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Yes. Voltway Electrical takes urgent calls for faults like a board that will not reset, exposed wiring or a total loss of power. What a callout costs depends on the time of day and how urgent the job is, and after-hours or weekend work is generally priced above a weekday booking. Ask for a straight phone quote before anyone is booked, so the number is agreed before we arrive.

Queensland law requires safety switches on power and lighting circuits in most homes, and separate legislation has been phasing in interconnected photoelectric smoke alarms in every bedroom, hallway and level of a home, with the exact requirement depending on when the property was built, sold, leased or renovated. Those rules have changed several times and continue to be updated, so confirm what currently applies to your property with the Queensland Electrical Safety Office or Queensland Fire Department. We can check your home against the current requirement while we are there.

Flickering usually comes from a loose connection at the switch, the fitting or the switchboard, an older dimmer that was never designed for LED globes, or a circuit sharing a run with an appliance that keeps switching on and off. It is worth having looked at rather than left, because a loose connection carrying current turns into a heat risk over time.

The usual signs are ceramic fuses instead of circuit breakers, no safety switch fitted, breakers that trip again and again, scorching or a burning smell near the board, or no spare capacity left for something new like an EV charger or solar. Plenty of older Brisbane homes are still running their original board, and an on-site look at it is the only reliable way to know.

Some jobs away from the switchboard, like adding a power point on an isolated circuit, can go ahead with only that circuit switched off rather than the whole house. Anything at the board itself, such as fitting a safety switch or replacing the board, needs that section powered down before anyone touches it. We tell you upfront what will be off and roughly for how long, so you can plan around it.

A rewire on an average-sized home usually runs from a few days to about two weeks. It depends on how easy the walls and roof space are to get into, whether anyone is living in the house while the work happens, and how much of the existing wiring can stay. A realistic timeframe is only possible after someone has seen the property.

A compliance certificate, called a Certificate of Testing and Safety in Queensland, is the document confirming that electrical work has been tested and meets the required safety standard. It is required for most electrical work carried out in a home. We issue one as part of the job wherever the work calls for it, and you get a copy for your records.

Yes. An EV charger install means running a dedicated circuit from the switchboard to the charging point, sized correctly for the charger, and checking the board has enough spare capacity to carry it safely. If the existing board is old or already close to its limit, a switchboard upgrade needs to happen first, and we will say so before quoting the charger.

A quote sets out the scope of the work, what it will cost and roughly how long it will take, so you know what you are agreeing to before anything starts. Most domestic jobs can be quoted over the phone. Larger work like a rewire or a switchboard replacement is quoted after a look at the property, because guessing at it helps nobody.

In Queensland, electrical work has to be carried out or supervised by a licensed electrician, and that includes swapping a light fitting, a power point or a switch. Beyond the compliance side of it, a circuit that is live or wired differently to what you expect is a genuine safety risk, and the fault is not always visible from the front of the plate.

It depends on whether there is already a wired point in the ceiling to connect to, the height and pitch of the ceiling, and whether a separate wall switch is being added. Once we know what is already up there, we can usually give you a price over the phone.

Yes, fault finding is one of the most common callouts we take. A circuit that trips repeatedly is pointing at something specific: an overloaded circuit, a faulty appliance, or a wiring or connection problem. We test the circuit methodically to isolate the cause rather than guessing at it, then explain what we found in plain terms before any repair goes ahead.