Electrical Safety Check and Compliance in Melbourne
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What the Electrician Tests and Looks At During a Safety Check
An electrical safety check is a visit where a licensed electrician goes through the wiring, switchboard and fittings in your property, tests what is meant to protect you, and writes down what was found. You end up with a record of the condition of the installation and a clear list of anything that needs attention.
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Electrx is based in Brooklyn and works across Melbourne’s western suburbs, from the CBD out to Sunbury. We hold Registered Electrical Contractor licence 31135 with Energy Safe Victoria, so the check and any repair work that follows are carried out and certified by the same licensed team.
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What an Electrical Safety Check Covers
The check is a top to bottom look at the electrical installation in one property. We work through the switchboard, the protective devices, the smoke alarms, the accessible wiring and the fittings you use every day, and we test the things that are supposed to cut the power when something goes wrong.
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A two bedroom unit with a modern board is quicker than an older house that has been extended more than once. We will tell you how long we expect to be on site when you book, and we will tell you if we find something that changes that.
Your Switchboard and Fuses
The switchboard is where most of the answers are. We open it up and look at what is protecting each circuit: ceramic rewireable fuses, older style circuit breakers, or current circuit breakers and residual current devices. We check that the board is properly labelled, that connections are tight and not heat damaged, that nothing has been added into a space it does not belong in, and that the board has room for what the house is now being asked to run.
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If the board turns out to be the problem rather than a detail on the report, our switchboard upgrades page explains what replacing it involves.
Safety Switches and the Trip Test
IA safety switch, or residual current device, is the part that protects a person rather than the wiring. Energy Safe Victoria describes it this way: the safety switch monitors the flow of electricity through a circuit and detects problems that may pose a risk to personal safety, and if it detects a problem it cuts the power off within milliseconds. Source: Energy Safe Victoria, Test. Reset. Protect.. We check whether your property has them and which circuits they actually cover, because a board can have one safety switch on the power points and nothing on the lights.
We then press the test button on each device and check how it responds. A safety switch that does not trip when tested is treated as a fault on the report, not a footnote. Energy Safe Victoria asks householders to test their own safety switches every three months, and we will show you how to do it before we leave. If your board has none at all, this article on switchboards without safety switches walks through what that exposes you to.
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Smoke Alarms
We check where the smoke alarms are, whether they are hardwired or battery, whether they are interconnected, and whether they respond when tested. We also read the date printed on the unit.
Where alarms are missing, dead or badly placed, we note it on the report and can fit new ones on the same visit or a later one. Our smoke alarm installation page covers hardwired and interconnected alarms in more detail. is involved.
Wiring, Power Points and Light Fittings
We look at the wiring we can see and reach: in the roof space where access allows, at the meter box, and anywhere cable runs are exposed. We are looking for perished insulation, old rubber and cotton wiring, rodent damage, joins that were never enclosed, and cable that has been run where it should not be.
Then we work through the outlets and fittings. Power points that are cracked, loose in the wall, discoloured or warm to the touch get flagged. Light fittings, outdoor outlets, the outlets in wet areas and anything fed by an extension lead that has quietly become permanent all get looked at.
Earthing at the Switchboard
We check that the main earth is present, correctly sized and properly connected, and that the bonding to the water pipework is intact.
What Happens When We Find a Fault
We tell you what we found, where it is, and whether it needs attention now or can be planned. If something we find is dangerous to leave energised, we will say so on the spot and explain the options for making it safe before we leave.
Nothing is repaired without your say so. If you want the work done, we can quote it and book it. If you would rather take the report and think about it, that is a normal outcome and the report is yours either way. For a fault that is already causing trouble, like a breaker that keeps tripping or lights that flicker, our electrical fault finding page covers the diagnostic visit. Where the wiring itself is at the end of its life, house rewiring is the bigger conversation.
The Paperwork You Are Left With After the Safety Check
You get a written record of the check: what was inspected, what was tested, the results, and a list of anything that needs repair with our recommendation against each item.
If we carry out electrical installation work during or after the visit, that work comes with a Certificate of Electrical Safety. In Victoria a Certificate of Electrical Safety is a legal document issued by a Registered Electrical Contractor or licensed electrician to record the details of the electrical work performed, required under the Electricity Safety Act 1998 and the Electricity Safety (General) Regulations 2019. For non prescribed electrical installation work, the contractor is required to provide you with a copy within 30 days. Source: Energy Safe Victoria, Certificates of Electrical Safety for the community.
Keep the report and the certificate together. They are what you hand to an insurer, a conveyancer or an incoming renter when someone asks what condition the wiring is in.
Electrical Safety Checks Across Melbourne’s Western Suburbs
We run safety checks on homes and small commercial sites in Brooklyn, Altona, Altona North, Altona Meadows, Yarraville, Seddon, Footscray, Newport, Williamstown, Point Cook, Werribee, Hoppers Crossing, Tarneit, Truganina, Laverton, Braybrook, Sunshine North, Deer Park, Caroline Springs, Derrimut, Taylors Lakes, Kensington, Ascot Vale, Moonee Ponds, Essendon, Tullamarine, West Melbourne, Docklands, Port Melbourne, South Melbourne and the Melbourne CBD, out as far as Sunbury.
Who Books an Electrical Safety Check in Melbourne
Before You Buy a House
A building inspection will tell you about the roof and the stumps. It will not open the switchboard and test the safety switches. If the board looks original, if the listing photos show old ceramic fuses, or if the house has an obvious extension and you cannot tell who wired it, a safety check before settlement tells you what you are taking on.
After You Move Into an Older Home
If you have just taken over an older house, you have inherited someone else’s electrical decisions and you have no record of them. Energy Safe Victoria puts it plainly: if your house is over 30 years old, consider what could be behind your walls and get your wiring checked by a licensed electrician. Source: Energy Safe Victoria, Test. Reset. Protect.. A check gives you a starting point and tells you what to plan for.
Landlords and Rental Providers in Victoria
Rental providers who enter into a new agreement after 29 March 2021 must have all electrical installations and fittings checked by a licensed electrician at least once every 2 years. The check must cover all electrical installations, fixtures and fittings in accordance with section 4 of AS/NZS 3019, the periodic verification standard, and the electrician’s record must include the electrician’s name and licence or registration number, the date of the check, the results including any repairs required and actions taken, and a report prepared in accordance with section 2 of AS/NZS 3019. From 29 March 2023, all power outlets and lighting circuits in a rental premises must connect to both a switchboard type circuit breaker that complies with AS/NZS 3000 and a switchboard type residual current device that complies with AS/NZS 3190, AS/NZS 61008.1 or AS/NZS 61009.1. Source: Consumer Affairs Victoria, Rental providers: gas and electrical safety.
We do these checks for owners who manage their own rentals and for property managers running a portfolio. If your obligations are not clear to you, ask us and we will tell you what we can check and give you the record. For anything that turns on your specific agreement, Consumer Affairs Victoria is the place to confirm it.
After a Storm or a Power Surge
If lightning or a supply fault has been through the property, a general safety check is not the same visit as a damage assessment for an insurer. Surge damage has its own process and its own report, which is on our surge event damage inspections page.at make surge protection particularly important in certain areas.
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