Registered electricians covering West Auckland. Switchboards, rewires, new builds, and the small jobs everyone else is too busy for.
Nobody rings a sparky in a panic about a switchboard. You will think about it for a week and price it against two other people, so this page is written to be checked rather than to be rung — what we take on, what we turn down, and exactly how our number is put together.
09 555 0142Said here rather than on the phone, so the jobs that are not for us stop ringing and the ones that are get a straight answer the same day. Nobody enjoys being told no after a site visit.
Our actual trade
Better done by somebody else
Every job we do is signed off by a registered electrician, and you get the paperwork that proves it in the same week — not three months later after you have chased it.
Issued for prescribed electrical work. It is the document that says the work was done to the standard. Keep it: your insurer and the next buyer of your house will both ask.
Confirms the installation was tested as safe to connect. For most domestic jobs you should end up holding both of these.
The Electrical Workers Registration Board keeps a public register. Our registration numbers go on the quote, not just the invoice, so you can look us up before you decide rather than after.
Three quotes for the same job come back in three shapes, and the cheapest is usually the one with a line missing. So ours is laid out the same way every time, and here it is before you have asked for one.
Labour and materials for the work as described, at a price that does not move. On a switchboard or a staged rewire this is most of the number.
Anything we genuinely cannot see yet — what is inside a wall, what the old wiring turns out to be. Given as a range with the reason next to it, never as a single optimistic figure.
Written down rather than implied. Making good plasterboard, scaffolding, the electrician’s share of a consent, and anything another trade has to do first.
Included in the price, itemised so you can see it is there. If a quote you are comparing does not mention it, that is worth a phone call to them.
The rate that applies if the job changes, agreed before it changes. You approve the extra in writing or it does not happen.
Nothing up front on jobs under about $4,000. Larger work is staged, and the stages are on the quote.
Sample figures and terms for this concept build. On a real site these are the client’s own, written in their own words — and this section is usually the one that wins a job, because it is the only part of a quote a homeowner can actually compare.
Two of these were a line in a list five years ago. They are now the reason half our phone calls happen, and they are the jobs people search for by name — so they get a section rather than a bullet point.
Supply and install, with the load check done properly first. A lot of older West Auckland boards will not take a 7kW charger without work, and it is better to know that before the car arrives than after.
Usually a half day, plus the board if it needs it
If you are replacing a board anyway, it costs comparatively little to leave room for a battery later. If you are not, we will say so rather than sell you the bigger one.
Specified at quote stage, not upsold on the day
The electrical side, working with the installer. Dedicated circuits, outdoor units and the switchboard capacity to run them in winter without tripping.
We wire it; we do not sell the unit
Villas with sixty years of additions in them. This is slow, hourly work and we say so up front — but it is the thing we are best at, and most of it starts with a call from somebody two sparkies have already given up on.
Charged by the hour, with the rate agreed first
On a real build these hold the client’s own jobs — a board before and the same board after is the single most persuasive thing an electrician owns. They are empty here because this business does not exist and the work is not ours to show.
On a live site these pull from the client’s own Google reviews. Skyward has none of its own yet, so none of this is real and none of it is dressed up as though it were.
“Turned up on the dot, had the board swapped over and the power back on before lunch. Explained what he had done in plain English.”
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Switchboard replaced, Te Atatū
“Did our whole villa in stages so we never had to move out. Tidy work and they cleaned up every day.”
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Full rewire, Henderson
“Two other sparkies could not work out why our lights kept tripping. These ones found it in an hour.”
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Fault find, New Lynn
Send the job through and you get a written quote laid out the way it is set out above, so you can put it beside the other two without having to translate anything.
Henderson · Te Atatū · New Lynn · Massey · Swanson
Weekdays 7.00am – 5.00pm