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Switchboard Upgrades in Dromana from Impulse Electrical Contractors, based right here in Dromana and servicing the wider Mornington Peninsula. Around Point Nepean Road, the foreshore and the Arthurs Seat foothills, fibro beach houses, hillside estate homes, holiday properties and Point Nepean Road shopfronts need electrical work that is safe, tidy and suited to local conditions.
Call 0418 383 232Dromana’s housing runs from 1950s–70s fibro and weatherboard beach houses along the foreshore to renovated family homes and newer estates up towards Arthurs Seat. A large share of the older homes still run on the original switchboard — ceramic fuses, no safety switches and no spare capacity — which is the single most common thing we are called to fix in our home suburb.
If your lights flicker, breakers trip or the board still has ceramic fuses, it is time to upgrade before adding more electrical load. We replace old fuse boxes with modern circuit breakers, safety switches and labelled circuits, then test the installation and provide a Certificate of Electrical Safety. This is especially important before installing EV chargers, air conditioning, induction cooking, workshop outlets or major renovations. In Dromana, older homes and renovated properties often reach the limit of the original board quickly, so we check capacity, earthing and meter panel condition before recommending the right upgrade. Impulse Electrical is fully licensed — A Grade A53308 and REC 25266 — with $25M public liability and a Certificate of Electrical Safety supplied on every job.
Because Impulse Electrical is based in Dromana, a switchboard job here rarely waits long for a site visit. We inspect the board, meter panel and earthing first, explain what actually needs changing, and leave a labelled, tested board with a Certificate of Electrical Safety (COES) for your records or your property manager.
Most upgrades start with a look at the existing board. In Dromana that often means a rewirable ceramic fuse board in a fibro beach house, or a first-generation breaker board in a 1980s–90s hillside home that has since picked up a heat pump, an induction cooktop and a home office. The upgrade replaces the fuse or breaker assembly with a modern enclosure, individual circuit breakers and safety switch (RCD) protection on the final subcircuits, with every circuit clearly labelled.
Frequent tripping when the kettle and heater run together, warm or discoloured fuse holders, lights dimming when the air conditioner starts, or a board with no safety switches are all signs the original installation has reached its limit. Holiday rentals around the foreshore are a special case: a board that trips while guests are in the house is a booking problem as well as a safety one, so owners often upgrade before the summer season.
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Often, yes. Many foreshore homes still have ceramic fuse boards with no spare circuits and no safety switches. Adding a split system or EV charger to a board like that is unsafe and usually not compliant, so the board is upgraded first and the new circuit is added at the same time.
Typically the power is off for part of one day while the old board is removed and the new one is fitted and tested. We let you know the expected window beforehand so fridges, freezers and home offices can be planned around it.
Yes. A COES is issued for every switchboard upgrade. It is the document your insurer, a property manager or a future buyer will ask for.
That is exactly what we plan for. We size the enclosure and check supply capacity so the common Peninsula additions — EV charging, heat pump hot water, a workshop circuit — can be added later without another rebuild.
