Send a photo of your board and get a fixed price for Newport before anyone comes out. Electrical3 is based in Cromer, minutes from Newport, and this is work we do across the Northern Beaches every week.
Every figure below is what we install for, including GST.
| What | Price inc GST | What it covers |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed price from a photo | Free | Send a photo of the board and the meter. You get the price before anyone comes out. |
| Making room in a full board | $150 to $400 | Where the board is otherwise sound and just has no spare position. |
| Safety switches added | Quoted with the board | RCBOs on the circuits that need them, priced as part of the job. |
| Surge protection, same visit | $397 single phase $638 three phase | Cheapest while the board is already open, rather than a separate call-out. |
| Full board replacement | Quoted before we start | Ceramic fuses, no safety switches, or a board at the end of its life. |
Beach houses take the weather from both sides: salt in the air outside and decades of small additions inside. The board is usually where both show up first — corroded enclosures on an external wall, and a fuse panel quietly carrying circuits nobody has a record of.
A mix that changes street by street — older beach cottages, newer builds, and apartment blocks along Barrenjoey Road. That mix means the work splits between full switchboard upgrades in houses and strata jobs where the fault sits somewhere between the meter room and the unit.
External and semi-exposed boards pitting and corroding in the salt air
Circuits added room by room over decades, with no schedule of what feeds what
Long sub-mains to boatsheds, studios and lower-level decks running off a board never sized for them
Not always. If the board has ceramic fuses, no safety switches, or no spare positions left, it is holding the house back and usually needs replacing. If it is sound and simply full, making room is $150 to $400. Send a photo and we will tell you which one you have before you commit to anything.
We do not publish one figure because boards are not one job — a tidy modern board needing two extra circuits and a 1960s fuse panel with no earth are different pieces of work. What we do instead is price it from a photo, in writing, before we come out. Making room in an otherwise sound board is $150 to $400.
Beach houses take the weather from both sides: salt in the air outside and decades of small additions inside. The board is usually where both show up first — corroded enclosures on an external wall, and a fuse panel quietly carrying circuits nobody has a record of. A mix that changes street by street — older beach cottages, newer builds, and apartment blocks along Barrenjoey Road. That mix means the work splits between full switchboard upgrades in houses and strata jobs where the fault sits somewhere between the meter room and the unit.
Somebody needs to let us in, and the power is off for part of the day — usually two to four hours for a straightforward replacement. We tell you the window before the day rather than on it.
Yes. Every job gets a certificate of compliance, and the board is left labelled so the next person can see what feeds what. NSW contractor licence 270174C, and a 25 year workmanship guarantee.
That is the cheapest way to do both. The board is already open, the visit is already happening, and a charger needs its own protected circuit anyway. See EV charger installation in Newport.
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