Builders Power Pole - 2023 Update

2024 Premium Builders Power Poles 

Epping Electrical is again taking orders for Single Phase Power poles for Builders / Owner Builders who would prefer not to hire the facility but rather sell the pole when no-longer needed. 

By far the best builders power poles in Victoria!  

Recent customer feedback - May 2020.  "These are the best made poles I have seen in a very long time, the workmanship is excellent"   


Single Phase Overhead Power Poles
The New Single Phase Overhead Power Poles are complete and ready for installation by qualified persons within the state of Victoria excluding Bush Fire Prone Areas.  


Single Phase Overhead Poles - $2150 each  including GST with delivery or $1,950 each including GST pick up from Menzies Creek.


Availability - Only one for immediate delivery/pickup (as at Jan 3 2024).   Special Price $1,600 pick up.

Typically built to order, approx 5 business days after receipt of payment.

Installation not included, have your local electrician install and submit paperwork for connection.

These premium power poles are made by a fully qualified electrician and include only high level quality materials including B&R V5 Meter Box and Clipsal Equipment.  

Premium Single Phase Overhead Power Poles Include the following: - 

40A Single Phase Supply, 5.4 Meter Cypress Pine Post with rounded corners.

Galvanized Pole Cap, Treated Pine Timber Stays & Stakes, B&R V5 Compact Meter Box (Steel), 

Mains Connection Box, Overhead Supply Hook, Clipsal 40A Main Switch, Clipsal 20A RCBO (Circuit Breaker / Safety Switch), Two Hager 10A Outlets, Earth Stake / Tag and Clip, Bootlace connections, Power Industry Padlock, laminated installation guide.  Depth Marker @ 800mm above ground level.  (1.2m in ground minimum). 

Optional delivery to site (Melbourne Metro Areas Only) 

 

 

Meets all requirements of ESV Guidelines - To see details - Click Here

Builders Power Pole prepared by fully licensed personnel - REC 10825

Geoff Connor

0431 232 796
1300 232 796

Helpful Electrician Test

So you are looking for an Electrician to do some work for you.  How do you know what the person is like?  Will the person do great work at a reasonable price and be there for you when you need them next?

Geoff Connor - 0431 232 796

Today there are many Electrical Franchise business operating, when you use one of these services, you just don't know who you will get.  There also new start-up Electrical Business run by in-experienced people, more then 50% of these don't last most than 12 months.  Knowing a Local Electrician you can trust that has been operating for many years is your goal.

So how can you tell if the person who answers the phone will help solve your problem today and is someone you can trust vs someone who is just interested to make an easy dollar?

Here are a few suggestions.

1/  Look for Local Electricians with good reviews, but remember many reviews online are written by the owners for their own business, so don't rely just on reviews.

2/  Look for Local Electricians that offer Lifetime Workmanship Warranty.  These Electricians will take the time to do your job right, that's how they can offer the warranty.


3/  Call a Local Electrician's number, if there is no answer or if a call center operator answers your call, call the next Local Electrician.

4/  When you actually speak to an Electrician, tell the electrician that some of your power points in your house are not working. 

If the Electrician asks if you have checked your Switchboard and continues to help you resolve the problem over the phone at no charge, you may have just found a Trusted and Helpful Local Electrician.

If the Electrician immediately asks for your address and details and tells you they will be there at some point.  Thank the person and call another Local Electrician.  As 90% of these types of problems can be resolved over the phone at NO COST!

5/  Remember if you are not being helped today and your questions are not being clearly answered at the first phone call, how well do you think this person will help you after the work is done? 


The way I run my business is different to most others.  I actually enjoy helping people.  I assist many people over the phone each week to resolve their Electrical problem or at the very least, help them reduce the impact of the problem so there is less urgent need to get out on site late at night over the weekend.

I challenge you to call my number (0431 232 796) anytime and put me to the test.  Ask me any question and test how helpful you think I am.  Once I do work for you, I am sure my business card will be on your fridge for many years to come. 


Geoff Connor

Testimonials

  See our True Local profile and reviews online.

CUSTOMER TESTIMONIALS  

Thanks Geoff for your excellent work on my recent rewire and switchboard replacement. Very happy with the work you have done.
Geoff provided excellent communication, was able to give me a quote on the spot and then when the guys did the work they spent a solid day working on what was a big job, got it done in time, and more importantly right on budget.
Thanks again! I highly recommend Geoff and Epping Electrical!
On Truelocal.com , Customer from Reservoir, 12th October 2009

Geoff responded to my email query within hours and arranged to come over at a mutually convenient time. He turned up on time, quickly and efficiently completed the requested tasks and was very accommodating when it unexpectedly turned from a small job into a much bigger one. He completed the electrical safety certificate on the spot and carried on his way leaving one very satisfied customer behind. What's more, he cleaned up after himself! As someone who has had several bad experiences with electricians I would wholeheartedly recommend Epping Electrical to anyone who's looking for a truly professional electrician
On Truelocal.com, Customer from Lalor, 23rd May 2009

Geoff Connor, Completed my electrical work in a professional manner. Quotation was very reasonable and I would highly recommend his company
Mrs K Thompson For an outdoor electrical socket in Moonee Ponds On ServiceSeeking.com.au

Improving your Home Wifi signal strength

How is your home Wifi signal strength?  Do you have areas where there is little or no Wifi signal at all?  Have you tried to fix it but were unable to resolve your issue?   

I will try to explain the issues simply and provide practical solutions that will work for you.  Like most things, there is a limit to the Wifi radio signal being received by devices around the home.  You will know that the Wifi signal strength is shown by the number of bars on your Wifi icon.  All the bars indicates excellent Wifi strength, no bars mean, well I think if you are reading this you know what that means.

Clearly the further your device is away from your Wifi Router the less signal strength you will receive.  So how do you fix this so your home has better Wifi signal and fewer 'dead spots'?  

I will assume that you have heard of Wifi extenders or Wifi repeaters.  Go to any Office Works store and you will find plenty of them.  You will also find Ethernet Power Adapters that can provide a virtual Ethernet cable connection using your home electrical wiring.  From my experience these solution rarely are very effective.  If you have one of these solutions and it is working ok well that's fine.    

Here are my best solutions to fix Wifi signal issues.

1/ Relocate your router to a central location within the home to provide a better signal to all areas.
2/ Install your Wifi Router at one end of the house and then add another Wifi Router at the other end.

Tip - These days many people have an old Wifi Router collecting dust somewhere.  These will work perfectly as a second Wifi Router. 

Terminology - 
IP address - A numerical 4 part number displayed as xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Subnet Mask - A numerical 4 part number displayed as nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn to determine the number of addresses within the Local Network.
Gateway - A IP address of the Router that is the way out of the Local Network.
DNS - The Internet directory that stores all Internet Names and associated IP addresses.  
DHCP - The system that automatically allocates IP addresses to devices when they connect to the Local Network.
DHCP Range - The pool of addresses the DHCP server can allocate from.

Any good electrician can help you relocate your router or install a new Ethernet cable but very few will know how to configure multiple Wifi Routers on a home Local Area Network.  So, have your electrician install the Ethernet cable and setup your additional Router yourself.

So this is what you have to do to add an additional Wifi Router/s on your network.

A/  Existing Router - Change the DHCP range to free up some addresses for the additional Router/s.
B/  Additional Router/s - Enter an IP address to the additional Router/s that was made available in the previous step.  Disable WAN connection, Disable DHCP, add the Gateway and DNS IP's as the existing Router IP Address.  Define a Wifi name/s and password/s on the additional Router/s.
C/  Connect an Ethernet cable from the existing Router LAN port to the additional Router LAN port.
D/  Setup both Wifi networks on your mobile devices, use the Wifi network that is closer to you for best speed and reliability.

How to do this you ask?

1/ Open a command prompt on a pc connected to your existing router.  Use the CMD command.
2/ Type IPCONFIG/ALL
3/ Look for your Gateway IP address.  Typically it is either 192.168.1.1 or 10.1.1.1
4/ Open a browser and enter your gateway IP
5/ Your existing Router login page should be displayed.  Login with its usercode and password.
6/ Go to the LAN section, you will see the Router IP and Subnet mask there.  Typically the Mask will be 255.255.255.0  (This defines the number of Network IP addresses)  Look for the DHCP range.  Typically it will be either 192.168.1.2 to 192.168.1.254 or 10.1.1.2 to 10.1.1.254 depending on your LAN IP addresses.
7/  Change the starting IP that will be allocated to devices to allow room for the additional Routers.  Eg.  DHCP Range 192.168.1.10 to 192.168.1.254.  This will allow us to allocate up to eight additional routers.  (IP's *.2 *.3 *.4 ... *.9).  Devices will be allocated addresses *.10 thru *.254.  I doubt you will have more than 200 devices at home :).
8/ Save your changes and re-confirm your changes are correct and saved.
9/ Disconnect your PC from the existing Router (Wifi or Ethernet Cable) and connect your PC to the additional Router either via an Ethernet Cable or Wifi.
10/  If you dont know the Wifi password for the additional Router, you will need to use a cable.
11/  Ensure you are connected and open a browser and enter the additional Router IP.  Again it typically will be either 192.168.1.1 or 10.1.1.1.   Look at the Router label, it usually has the factory default IP details there.
12/ Your additional Router login page should be displayed.  Login with its usercode and password.
13/ Go to the WAN section and disable WAN connections.
14/ Go to the Wireless section and add a new Wifi name and password.
15/ Go to the LAN section and disable DHCP.
16/  Change the additional Router IP to one you made available in step 7.  eg.  192.168.1.2, change the gateway IP and DNS IP to the existing Routers' IP.  eg.  192.168.1.1.  Save your changes.

Note: You will loose your view to the Router once it re-boots as it no-longer has the old IP.

17/ Enter the new additional Router IP in the browser address bar.
18/ Login and check all your changes.
19/ Remove the Ethernet cable from your PC and connect it to your existing Router LAN port.
20/ Connect to the additional Router Wifi network (as per Step 14) and test you have access to the Internet.
21/ If this is working, you can relocate the additional Router to the other end of your house where poor Wifi signal exists.  You may need help to have an Ethernet cable installed between the old and new Router locations.  Cat5e or Cat6 will work just fine for a home network.

Tip - You can use any address for the additional Router but it MUST be within the LAN IP Range and MUST NOT be within the DHCP Range.  IP conflicts may occur if you get this wrong.  Be aware of any static IP usage.  Look in the Port Forwarding section of your Router to see if anyone has setup a specific IP for external access.  These static IP's are for devices that do NOT use DHCP.  These static IP's must NOT be within the DHCP range.  This instruction is suitable for most home and small office networks with less than 250 devices.   

Need help?  Send me an email, tell me your problem and I will try to help you out. 

Call Geoff on 0431 232 796 or email Geoff@EppingElectrical.com 

New Smart Lighting and Control

The future is here......  Smart Lighting Control at an affordable price.  Imagine having energy saving lighting that you can turn on, turn off, dim up and down and even change the color temperature from Cool to Warm depending on your own preference per room.  All this from your smart phone.....

G-Smart Lighting and automation moves your new or existing home into the 21st century.  Imagine being able to turn every light on and off with a press of a single button.  The convenience of this solution is un-limited.  You will be amazed with the pricing.   

I was so impressed with this product, I have now obtained Exclusive Distributorship of the product range in Victoria.  goSmart Lighting is the new Trading Name for this new operation.   See www.goSmartlighting.com.au  for more information. 

Call Geoff on 0431 232 796 

sales@goSmartLighting.com.au
or
Geoff@EppingElectrical.com