24/7 Emergency Electrician in Chullora

Any of these: a burning smell from a switchboard, GPO or light fitting; sparks or an audible buzz from an outlet; a safety switch that trips again immediately after you reset it; exposed live wiring after a break-in, storm or renovation; a complete power outage that is only affecting your property (not the street); water dripping through a ceiling near a light fitting; or a downed powerline on private property. If someone has had an electric shock, disconnect at the main switch first, then call.

Our target is on-site within 90 minutes of the call being confirmed, day or night, for the core service area (Bankstown, Condell Park, Yagoona, Bass Hill, Chullora, Greenacre, Punchbowl, Revesby, Padstow, Panania, Milperra, Picnic Point). It is often faster in the middle of the night when there is no traffic. We confirm your ETA when you call so you know exactly what to expect.

Yes — an after-hours callout covers the travel and diagnostic time whether the fault is in the wiring or in a plugged-in appliance. Roughly a third of emergency calls turn out to be a failed appliance (dishwasher element, kettle, cheap phone charger, faulty pool pump) rather than a house wiring fault. We tell you which it is, isolate the offending circuit or appliance, and give you clear next steps.

No. If the outage is affecting neighbours as well, it is an Ausgrid (network) issue, not a wiring fault at your property. Report it to Ausgrid on 13 13 88 and wait for their crew. Call us only if power is restored to the street but not to your house, or if the outage caused something at your place to fail when the power came back on.

Treat it as one if it trips repeatedly and you can not identify a single appliance causing it. A repeatedly tripping RCD is doing its job — there is a real earth fault somewhere. Unplug everything on that circuit, reset once, and see if it holds. If it trips with everything unplugged, the fault is in the wiring or the RCD itself and needs an electrician the same day.

For the calls we get most often — replacing a failed RCD or breaker, re-terminating a burnt neutral in a switchboard, replacing a damaged GPO, repairing a downlight that has failed into the roof cavity — we complete the permanent repair in the same visit. Larger jobs (a full switchboard replacement, a rewire, a submain fault) are made safe overnight and quoted for a scheduled return in daylight.

Turn the main switch off at the switchboard if there is any smell of burning, smoke, or if wiring is exposed. If a single circuit has tripped and is not resetting, leave it off. Keep pets and children away from the affected area. If a light fitting is dripping water, put a bucket under it and leave the circuit off. Do not attempt to open the switchboard yourself.