Electrical

When designing or renovating a home, electrical outlets are one of those small details that make a big difference. Get the placement right, and your home will be more functional, efficient and easier to live in. Get it wrong, and you’ll be dealing with extension cords, cluttered benchtops or a constant shortage of places to plug in.

What sort of things are likely to affect the performance of your home's electrical systems? What will voltage variations do to your appliances and wiring...

Energy management dashboards or systems can be used in conjunction with smart meters to help monitor and regulate how electricity is used in your...

While smaller appliances can be casually plugged in where they fit and moved around, larger 'roughed in' appliances like ovens will often need to...

Required by law in Australia, smoke alarms are designed to detect when there's smoke in your house to help prevent fires. Find out how...

There are various other electrical safety devices that are required by law in Australia, or others again which can be added to your home...

Electricity meters are installed between your house and the mains power supply to measure how much power your home consumes.   Analogue electricity meters are now...

Switch boxes are the central hub from which all of a house's electrical systems are managed and distributed. The switch box also contains safety...

Circuit breakers are devices that help prevent damage by cutting power to a circuit if it becomes overloaded or short circuits. Circuit breakers are...

Safety switches, also known as 'residual current devices' or RCDs, are a type of switch located in your switch box that helps prevent injury...