Switchboard
Upgrades
Hawthorn East
Fixed Price.

Ceramic rewireable fuses rely on a fuse wire that needs to be manually replaced when it blows, and there's no automatic detection of earth leakage unless a separate safety switch has been added. In many Hawthorn East bungalows and Edwardians, that safety switch either doesn't exist or only covers part of the house.

This isn't just an inconvenience — it's a genuine safety gap compared to a modern board where RCBOs isolate individual circuits and cut power the moment a fault is detected, rather than relying on a fuse wire to eventually burn through.

When a second bathroom or study is on the cards, we assess the whole board rather than just adding circuits for the new rooms. Ceramic fuses come out, RCBOs go in across every circuit, and the main switch and consumer mains are sized to the home's actual combined load, current and planned.

Timing the switchboard upgrade alongside the renovation, rather than as an afterthought once the new rooms are wired, means the new circuits are protected properly from day one instead of being bolted onto an outdated board.

Units around Auburn Road and Burke Road often share ageing meter panels even where individual unit boards have had minor updates over the years. We assess your unit's board on its own merits and flag anything involving shared infrastructure separately.

Bringing a unit's board up to standard with RCBOs and a properly sized main switch is usually straightforward and doesn't require touching the shared meter bank at all, unless that's also showing its age.