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Luke did a great job and was very flexible and understanding of our needs. He listened and was very helpful in explaining answers to our questions. I would highly recommend his work.
Luke was on time, considerate upon entering the house, and has a pleasant, friendly manner. He also gave excellent advice and suggestions/options for solving the problem, without "pushing" for one or the other. NEXTPOINT Electrics is to be highly recommended.
Luke at NextPoint was fantastic. Arrived on time both times he's done work, texted first to say he was on his way. Very quick, efficient and tidy with both jobs and a great guy to deal with. Highly recommend and will definitely use him again.
Luke was super efficient and communication on point. Came around the next day to quote for all ceiling fans replaced and was all done in less than a week. Highly recommend Luke and Nextpoint Electrics!
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Across Geelong, no distance loading
Waurn Ponds sits about 9 km south-west of Geelong on the Princes Highway, built around the Deakin University campus that opened to students in 1977. We come across from Ocean Grove, and there is no travel time on the bill for it.
We cover the whole of 3216, and Grovedale, Highton, Belmont and the rest of Geelong with it.
No call out fee, a fixed price agreed before anything starts, and a lifetime workmanship warranty. REC 346464.
What can we help with?
From adding a circuit for a studio to a board upgrade before a charger goes in. Here is what we do most in Waurn Ponds.
Why Waurn Ponds locals choose us
Most of Waurn Ponds went up from the early 1990s onward. In a house that age the wiring is usually sound and the useful question is what the board has left on it, which is a much shorter conversation and a cheaper one.
Registered electrical contractor REC 346464. Whoever turns up is licensed and working to the same standard.
On every job, no exceptions
We come out, look at it and price it. That visit costs you nothing.
One number, agreed before anything begins, GST stated. It does not move.
If our work is not right we come back and put it right at no charge. No expiry.
Got questions? We have answers
Yes. We come across from Ocean Grove, and there is no travel time on the bill for it. There is no call out fee and no distance loading.
All of it, the whole 3216 postcode, and the neighbouring towns with it. Across the estates and the university end alike, with nothing in it far enough out to charge extra for.
We come across from Ocean Grove, and there is no travel time on the bill for it. We do not promise a set response time, but you get a straight answer on the phone and a time on the day rather than an all day window.
Mainly its age and how it was built. Waurn Ponds was still effectively rural into the 1960s, with a population of about 150 in 1966, and the residential development really started in the early 1990s. So the stock is young, almost entirely freestanding, and estate-built rather than individually commissioned. Wiring condition is rarely the question. What people actually ring about is capacity: what the board will carry once a second split system, a charger or a studio goes on it.
Complementary services
Grovedale, Highton, Belmont, Mount Duneed, Wandana Heights, Marshall, Armstrong Creek, Ceres, Charlemont and Geelong. See the full service area.
Waurn Ponds has a long history and a short suburban one. There were inns here from the 1840s and 50s, a school from 1859, and David Pettavel planted vineyards from 1848 that gave the district the name Pettavel through the 1860s. Limestone was quarried here from the 1840s and the lime kilns ran until the 1970s.
For most of the twentieth century it stayed rural. The population was around 150 in 1966. The turning point was Deakin University, which enrolled its first students at the Waurn Ponds campus in 1977, and the residential development that followed, which did not really begin in earnest until the early 1990s.
The result is one of the newest housing stocks of any suburb we cover in Geelong. At the 2021 census over 97 per cent of dwellings were freestanding houses and none at all were recorded as flats or apartments. The median age of residents was 27, the youngest of the Geelong suburbs on our list, which the university explains.
For wiring that means something specific. Houses built from the 1990s onward were wired to a modern standard and generally have safety switch protection from the start. The work here is much more often about adding capacity than about correcting the past.
The practical version for a Waurn Ponds owner: before you commit to a charger, a pool or a second split system, get the board looked at. It is a short job and it is the thing that decides whether the rest is simple or not.
If you are letting to students, safety switch protection and compliant smoke alarms are the two worth confirming rather than assuming, whatever the age of the house.
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