of the day.

3. New board fitted and tested. The new board, RCBOs and labelling go in, and every circuit is tested before we sign off.

4. Signed off and tested. Every circuit is tested, the paperwork proving it's compliant is issued, and the switchboard is left clean and clearly labelled.

Master Electricians Australia membership means our benchmark sits above the bare licence minimum, and it shows in the finish, not just the paperwork.

The old board and fuse carriers are removed properly, the new one is labelled clearly, and the work area is left clean.

One customer who needed careful cabling for a home sauna install told us we mapped every run with real care, and called the whole job polite, professional and fairly priced.