Woollahra Light Installation, Done Properly

Lighting work spans a huge range, from a single pendant to a full replate of a house.

Downlights. LED downlights fitted level and finished cleanly, single fittings or a whole ceiling at once.

Pendants and feature lighting. Anything hung over a bench, table or stairwell, wired to sit exactly where you want it.

Dimmers. Standard switches swapped for dimmable controls on the circuits that suit it.

Outdoor and security lighting. Floodlights, garden lighting and entry lights wired for outdoor conditions.

Ceiling fan-lights. Combination units installed and balanced correctly, wiring checked for the extra load.

Premium fittings go in as standard, backed by the parts warranty that comes with them.

High ceilings and deep rooms define a lot of Woollahra's older housing stock, a look that period lighting rarely does justice to. A single centre rose with one bare pendant was standard when these homes were first fitted out, and plenty still have exactly that.

Getting a fitting into a solid lath-and-plaster ceiling on Wallis Street takes more care than a modern plasterboard job. The cavity above is often shallower than expected, and the original wiring underneath needs checking before anything new goes in.

Newer apartment stock across the suburb brings the opposite problem: down-lit ceilings fitted to a budget, with cheap driver units that fail years before the fitting itself does. Either way, most jobs here start with a look at what is already up there.

Here is roughly how a lighting job unfolds, start to finish.

Getting booked in. Let us know the room and roughly how many fittings, and a slot goes in the diary.

The on-site look. Someone checks the ceiling cavity and the existing wiring before pricing anything.

Fitting day. A handful of downlights usually wraps up in an afternoon; a full room replate or a new outdoor circuit takes longer.

Wrapping up. Every circuit gets tested, and any paperwork required is sorted before the ladder comes down.

A lighting job only looks good if it is level, evenly spaced and wired properly behind the plaster. That is the standard every fitting goes in to.

Every job carries the lifetime workmanship guarantee, so if a fault traces back to our work, we come back and fix it at no cost.

The number on your written quote is the number on the invoice, nothing added once the ladder is out.

One licensed electrician sees the job through from checking the ceiling to the final test. That continuity matters more than it sounds once you have lived through a fitting installed badly the first time round.