Electricians for North Brisbane & Moreton Bay

Because it’s doing its job — something is leaking current to earth and it’s cutting the power before that goes through a person.

Common causes: a faulty appliance (kettles, dryers and old fridges are regulars), water in an outdoor point or a light fitting, or damaged cable. Nuisance tripping under load usually points at one appliance.

Unplug everything on that circuit and reset it. If it still trips, stop resetting it and call us.

Open the door and have a look. Ceramic fuses with fuse wire, no safety switches, rust, scorch marks, a missing cover, or no room left to add a circuit — any of those and it’s time.

The big one is safety switches. If there isn’t one on every circuit, or there’s only one covering the lights, the board is protecting your wiring but not you.

Send us a photo of the inside of the board and we’ll tell you straight.

Most domestic boards are a half to a full day, and yes — the power is off for most of it.

We’ll agree a start time that suits and work straight through rather than spreading it over two visits. If you work from home, or there’s a freezer full of food, tell us while we’re quoting and we’ll plan around it.

If the meter or the service cable has to be touched, Energex gets involved and we’ll explain what that adds before you commit.

Yes, and it’s a common one — patios, sheds, pool pumps, Christmas lights, the caravan.

Outdoor points need a weatherproof enclosure rated for where it’s going, and the circuit needs safety switch protection. A point under a covered patio and a point on an exposed wall are two different enclosures, so we’ll have a look at the spot before quoting.

Sheds and granny flats are often a bigger conversation — a sub-main rather than a point. We’ll tell you which one you actually need.

Yes, and it’s one of the better-value jobs going. Halogens run hot, burn a lot of power and need globes replaced constantly.

We remove the old fittings and their transformers rather than leaving them in the ceiling, and fit LED downlights with the right beam angle and colour temperature for the room — warm white where you relax, neutral where you cook.

While the ceiling is open we’ll tell you if the layout is wrong. Moving two lights often does more than replacing ten.

Yes, and it is one of the cheapest things you can do to a house. The cover plate is the part you touch and look at every day, and swapping a room’s worth of cracked, sun-yellowed ones for new white or matt black takes a fraction of the time people expect.

It is worth doing while we are there for something else — the labour is already on site, so you are mostly paying for the plates. If a plate comes off and there is something behind it we are not happy with, we’ll show you a photo and tell you what it needs before we do anything about it.

Yes. Every price we give you is the total including GST — the number on the quote is the number on the invoice.

If you need a tax invoice for a rental property or a business, just say so and we’ll make sure it’s made out correctly.

Yes — 10% off for pensioners. Mention it when you get in touch and it comes off the quote before you see it, rather than being something you have to ask about at the end.

Bring your card out on the day and we’ll have a quick look, same as anywhere else that offers it.