Electrician in Wollongong

The full details for Wollongong

Wollongong is a city of contrasts. Within a few kilometres you have high-rise units near the Crown Street Mall, old workers' cottages on the CBD fringe, student share houses near the university, and family homes climbing up toward Mount Keira. Each of those comes with its own electrical quirks, and Flowstate Electrical Co works across all of them.

When you call, you speak to Kalani, the licensed electrician who will actually do the job. No call centre, no handing you around.

What we see in Wollongong homes

The older houses around the city centre and North Wollongong often still have their original switchboards, sometimes with ceramic fuses and no safety switches at all. These boards were fine for a house with a fridge and a radio. They were never designed for air conditioning, induction cooktops and a dozen chargers running at once. If your lights flicker when the kettle goes on, or a fuse keeps blowing, it is worth having a look at a switchboard upgrade.

Units bring a different set of jobs. Strata buildings usually mean working inside a set footprint, so most of the requests are about lighting upgrades, swapping old halogen downlights for LEDs, adding USB power points where the furniture actually goes, and replacing tired smoke alarms.

For landlords with rentals near the university, the priorities are a little different again. Tenants come and go, so safety switches that are tested, smoke alarms that work and power points that are not cracked or loose all matter. We can check a property between tenancies and fix anything that needs attention.

Close to the beach, salt air works its way into outdoor fittings. Corroded external lights and weatherproof outlets are common around North Beach and the harbour end of town, and replacing them with fittings rated for coastal conditions saves you doing the same job again in two years.

Jobs we take on around the city

• Switchboard upgrades and adding safety switches to older boards
• Downlights, pendants and LED upgrades for units and houses
• Extra power points, including USB outlets in kitchens and studies
• Smoke alarm replacement, including hard wired and interconnected alarms
• Range hood, cooktop and oven installation
• Fault finding when something has stopped working and nobody can tell you why

That last one matters. Customers have told us Kalani fixed problems other electricians could not resolve. Fault finding takes patience and a methodical approach, and it is a big part of what we do.

Urgent call outs

Flowstate is open 24 hours for emergency call outs. If you have lost power to part of the house, smell burning from a fitting or have a safety switch that will not reset, call the emergency electrician line and explain what is happening. We will talk you through keeping things safe while we get to you.

We also cover the surrounding suburbs, including Figtree to the west and Corrimal to the north, along with the rest of the Wollongong area.

Call or text Kalani on 0424 400 346. Photos of the switchboard or the problem are always welcome and help us come prepared.