Electrician Belmont

Belmont houses: interwar, post-war and 1970s

Belmont lies south of the Barwon River, with Belmont Common along the river, Highton to the west and Waurn Ponds Creek to the south. Subdivision followed the new Barwon bridge and the tram in the 1920s. From the early 1950s post-war housing spread west towards Highton, and in the 1970s subdivision moved south towards Grovedale. Fewer than 3,000 people lived there before the Second World War; the 2021 Census counted 15,066.

So one Belmont street can hold an interwar house, a post-war house and a 1970s house side by side, each wired for a very different number of appliances. That shapes what we find:

• Older houses can still have an early switchboard with rewireable fuses, and a safety switch on some circuits or none. Energy Safe Victoria lists old switchboards, particularly those without a safety switch, among the tell-tale signs of faulty wiring, and advises a wiring check by a licensed electrician for any house over 30 years old.
• 1970s houses are past that mark as well. Whether one needs rewiring depends on what testing finds, not on the date alone; our guide does a 1970s house need rewiring? explains what decides it.
• Townhouses and units. About 18 per cent of Belmont homes are semi-detached, row houses or townhouses, above the Victorian figure of 13.9 per cent. A townhouse can have a compact switchboard with few spare spaces, so we check the room on the board before quoting new circuits.

Fault finding in Belmont: tripping circuits and dead power points

More than a third of our Belmont jobs start with something that has stopped working. Three safe checks tell you who to ring:

1. Is the street out too? Then it is a network fault. Call Powercor, the electricity distributor for the Geelong region, on 13 24 12.
2. Has a safety switch tripped? Unplug the appliances on that circuit and reset it. If it will not reset, or trips again straight away, call a licensed electrician.
3. Are lights dimming or flickering across the house, or has only part of the house lost power? Energy Safe Victoria's advice is not to touch the switchboard or anything metal, to turn off the power points you can reach, and to call Powercor straight away.

Once it is safe, we trace the fault with testing, repair it, and test the circuit again before it goes back on. The common causes are on our electrical fault finding and repairs page.

Booking an electrician in Belmont

1. Call 1300 025 555. For a fault, tell us what tripped, when it happens and what was running at the time.
2. We book the visit for a day that suits you. A dangerous fault is handled as an emergency, day or night.
3. The electrician looks at the job and at the switchboard, because any new circuit needs a space on the board, and we put safety switch protection on every circuit we add.
4. You approve the quote before any work starts.
5. The work is tested before it is switched on, and you receive a Certificate of Electrical Safety.

Suburbs next to Belmont

Belmont borders Highton to the west and Grovedale to the south, and we work in both. Across the Barwon River we cover South Geelong and Newtown, and we also work in Belmont's other neighbours: Breakwater, Marshall, Wandana Heights and Waurn Ponds. For the rest of the region, see our residential electrician Geelong page.