If you have wondered that, eCertify's home electrical safety check is the straightforward way to find out what can be seen. eCertify looks over your home's electrical installation area by area and gives you a written report that rates each part, with notes, recommendations and photos where useful. It is a visual check: no testing, and not a certificate.
eCertify's home electrical safety check is usually NZ$249.90. Special price NZ$99.90 including GST until 30 November 2026, all inclusive, anywhere in the Auckland region.
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You cannot tell everything by looking at a light switch. Much of an electrical installation sits behind walls, under floors and inside the switchboard. eCertify's visual check covers what can be seen, and that already tells you a lot: the type and age of the cable, whether the switchboard has RCD protection, signs of heat or damage, and additions that were never done properly. Proving the condition of hidden wiring takes testing, and if what we see points that way, the report recommends it.
There are signs worth taking seriously. Fuses or breakers that trip repeatedly. Lights that flicker or dim when an appliance starts. Warm or discoloured switches and outlets. A burning smell with no source. Black rubber or cloth-covered cable visible in the roof space. Any of those is a reason to book, not a reason to panic.
eCertify's home electrical safety check goes through your home's installation area by area. The report covers:
Each area gets one of five ratings: Excellent, Good, Average, Poor, or Unsafe (requires immediate attention). Each comes with notes and recommendations, and photos where they help. You can read it yourself and see what is urgent, what to plan for, and what is simply worth knowing.
eCertify looks at the meterboard but is not a metering equipment provider. Anything to do with the meter itself goes through your energy retailer.
Damp areas get particular attention. Bathrooms, laundries, under the house and anything outdoors are where the wrong fitting for the location turns up most often.
eCertify's home electrical safety check, NZ$99.90 including GST in Auckland until 30 November 2026, is a visual check, and a visual check cannot see everything. It does not measure anything. Faults hidden inside walls or in the cable insulation, how well the earthing actually works, and how fast an RCD trips all need instrument testing. AS/NZS 3019, the standard New Zealand uses for checking existing installations, treats a visual-only check and a tested check as different levels of assessment, and notes that signs of an unsafe condition found by looking may need testing to settle.
When you need more than a visual check, eCertify points you to the right one:
eCertify's home electrical safety check costs NZ$99.90 including GST anywhere in the Auckland region, a special price until 30 November 2026. It is usually NZ$249.90. The price is the total: the callout and travel anywhere in Auckland, the visual check, and your written report. Nothing is added at the end.
Anything found that you want fixed is quoted separately, and the cost is confirmed with you before any work starts. There is no obligation, and you are free to use any electrician you like.
eCertify's home electrical safety check takes about an hour on site for a typical home, longer for a larger property. eCertify needs access to every room and to the switchboard. You do not need to stay for all of it.
You get a structured online report, filled in on site, with each area rated and explained, recommendations, and photos where useful. It is a report on condition, not a certificate.
Most findings are things to plan for, not emergencies. The report says how urgent each one is. If you want anything fixed, eCertify quotes it first and nothing starts without your say-so. You can just as easily take the report to any electrician you like.
If something looks like an immediate danger. eCertify tells you on the spot, before we leave. Regulation 15 of the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010 says the owner of an installation must not use it, or let anyone else use it, while it is electrically unsafe. So with your permission, eCertify switches off the affected part at the switchboard, and it stays off until it is repaired. Losing power is a real hassle, but fire and electrical safety have to come first.
Most houses that worry their owners do not need a full rewire. The signs that genuinely point that way are consistent rather than occasional: cloth-covered or rubber-insulated cable, no earth wire on the lighting circuit, a switchboard still running ceramic fuses, insulation that crumbles when handled, and repeated faults across different circuits rather than one.
One flickering light is not a rewire. eCertify would rather tell you that than sell you one.
eCertify has set out how to tell whether a house actually needs rewiring, and why most of the ones we inspect do not.
Age alone does not condemn an installation, and eCertify sees plenty of older homes in good order. What matters is the material, the condition and what has been added to it since.
The real risk in a mid-century Auckland home is usually not the original wiring. It is the forty years of additions made to it, some of them undocumented, some of them not done by an electrician. That is what a check looks for.
A house from the 1920s with sound wiring and a modern switchboard can be safer than a 1990s house that has been badly modified.
In the roof space, older Auckland homes typically show black rubber-sheathed cable, or cotton or cloth-covered cable, sometimes run in metal conduit. Newer work is grey or white PVC. If you can see cracked, sticky or crumbling insulation, stop touching it and book a check.
Green corrosion around cable ends is worth mentioning when you book. So is any cable that has been extended with a twist and tape rather than a proper connection.
By testing it with instruments, as well as looking at it. A tested inspection measures insulation resistance, earth continuity, loop impedance and RCD trip times, then compares each reading against the limits in the wiring rules. eCertify's NZ$99.90 home electrical safety check in Auckland (including GST, until 30 November 2026) is the visual part on its own, and it is honest about what that can and cannot show. eCertify's tested inspections, such as the pre-purchase inspection, include the testing.
No. eCertify's safety check report is a different document to a Certificate of Compliance (COC) or an Electrical Safety Certificate (ESC). Your report sets out what was seen and what it means. A COC or ESC is the certifying document issued for electrical work itself. eCertify's guide to what an Electrical Safety Certificate covers, and what a real one looks like sets out the difference and shows what each document actually contains.
eCertify's tested inspections compare every reading against AS/NZS 3000, the wiring rules used across New Zealand. The home electrical safety check is a visual check, so it takes no readings: its report rates what was seen and recommends what to do next. eCertify's broader guide to what an electrical safety check covers, and how often goes through this in more depth.
It tells you whether what can be seen points that way, such as rubber or cloth cable or no earth on the lighting, and the report recommends the next step. Confirming a rewire takes testing. eCertify does not price rewiring work from a price list, because the cost depends on the house. The full picture, including what a rewire actually costs and the cheaper alternatives to a full rewire, is in eCertify's guide to whether a house actually needs rewiring.
The eCertify team carries out every home electrical safety check. You get it in writing, with the urgency of each finding stated clearly. If something needs fixing, you get a price before anyone starts, and you can use any electrician you like.
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Tell eCertify about your property and we will confirm what you need and what it costs before anything is booked.
eCertify's home electrical safety check costs NZ$99.90 including GST anywhere in Auckland, a special price until 30 November 2026 (usually NZ$249.90). That covers the callout and travel, the visual check and your written report. Any repairs are quoted separately, with no obligation.
eCertify's home electrical safety check, NZ$99.90 including GST in Auckland until 30 November 2026, is a quick first answer. It rates each area of your installation from Excellent to Unsafe, with notes, recommendations and photos. It is a visual check, so where hidden wiring needs testing, the report says so.
eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland covers the point of supply, meterboard, visible earthing, exterior fittings, mains and subcircuit cabling, switchboards, lights, outlets and switches, hot water, appliance leads and smoke alarms. Each area is rated, with notes and recommendations.
No. eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland is a visual check only. It does not measure insulation, earth continuity or RCD trip times. If you need that, eCertify will tell you which tested inspection fits and its price before anything is booked.
No. eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland gives you a written report on condition, not a certificate. If an insurer, bank, council or power company wants a certificate, you need a certificate of verification instead.
eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland takes about an hour on site for a typical home. You get a structured online report, filled in on site, with each area rated and explained, recommendations, and photos where useful.
eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland tells you what was found and how urgent it is. Repairs are quoted separately, with no obligation, and you can use any electrician you like. Anything that looks like an immediate danger is switched off with your permission until it is repaired.
eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland is carried out by the eCertify team. If anything needs fixing, you get a price first, and you can use any electrician you like.
eCertify's home electrical safety check in Auckland is a good first look at older wiring. Age alone does not condemn an installation; the material, its condition and later additions matter more. Where cable looks deteriorated, the report recommends the next step.
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