Emergency Electrician in Brisbane Answered Day or Night
Licensed emergency electricians across Greater Brisbane for dead power, burning smells, sparking outlets and safety switches that will not stay in. Northside to southside, every day of the year.
Smell burning or seeing sparks? Switch the mains off at the board first, then ring us.
Current Brisbane Offers
Licensed work at a fair price, with the figure agreed before a tool comes out of the van. These offers run until further notice.
Call Out Fee
any hour, any day$0Phone Safety Advice
before we even arriveFREEWorkmanship Cover
on every emergency repairLifetimeIs This Actually an Electrical Emergency in Brisbane?
Ring us straight away if any of the following is happening at your place. If your problem is not on this list it can usually wait for a normal booking, and we will tell you that rather than sending a van out at night rate.
- Burning or hot plastic smell anywhere in the house
- Sparks, arcing or scorch marks at a power point
- A safety switch that trips the moment you reset it
- Someone has taken a shock off a switch or appliance
- Exposed or fallen wiring after a storm
- Water running through a switchboard, oven or light
- Buzzing, crackling or heat coming off the meter box
- Total loss of power while the street still has supply
- Lights flickering hard across several rooms at once
- Half the house dead and the other half still working
Under 1 hr
Typical emergency arrival
7 days
Bookings available
15+
Years on the tools in Brisbane
3,000+
Queensland homes serviced
Brisbane Emergency Electricians, Awake When You Are
Call Us: 1300 000 000What Brisbane Customers Say
Chermside
Whole house went dark just after 10pm. He talked me through checking the main switch on the phone, then traced it to a cooked connection in the meter box. Lights back on the same night.
5 days ago
Wynnum
Storm took out the deck lighting and the safety switch would not stay in. Found water sitting in an outdoor junction box, dried and resealed it properly instead of just resetting things.
2 weeks ago
Camp Hill
Rang about a hot smell near the laundry power point. Told me to kill the mains, got here quickly, replaced the outlet and the damaged bit of cable. No drama and no upselling.
3 weeks ago
Mount Gravatt
Safety switch dropped out every hour for two days. Others just reset it. These blokes tested each circuit and found a failed hot water element. Sorted for good.
1 month ago
Emergency Electricians Across Greater Brisbane
One Number, Any Hour, Answered by Someone Who Holds the Licence
A burnt smell at midnight deserves the same qualified answer as one at midday. Our emergency vans carry test instruments, breakers, RCDs and cable, so the fault gets found and repaired rather than reset and left for someone else in the morning.
Storm damage out on the bayside, dead switchboards through Chermside and Coorparoo, water soaked circuits in Logan and Ipswich. Different suburbs, same approach. Calm, licensed, and finished properly the first time.
Call Us: 1300 000 000Why Brisbane Households Ring Us First in an Emergency
A Sparky Answers, Not a Call Centre
You get a licensed electrician on the line who can tell you what to isolate, whether it is safe to wait until morning, and roughly how long we will be.
We Work Out Whose Fault It Is
Energex owns the network up to your point of attachment. Everything past that is the property owner's. We establish which side the problem sits on before you pay anybody.
After Hours Rates Quoted Before We Move
You hear the figure on the phone, whether that is a weeknight, a Sunday or a public holiday. Nothing gets added to it once the repair is finished.
Stocked for a First Visit Fix
Circuit breakers, RCBOs, outlets, cable and switchboard components ride in the van, so the repair usually happens that night rather than waiting on a parts run.
Built Around Brisbane Storm Season
Roughly October to March, wind drops branches on service lines and driving rain finds its way into outdoor circuits. That is our busiest work and we staff for it.
Made Safe, Then Made Right
The hazard gets isolated first. Then we explain the permanent repair, price it, and wire it to AS/NZS 3000 before the board is handed back to you.
Need Us Now? We Are On Our Way.
A licensed electrician answers the phone at any hour, anywhere in Greater Brisbane. No call out fee, and the price is fixed before work starts.
Emergency callouts answered 24 hours a day
A Brisbane Electrician Who Actually Turns Up
Your Fault or Energex's? We Find Out First.
The network side stops at your property. Everything past it is ours to repair.
Energex owns the poles, the street mains, the service line up to the point of attachment on your house and the meter itself. From that connection inward, the wiring, switchboard, safety switches, circuits and fittings belong to the property owner, and only a licensed electrician may work on them. That boundary matters at 2am, because a street wide outage is a job for the distributor and nobody should be paying a trade to stand and look at it. We check for supply at the point of attachment before anything else. If the fault sits on the network side we say so and help you log it. If it sits on your side, we fix it that night.
Call Us: 1300 000 000Nights, Weekends, Public Holidays and Storm Season
The phone is answered every hour of the year.
Brisbane storm season runs roughly October to March and it is the reason half our night work exists. A nearby strike can take out a switchboard, a modem and an oven in the same second, and driving rain finds every tired outdoor outlet in the street. We staff for it. Ring at 4am on a Sunday and a licensed electrician picks up, gives you safety instructions, and quotes a realistic arrival window for your suburb rather than a number designed to keep you waiting on the hook.
Other Brisbane Services We Offer
A Fast Repair Is Still a Permanent Repair
Nothing gets reset and left for the next person to sort out.
Resetting a tripped safety switch is not a repair, it is a delay. Emergency work here uses the same components, the same testing and the same AS/NZS 3000 compliance as a booked weekday job, because a fault patched at midnight simply trips again on Thursday. Insulation resistance, earth continuity and RCD trip times get measured after the fix rather than assumed. You are told what failed, why it failed, and whether anything else on that board is heading the same way. Our workmanship guarantee stands behind the repair for as long as you own the place.
Call Us: 1300 000 000Your Emergency, Sorted in Three Moves
Ring, isolate, repair. That is the entire process.
There is no booking portal to fight with and no queue to sit in. You describe what is happening, we tell you what to switch off, and a licensed electrician heads your way with the parts to finish the job.
STEP 1 - RING
A licensed electrician takes the call personally.
Describe the smell, the sparks or the dead circuits. We give you the make safe steps straight away and confirm an arrival window for your suburb before the call ends.
STEP 2 - ISOLATE
Hazard shut down, cause traced with instruments.
On arrival the affected circuit comes off first. Then the board and the circuit are tested properly, so we are repairing the actual fault rather than the symptom you happened to notice.
STEP 3 - REPAIR
Fixed price, permanent fix, power proved back on.
The repair is completed with parts carried on board, tested to AS/NZS 3000, and the safety switch is proved before we leave. You approve the figure before any of it begins.
Working Right Across Brisbane
Brisbane electricians covering the northside up to Chermside, plus the southside, bayside, western suburbs, Logan and Ipswich.
We also cover Brisbane Northside (to Chermside), Brisbane Southside, Brisbane Eastern Suburbs, Brisbane Western Suburbs, Bayside & Redlands, Logan, Ipswich. Not on the list? Call us and we will tell you straight away whether we can get to you.
Frequently Asked Questions
- What is considered an electrical emergency?
- An electrical emergency is anything that could start a fire or shock somebody. Burning smells, sparks or scorch marks at a power point, exposed or fallen wiring, water running through a switchboard, or a safety switch that trips straight back out all qualify. Total loss of power counts too, particularly with medical equipment or small children in the house. One dead appliance usually does not.
- What should you do in an electrical emergency?
- Switch the mains off at the switchboard first, then phone a licensed electrician. Keep everyone away from the fault and do not touch damaged wiring, wet fittings or a power point that feels hot. If you can smell smoke or see flames, get out of the building and ring 000. Once you are safe, call us and we will talk you through the rest.
- How much is a call out for an electrician?
- We do not charge a call out fee, so you are never paying purely for a van to arrive. What you pay for is the repair, quoted as a fixed figure before any work starts. After hours and public holiday work is priced differently to a weekday booking, and you hear that rate on the phone before we are dispatched. Nothing changes once you approve it.
- How much does an emergency electrician cost?
- Cost depends on the fault, the time of day, and how much of the repair can be finished on the first visit. Replacing a failed circuit breaker sits at the cheaper end. Rewiring a water damaged circuit at 2am sits at the other. We give you a firm number over the phone or on site before anything starts, never an open ended hourly meter running in the background.
- Why does my safety switch keep tripping?
- A safety switch trips because it has detected current leaking to earth. The usual culprits are a faulty appliance, water in an outdoor power point or light fitting, degraded wiring insulation, or a failed hot water element. Unplug everything on that circuit and reset it once. If it drops out again, stop resetting it and ring us. Repeated resetting only hides a real fault.
- Where can I find an emergency electrician in Brisbane?
- Call the number on this page and a licensed electrician answers, day or night. We run emergency work right across the city, with vans covering the northside up as far as Chermside, the southside from Coorparoo out to Springwood and Forest Lake, and the bayside through Wynnum and Capalaba. Tell us your suburb and you will get a realistic arrival window on the spot.
- What is the hourly rate for an electrician in Brisbane?
- Most Brisbane electricians quote an hourly rate, but we price emergency work as a fixed job figure instead. That way a fault which takes longer than expected does not become a bigger bill than the one you agreed to. Rates around Brisbane vary with the licence held, the time of day and whether the work is domestic or commercial. Ask on the phone and you get a straight answer.
Something Sparking, Smoking or Dead Right Now?
Licensed emergency electricians across Greater Brisbane, answering the phone at any hour. No call out fee, a fixed price agreed before work starts, and the after hours rate told to you upfront.
Call Us: 1300 000 000