Landlord Electrical Compliance in Adelaide

What a Landlord Is Responsible For

If you rent out a property, keeping it safe is your responsibility, and that includes the electrical installation and the smoke alarms. In South Australia the owner of a rental is responsible for installing and maintaining its smoke alarms. Electrical faults are rarely visible until something goes wrong, so a regular check costs far less than the problem it prevents.

What I Check

• Switchboard: its condition, any sign of heat or damage, old rewireable fuses, and whether the circuits are labelled.
• Safety Switches: that every circuit is protected by an RCD, and that each one trips when tested.
• Smoke Alarms: their type, age, location and operation, against the rules for your property.
• Power Points and Switches: anything cracked, loose, scorched or running hot.
• Earthing: that the installation is properly earthed.
• Visible Wiring and Fittings: anything damaged, worn or unsafe, inside and out.

A Hands-Off Job for You

If you are busy or interstate, I can contact your tenants or property manager, book a time that suits them, do the work and send you the paperwork afterwards. If I find something that needs fixing, I explain what it is and why it matters, and I check with you before doing anything extra.

Paperwork You Can Keep

Electrical work in South Australia has to be certified. For every relevant job I issue a Certificate of Compliance, the legal record that the work was done by a licensed contractor, tested, and meets AS/NZS 3000:2018, the Australian Wiring Rules. Keep it with your property records. It is what your insurer will ask for if something ever goes wrong.