Serving Ponsonby 24/7
Ponsonby electrician for character homes and Ponsonby Road businesses
Need an electrician in Ponsonby? Our registered electricians work on the suburb's cottages, villas and bungalows and on the shops, bars, cafes and offices along Ponsonby Road. Call-outs run 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, so whether a breaker has tripped at midnight or you are planning a rewire, ring 021 156 4005 or send us the details.
About Ponsonby Electrician
Ponsonby Electrician is a New Zealand owned and operated electrical business, and our registered electricians have been working on Auckland homes and businesses since 2009. Most of our work is in West and Central Auckland, which puts Ponsonby and its neighbours, Grey Lynn, Herne Bay, Freemans Bay and Westmere, right in the middle of it. We serve Ponsonby rather than keep a base here, so an electrician comes to you, whether the job is a planned switchboard upgrade on a Tuesday morning or a dead circuit at two in the morning.
Power out, or a job to plan?
Call 021 156 4005 at any hour, or send us the details and an electrician will get back to you.
Why Ponsonby calls us
Ponsonby is one of Auckland's first suburbs, and its houses show it: workers' cottages, villas, transitional villas and bungalows on small sections, built close together along narrow streets between the 1860s and the 1940s. Te Ara records that many of those villas and cottages were run down and rented in the 1950s and 1960s before gentrification transformed the suburb from the 1970s. A house with that history has often been renovated more than once, and its wiring tends to be a mix of every decade it has lived through. Our electricians expect that, and they look before they assume.
Ponsonby Road is different again. It is one of the earliest suburban main streets in the Auckland region, lined with shops, many with a flat or office upstairs, in buildings put up between the late 1800s and the 1930s. A bar, restaurant or boutique there runs modern equipment inside an old shell, and when something fails during service it cannot wait for Monday. We work on both sides of the suburb, the homes and the businesses, and we answer the phone at any hour.
- Call-outs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, on 021 156 4005
- Registered electricians for residential and commercial work
- Completed prescribed electrical work is tested, and you receive the certificate that goes with it
- A licensed electrical inspector arranged when the work has to be inspected
- New Zealand owned and operated, working across Auckland since 2009
Electrical services in Ponsonby
Seven services cover most of what Ponsonby homes and businesses ask an electrician for. Each has its own page explaining how the work is done here.
Emergency electrician and fault finding
Call-outs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, to find and fix the fault that has cut your power.Villa and house rewiring
Rewiring for cottages, villas and bungalows whose wiring was never meant for the appliances in them today.Switchboard upgrades
Old fuse boards replaced with modern switchboards and circuit breakers, inspected where the law requires it.Lighting
LED, interior, garden and outdoor lighting for homes, shops and venues.Commercial and hospitality electrical
Electrical work for the shops, bars, restaurants and offices along Ponsonby Road.Heat pump installation
Heat pumps sized for the room and installed with their own circuit.Data and fibre cabling
Wired data points, fibre and network cabling for homes and offices.Questions Ponsonby people ask
Will an electrician come out to Ponsonby at night or at the weekend?
Yes. Our electricians take call-outs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including public holidays and the middle of the night. Call 021 156 4005 and describe what has happened; our emergency electrician page explains what to check while you wait.
My villa still has an old fuse board. Should I replace it?
It is worth talking about. A fuse has to be rewired or replaced every time it blows, whereas a circuit breaker simply resets, and WorkSafe advises replacing fuses with plug-in circuit breakers of the same rating where possible because they are safer to use. A full switchboard upgrade goes further and gives the house room for the circuits it needs now.
Can you work in a flat above a shop or in an apartment building?
Yes. Ponsonby Road has many shops with a home or office above them, and some of its old buildings, the former Gluepot tavern among them, were converted into shops and apartments. In a shared building, tell us who looks after the common areas when you call, because the meter or the switchboard for your unit may sit somewhere we need a key or permission to reach.
The whole street has gone dark. Is it worth calling you?
Probably not first. When the neighbours and the street lights are out too, the fault is usually on the lines network, so check Vector's outage information for your address and report it there. If only part of the house has gone off, or a breaker will not reset, that is a job for us; if your whole place is off and the neighbours are not, report it to Vector as well, because the fuse at the point of supply is usually theirs.
Will I get a certificate for the work?
Yes. New circuits, new power points, a rewire or a new switchboard are tested when they are finished and you receive a Certificate of Compliance. Simple maintenance, such as replacing a socket or a light fitting, does not need a Certificate of Compliance, but you still receive an Electrical Safety Certificate. Keep your certificates together, as they can be asked for by an insurer or when you sell.
Ponsonby and the suburbs around it
We serve Ponsonby and its neighbouring suburbs, and work right across Auckland, mostly in the west and central suburbs and on the North Shore as well. If your street is not listed, contact Ponsonby Electrician and ask.
- Ponsonby
- Grey Lynn
- Herne Bay
- Freemans Bay
- Westmere
- Arch Hill
- Newton
Enquiries
Contact us
Call 021 156 4005 at any hour, or tell us below what needs doing and where, and an electrician will get back to you.
021 156 4005- Auckland
- Call-outs 24 hours a day, 7 days a week