Matraville and the surrounding suburbs
Electricians Matraville
Licensed electricians for Matraville with fast response, backed by a lifetime workmanship guarantee.
Fast, Local Response
Often same or next day for bookings, and we drop everything for genuine emergencies.
01Guaranteed for Life
Our workmanship carries a lifetime guarantee, backed by a 12-month product warranty.
02$50 Welcome Discount
Take $50 off your first service. Quotes are free and in writing.
03Rated 5 Stars, 600+ Times
Sydney homeowners have left us over 600 five-star reviews.
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Welcome
Matraville's Trusted Local Electricians
This is home turf: a working, family-focused pocket of the eastern suburbs, built on soldiers'-settlement blocks and market gardens, still more affordable than its beachside neighbours.
Our team is licensed across NSW under Electrical Contractor Licence #452529C, we are Master Electricians Australia members, and fully insured.
Nothing starts until the price is written down and handed to you: the price we quote is the price you pay. More about our team.
What we do
The Electrical Services We Handle Across Matraville
Six lines of work, covering most of what breaks, wears out or gets added to a house.
Every one is wired to the AS/NZS 3000 wiring rules, using Clipsal and Hager switchgear, not cheap imports. You get a Certificate of Compliance when we finish.
Switchboard Upgrades
Boards fill up, so we pull the tired gear out, fit RCBOs, label every circuit and leave headroom for what you add next. A switchboard upgrade is a day on most houses.
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Light Installation
Getting light right takes more than a fitting, so we plan the layout, the dimming and the switching before anything goes in. Light installation, done once and left tidy.
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EV Charger Installation
Homes off Beauchamp Road were wired decades before anyone parked a car that charges overnight. EV charger installation means a dedicated run back to the board, sized right and tested.
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Emergency Electrician
Ring us when something smells hot, sparks, or drops half the house into the dark. The emergency electrician line stays open every hour of every day for genuine emergencies.
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Level 2 Electrician
Some jobs stop at the property boundary. Past it you need Level 2 accreditation for the local network, and we hold it: consumer mains, meter connections, service lines, defect notices (Level 2 electrician).
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Residential Electrician
Safety switches, ceiling fans, fault finding, extra power points, data and TV cabling: everything a residential electrician covers that is not a headline job. One team, one written price, no hourly rates.
Learn moreNot sure which service you need?
Call us and tell us what is going on. We will point you in the right direction and give you clear pricing before we start.
Local knowledge
What Older Matraville Homes Need from a Sparkie
Most of the stock here is post-war, built the way post-war stock is built. Brick, double-brick, and fibro where the budget ran out.
That shapes the job before we arrive.
Adding modern appliances and air conditioning to a post-war house is what drives switchboard capacity upgrades. The board was sized for a fridge, a kettle and not much else, and it has been carrying an induction cooktop ever since.
Soldiers'-settlement homes are still standing off Bunnerong Road, and the streets around Murrabin Avenue hold the same mix: detached cottages, semis and units, side by side.
Three things follow from that mix:
- Double brick slows a cable run right down. Fibro is quicker and far less forgiving.
- Semis and units share walls, so a small job can pull in a neighbour and a strata committee.
- Detached cottages give us room to work, though their boards have usually been added to for decades.
So we open the board before we promise anything. It is the only honest way to price a house that has been added to more than once.
Three Building Waves, Three Kinds of Wiring
Each wave that built this place left different wiring behind it.
1940s to 1960s. Soldiers'-settlement cottages and post-war detached homes, some still standing off Somme Way. Original boards, original circuits, and frequently no RCD anywhere in the house.
1960s to 1980s. The mid-century public housing estates went up, solid and plain, wired to the standards of their day. Those did not include a safety switch on every circuit.
1980s to 2000s. Infill across the former drive-in site and through the Peninsula and Mawarra estates. Newer, but old enough that the board is on its second generation of appliances.
The thread running through all three is the missing safety switch. Older dwellings here often have none, and it surfaces at inspection or on sale, the worst possible moment to find out.
A safety switch on every circuit is the fix, and on most houses it is a residential electrician job rather than a rewire.
When an Electrical Emergency Strikes in Matraville
Most faults can wait for a booking slot. The ones below cannot.
- Burning smell at an outlet or the board
- Sparking or scorched outlets
- An RCD that will not stay in
- Flicker across several rooms
- Exposed wiring within reach
- Half the property dead
First, is it your place or the street? If the whole street is dark, that call belongs to Ausgrid, whose network it is.
Everything past the meter and into your house is ours. While you wait, switch the circuit off at the board and leave the fitting alone.
Then ring (02) 9134 9026. What you get is triage from a licensed electrician, not a message service.
How we work
Our Process Keeps You in the Loop
No mystery, and no waiting by the window. You know who is coming, what it costs and when it will be done, and anything that changes on site reaches you before the invoice does.
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Tell Us What It Is Doing
A real person answers the phone, asks the questions that narrow it down, and we book you in for a time that suits.
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Look Before We Price
Someone comes out, gets the covers off and prices what is actually there instead of guessing. The visit costs nothing, and your written quote arrives before a tool is unpacked.
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Do It Without the Mess
Drop sheets down and the place left tidy, every time. Should the job turn up something invisible from outside, work pauses and you get a fresh quote before anyone carries on.
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Test, Certify, Hand Over
Everything is tested before we sign off. The compliance paperwork, your guarantee certificate and photos of the work all arrive by email, so nothing is left for you to chase.
Why Homeowners Here Pick Us
This is family territory, and a family tends to keep the same sparkie for years.
Some own, some rent, some mind a place for someone else. What they want is the same: a price that holds, someone who arrives, and work nobody has to redo.
We Turn Up When We Say
Bookings are often same or next day, and for a genuine emergency we come out at any hour. Running late means a call from us beforehand, not an apology afterwards.
The Work Is Covered for Life
Our workmanship guarantee has no end date. A guarantee certificate reaches your inbox when the job is done, and the 12-month product warranty runs alongside the manufacturer's.
$50 Off Your First Service
New customers take $50 off their first service. Quotes cost nothing, we do them at your place, and the written one is yours to keep whether you book us or not.
What 600+ Reviews Add Up To
More than 600 five-star reviews have come in from Sydney homeowners. Read them wherever you like, though we would rather be judged on the board we leave behind.
How we compare
How We Compare on the Things That Matter
Everyone in this trade will tell you they are the careful one. Here is what actually differs, line by line, with nothing in our column we cannot back up.
Electricians Matraville
- Pricing Fixed written pricing, no surprises
- Workmanship Guaranteed for life, plus 12-month product warranty
- First-service offer $50 off for new customers
- Gear fitted Name-brand switchgear, Clipsal and Hager
- Accreditation Master Electricians Australia member
Typical Electricians
- Pricing Extras appear on the invoice
- Workmanship 30 days if you are lucky
- First-service offer Call-out fee just to show up
- Gear fitted Unbranded imports
- Accreditation Rarely accredited
Jack, from our Google reviews, on an EV charger job: good gear, the neatest cable run he had come across, and an invoice that landed exactly on the quote. His third job with us.
Safe, Compliant and Certified Electrical Work
Get this trade wrong and the house pays for it, sometimes with a fire. So none of the dull parts are optional: the licence, the wiring rules, the testing, the certificate.
Licensed in NSW, Not Just Listed
The contractor licence behind this site is a current NSW one. Checking it on the register takes a minute, well spent before anyone opens your board.
Master Electricians Australia Member
Being a member means somebody outside this business audits the gap between what we say and what we do. Not a licence, and certainly not a sticker.
Wired to AS/NZS 3000
Circuit sizing, RCD protection, cable selection. All of it gets tested against AS/NZS 3000 before a signature goes anywhere, because those rules are the minimum, not the target.
Your Certificate of Compliance
Notifiable electrical work is lodged with NSW Fair Trading. The certificate is yours, not something in our filing cabinet, and it is the proof the job met the rules.
Licensed, insured & guaranteed
Our Standards, In Plain English
Here is the whole list, without the jargon. If a claim on this page cannot be checked, it should not be here.
Need an Electrician in Matraville? Call Now
Ring (02) 9134 9026 and describe what your place is doing. Free quote at your door, $50 off if it's your first job with us, and a lifetime guarantee sitting behind the work.
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Common questions
Electrician FAQs
These are the six that come up before anyone has even booked. Each answer is what you would hear on the phone, not a polished version.
Are your electricians licensed and insured?
Yes. NSW Electrical Contractor Licence #452529C, with workers compensation and public liability cover behind every job, and it sits on the public register if you want it confirmed.
How much does an electrician cost in Matraville?
No hourly rates. Once we have looked at the job you get a fixed price in writing, and that price does not move if the work runs longer than expected.
Is there an electrician near Matraville open on weekends?
Bookings run Monday to Friday, 7am to 5pm. Genuine emergencies do not keep to that, so we take those at any hour, with a licensed sparkie going through the fault before any van moves.
What suburbs do you service around Matraville?
Maroubra, Malabar, Eastgardens, Coogee, Kingsford and Pagewood, each with its own page on this site. If your street sits on the edge of that, ring us and you will get a straight answer.
Is my old switchboard dangerous?
Age alone does not make a board dangerous. The real question is whether it protects people or only cable: fuses were built for the second job, RCDs for the first, so no RCDs is a gap worth closing.
Do you offer emergency electrical work?
Yes, round the clock, for anything that truly will not keep. Ring (02) 9134 9026 and a licensed electrician takes the call before any van moves, so you know whether to kill the circuit or expect us shortly.