Twenty answers, at the length they deserve

No. Surveys, quotations and the first consultation are free and carry no obligation. We will also tell you at that meeting if the work does not need doing, which happens more often than you would think.

Directly employed, Safe Electric registered electricians in company vans, all Garda vetted. You get the name and mobile number of the supervisor before work starts, and it does not change mid-job.

Dust sheets down before anything is opened, a tidy site every evening, and a full clean at completion. Chasing is done with dust extraction, not a hammer and a hoover afterwards.

Munster and Leinster from our Cork base, with a second team covering Dublin and the commuter counties. Anything more than ninety minutes from an office is quoted with travel stated openly on the page.

A full test of every circuit — insulation resistance, earth fault loop impedance, RCD operation, polarity and continuity — written up with each observation classified C1, C2 or C3 so you know what is dangerous, what is potentially dangerous and what is merely improvable.

It means no automatic disconnection in the event of an earth fault, which is the protection that stops a shock becoming an electrocution. It is the single highest-value upgrade in most older Irish homes.

Mains-powered interlinked alarms are required in dwellings built or materially altered since 1991, and in all rental properties. Retrofitting them is straightforward — radio-interlinked units avoid running new cable through finished ceilings.

A Type 2 surge protective device clamps voltage spikes from lightning or grid switching before they reach your equipment. With a heat pump, PV inverter, EV charger and a house full of electronics, the maths now favours fitting one.

Only where we can verify it. That usually means testing every circuit involved and, in some cases, opening accessories to inspect terminations. We will quote for that honestly rather than sign something we have not seen.

No. We specify systems that expose native Apple Home, Google Home and Alexa integrations, so you are not locked in when you change phones. The wall keypads work regardless of what any of them do.

Often, yes. Retractive keypads and in-ceiling dimming modules can go into existing back boxes where the switch drops are usable. We survey first and tell you honestly which rooms will need a cable and which will not.

A standard 7.4kW home installation runs from about €1,100 fitted and certified, before the SEAI grant of up to €300. Long cable runs, three-phase units or a required board upgrade add to that, and we state which apply before you commit.

Only with a three-phase supply, which most Irish homes do not have. On a single-phase supply the practical ceiling is 7.4kW, which still adds around 30km of range per hour — more than enough overnight.

For a board change, three to five hours in one day. For a rewire, we work circuit by circuit so you keep power to most of the house on most days — the schedule of outages is written into the programme before we start.

Emergencies are answered in under sixty seconds and attended within three hours across Cork city and county. Routine appointments are typically within three to five working days, and larger installations are programmed four to six weeks out.

Small works are invoiced on completion. Larger installations run on staged payments against work genuinely completed — never a large deposit up front — with the final payment due after testing and handover of the certificate pack.