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Home Electrical Services in Berwick
Powerpoints, switchboards, smoke alarms, fault finding and repairs, all handled by one licensed local electrician. Priced before the work starts.
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Reliable Electrical Work for Your Home
From adding powerpoints and replacing smoke alarms to fault finding and switchboard upgrades, Ontrack Electrical provides electrical services across Berwick and Melbourne’s south east.
Whether something has stopped working or you’re upgrading your home, we’ll inspect the existing electrical setup, explain what needs to be done and make sure the work is completed safely and to the right standard.
Small jobs are just as welcome as larger upgrades, and you’ll always know what the work will cost before we get started. Get in touch for a free quote.
Get A Free QuoteWhat We Handle Around the House
Powerpoints
Stop running the house on double adaptors and extension leads. New outlets where you use them, and replacements for any that have worn out or gone warm.
View PowerpointsSwitchboard Upgrades & Safety Switches
Replace an old board with modern breakers, safety switches on every circuit and room to add more later, all clearly labelled.
View Switchboard Upgrades & Safety SwitchesSmoke Alarms
Replace alarms that have passed their service life or will not stop chirping, so the ones in your house actually work when they matter.
View Smoke AlarmsElectrical Fault Finding
Find out what is really behind a tripping switch or a dead circuit, instead of resetting it and waiting for it to happen again.
View Electrical Fault FindingElectrical Repairs & Maintenance
Fix the switches, outlets and fittings that have stopped working, and check the things that quietly stop working without anyone noticing.
View Electrical Repairs & MaintenanceAppliance Installation
Get ovens, cooktops, rangehoods and other hardwired appliances connected properly and safely, on a circuit that can carry them.
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Straightforward Advice From a Local Electrician
Electrical problems aren’t always obvious from the surface. That’s why we take the time to test the circuit, find the actual cause of the problem and explain what we’ve found before recommending a repair.
You’ll know what needs to be done and what it will cost. If your existing switchboard, wiring or fittings are still safe and suitable, we’ll tell you that too instead of replacing something unnecessarily.
- Fully licensed and insured electrical contractor in Victoria
- Faults properly tested and traced before repairs begin
- Straight advice on repairing or replacing existing electrical work
- A clear quote before any work begins
What Our Customers Say
- Meg B Customer
Liam was very helpful and friendly! I needed to upgrade my switchboard and he made the process very easy and did a great job.
Google - Sam C Customer
Liam was very professional and efficient. We needed some rewiring done which he did exactly what we needed. Easy to communicate with and cleaned up after himself. Highly recommend his work.
Google - Tania J Customer
Liam is polite, professional and competent. He arrived on time, sourced the problem quickly and gave great advice on the best solution. Very reasonable price, highly recommend
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Send through the list of what needs doing around the house.. Contact Ontrack Electrical for a free quote.
- Phone 0481 272 355
- Service Area Berwick & Melbourne's South East
Home Electrical Questions
The everyday electrical work a house needs. Adding and replacing powerpoints, switchboard upgrades and safety switches, smoke alarm replacement, tracing and repairing faults, general repairs and maintenance, and connecting appliances that need hardwiring rather than a plug.
It is worth looking at if the board still has ceramic fuses, has no safety switches, or has no spare positions left to add a circuit. If it already has circuit breakers, safety switches and room to grow, we will tell you it is fine, not sell you a new one.
Leave that circuit off instead of resetting it repeatedly, because the switch is telling you current is leaking somewhere it should not. If it stays on once you unplug a particular appliance, that appliance is the likely cause. If it trips again straight away with nothing plugged in, it needs testing.
In most cases yes. Where there is accessible roof or subfloor space, new cable can usually be run without cutting into wall linings. Some positions do need patching, and if that applies we tell you before the work starts rather than after.
It depends on the job and on how the existing wiring has been run, which is why we look before quoting instead of guessing over the phone. Adding an outlet on an accessible wall is straightforward. A switchboard upgrade or a fault buried in a wall takes longer. Quotes are free.
We are based in Berwick and cover the City of Casey, Cardinia Shire and the Baw Baw Shire towns of Drouin and Warragul. That includes Narre Warren, Cranbourne, Clyde, Endeavour Hills, Hampton Park, Hallam, Officer, Pakenham, Beaconsfield, Emerald, Gembrook and Bunyip.
Home Electrical Work Explained
Powerpoints That Have Failed or Run Out
Outlets wear out. The internal contacts loosen after years of plugs going in and out, which shows up as a plug that falls out under its own weight, warmth around the faceplate or discolouration on the plastic. Any of those is worth replacing instead of living with.
Another common request is simply not having enough. Homes built before everyone had a home office, several devices charging and appliances in every corner run short, and the gap gets filled with double adaptors and leads across the floor. Adding outlets where you actually use them removes all of that.
View Powerpoints →Switchboards, Safety Switches and Capacity
A switchboard has two jobs: protect the circuits, and give you somewhere to add more. Older boards with ceramic fuses do neither well. They offer no residual current protection, and they are usually full, so there is no position left for air conditioning, an EV charger or a shed supply.
An upgrade replaces that with circuit breakers and safety switches across every circuit, spare capacity for what comes next, and labelling that makes sense. It is also the point at which years of accumulated wiring gets tidied up and identified.
View Switchboard Upgrades & Safety Switches →Smoke Alarms and What Actually Fails
Smoke alarms have a service life and stop being reliable well before they stop making noise. The chirping most people put up with is usually the alarm telling you it has reached the end of it, not that it wants another battery.
Replacing them is quick work, and it is worth doing across the whole house at once so they are all on the same replacement cycle instead of failing one at a time over several years.
View Smoke Alarms →Finding Faults and Making Repairs
An electrical fault rarely announces itself where the damage is. A tripping safety switch tells you a circuit is leaking current, but the leak could be a cracked outdoor powerpoint, a failing hot water element, a nail through a cable, or a light fitting that has taken in water from the roof.
Fault finding narrows that down. We isolate each circuit at the switchboard, test them one at a time and reconnect appliances progressively until the fault reappears. From there the repair is a known quantity, priced before it happens, not after.
View Electrical Fault Finding →Connecting Appliances Properly
Ovens, cooktops, rangehoods and some laundry appliances are hardwired rather than plugged in, and several of them draw enough current to need a circuit of their own. Running a new appliance off whatever outlet happens to be nearby is how circuits end up overloaded.
We check what the appliance requires, confirm the switchboard can carry it, and connect it on a suitable circuit. If a new circuit is needed, that is quoted up front as part of the job.
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