24/7 Emergency Electrician Melbourne

If a power outage is the result of an electrical fault in your home or commercial property, contact Structured to inspect your electrical system and identify faulty appliances or wiring.

Before you call, it is worth checking whether your neighbours still have power. A whole street outage is a network issue and is best reported to your distributor, which in Melbourne will be CitiPower, Powercor, Jemena, United Energy or AusNet depending on where you are. If the outage stops at your property boundary, the fault sits on your side of the meter and that is where we come in. We will trace the affected circuits, test for shorts and earth faults, and either restore supply or make the installation safe until parts arrive.

Have a critical issue with lighting or appliances that needs to be resolved ASAP? We can help, day or night.

Lights that flicker, dim when the kettle or air conditioner starts, or fail repeatedly in the same fitting usually point to a loose connection, an overloaded circuit or a deteriorating neutral. None of those improve on their own, and a loose connection is one of the more common causes of electrical fires in Melbourne homes. Where an appliance is the culprit, we will isolate it, confirm the circuit itself is sound, and tell you plainly whether the appliance is worth repairing or replacing.

Call Structured to safely reset your circuit breaker, and identify wiring or electrical faults that may be causing your safety switch to trip.

A safety switch doing its job is a good sign, not a nuisance. It is detecting current leaking to earth, which is precisely the condition that causes electric shock. Repeatedly forcing it back on is the worst thing you can do. Our electricians isolate circuits one at a time, insulation test the cabling, and identify whether the cause is a failed appliance, moisture in an outdoor circuit, damaged cabling or a switchboard that has reached the end of its life. Plenty of older Melbourne properties still run on rewireable ceramic fuses with no RCD protection at all. Where that is the case, we will walk you through a switchboard upgrade that meets the current AS/NZS 3000 Wiring Rules.

Flooding and wet weather can make electrical repair work extremely dangerous.

Melbourne storms have a habit of finding the weak point in a roof, and water plus electricity is the one combination that gives electricians pause. If water is coming through a ceiling near a downlight, exhaust fan or ceiling rose, switch off the affected circuit at the switchboard if you can do so safely, stay out of the room, and call us. Never stand in water to reach a switchboard. We will make the installation safe, then dry and test the affected circuits. Where the repair requires a Certificate of Electrical Safety, you will receive one.

An acrid or fishy odour near a power point or switchboard is potentially melting insulation, and it means heat is building up somewhere inside the wall. Switch the circuit off at the switchboard, unplug what you can safely reach, and ring us. Discoloured or scorched faceplates, a sizzle when you plug something in, and plugs that feel hot when you pull them out all fall into the same category. These are the faults that can become house fires when they are left until Monday.

Renovation work, rodents, ageing rubber and cotton insulation in period homes, and unlicensed DIY cabling all produce exposed conductors. In Victoria, electrical work must be carried out by a licensed electrician, with a Certificate of Electrical Safety issued where required. If you have inherited somebody else’s handy work, we will assess it, make it safe, and bring it to standard.