Signs your board needs upgrading
Rewireable ceramic fuses. No RCDs, or RCDs that predate current requirements. Breakers that trip under normal load. A spa, heat pump, solar array or EV charger on the wish list with nowhere to land it. An insurer asking questions about the age of the installation. Any one of these is the board telling you it belongs to another era.
Many Devonport and peninsula homes are villas and bungalows still running boards fitted generations ago. They were fine for a house with one heater and a radio. They are not fine for a house with an induction hob, two heat pumps and a car in the garage drawing seven kilowatts all night.
What an upgrade involves
Assessment first: we look at the board, the mains, the earthing and the circuits it feeds. Then a fixed quote and a drawing inside two working days, so you can see exactly what you are buying. On the day, the new board goes in with modern RCD protection, every circuit is tested and labelled, and the work is recorded and certified in-house. One visit where possible, and the power is back on before dinner.
Upgrading ahead of solar or an EV charger
The switchboard is where a whole-house energy system starts. If solar and battery storage or an EV charger is in your plans, the board has to carry it: spare ways, capacity in the mains, protection rated for the new loads. We design the board for where the house is heading, not just where it is, so the next stage drops in without redoing the last one.
Switchboard upgrades in Devonport, Takapuna and across the Shore
The board eras map onto the suburbs. Devonport and the peninsula run villa-era boards behind original hallway panels; Takapuna’s 1960s and 70s units carry first-generation breaker boards with no RCDs; the bays add coastal corrosion to whatever era they started with. We upgrade all of them from one Devonport base, minutes from the peninsula and a straight run from Takapuna.
Older and heritage homes
Peninsula housing stock rewards care. We fit modern boards into period homes without butchering original fabric: sensible locations, tidy penetrations, cabling routed to respect the building. Where the wiring behind the board also needs attention, we tell you straight and quote it fixed, because a new board on failing wiring is a tidy lie.
Every switchboard upgrade carries a 12 month workmanship guarantee. We work across the North Shore from our Devonport base.
