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Switchboard Upgrades in Frankston South from Impulse Electrical Contractors, based nearby in Dromana and servicing the wider Mornington Peninsula. Around the elevated bayside streets, the local shops and the coastal outlook over the bay, brick veneer family homes, elevated bayside properties, architect-designed rebuilds and renovated extensions need electrical work that is safe, tidy and suited to local conditions.
Call 0418 383 232Frankston South switchboards are usually the original board in a brick veneer family home. Many of those houses were built before safety switches were required, so the enclosure is still fuses or a small breaker board with no spare way. A renovation or an architect-designed rebuild is the other job: new circuits for a kitchen and an extension land on a board that was never sized for them. Impulse Electrical Contractors upgrades both, from our Dromana base.
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 Frankston South, 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.
We open the board, the meter panel and the earthing before naming the work. An original brick veneer house is not assumed to match a rebuild. You leave with labelled breakers, tested safety switches and a Certificate of Electrical Safety (COES). Call 0418 383 232.
On an original home the job is usually the whole enclosure. The fuse board comes out, safety switches go on power and lighting, and the new board has room for the circuits the house now needs. On a renovation we look at what the builder is adding: the kitchen, the extension, the deck circuit and any split system. We do not add another breaker to a board that has no spare way, and we do not leave the old board in place because the plaster is new.
The Frankston South page already says switchboard upgrades are a common job, particularly in homes built before modern safety switch requirements. That is the brick veneer house whose board was never built for a second air conditioner or a charger. A renovation does not remove that limit. New lights and a new kitchen still need an enclosure that can feed them. Both need the board opened.
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Many do. The suburb page says switchboard upgrades are common in homes built before modern safety switch requirements. We confirm what is on the wall rather than assuming every house on an elevated street has already been upgraded.
Only if it has spare ways, safety switches and enough capacity for the new circuits. A kitchen, an extension and a deck circuit often will not fit. We look before the walls are closed, and we say when the board is part of the renovation.
Yes. An architect-designed rebuild can have a new enclosure, or it can be asked to run off a supply that was never upgraded with the house. We check the meter, the mains and the earthing rather than judging the board by the new plaster.
Power is off while the old board is disconnected and the new one is terminated and tested, usually for part of one day. On a renovation we agree the window with you or your builder so the rest of the work can be planned around it.
