Level 2 ASP Electrician in Grafton

A Level 2 ASP is an Accredited Service Provider — an electrician authorised to work on the part of the network that ordinary electricians legally cannot touch. In the Clarence Valley that network belongs to Essential Energy. Anything involving the service line from the street, the point of attachment on your building or the consumer mains is Level 2 work, and it has to be lodged with Essential Energy before the power goes on. We hold that accreditation and we are a licensed electrical contractor, which means one person handles the whole job instead of two trades waiting on each other.

Where the network stops and your property starts

This is the thing almost nobody explains, and it is the source of most of the confusion and most of the unexpected bills.

The row that surprises people most is the private pole. If there is a pole on your land carrying your supply, it is yours — to maintain, to replace when it rots, and to deal with when it fails. Essential Energy will not replace it for you.

What Level 2 work actually covers

Broadly, it is everything between the network and your main switchboard.

• New connections — getting supply to a property for the first time, overhead or underground
• Disconnections and reconnections — including emergency and after-hours situations
• Consumer mains upgrades — when your existing mains are too small for what you now run
• Overhead to underground conversions — getting the wires off the front of your property
• Private pole supply, installation and replacement
• Point of attachment relocation — when a renovation or extension is in the way
• Temporary builder's supply for construction sites
• Single to three-phase upgrades

How the paperwork actually works

Level 2 work is not just physical work — it is a process with the network operator, and getting the process wrong is what causes the delays people complain about.

1. We assess on site and confirm what the job actually requires. A photo over the phone is rarely enough for Level 2 work.
2. Your retailer connection is arranged where a new supply or a new meter is involved — the meter itself is provided through your electricity retailer's metering coordinator, and the timing needs to be lined up with the physical work. We will tell you exactly what you need to ask your retailer for.
3. We do the work, including any outage required.
4. We lodge the Notification of Service Work with Essential Energy, and issue a Certificate of Compliance for the electrical work.

Skip or fumble any of those and the connection does not energise. The most common reason a new build sits without power is a paperwork sequence that nobody owned.

One contractor instead of two

The usual arrangement is that a general electrician does the switchboard and the house wiring, then everyone waits for a Level 2 mob to come and do the connection. Two quotes, two schedules, and each blaming the other when the dates slip.

We do both parts. The mains upgrade, the switchboard and the connection get sequenced as one job rather than two trades waiting on each other. On a new build that is often the difference between a week and a month.

How a level 2 asp job runs

Our level 2 asp services

Every one of these has its own page with the detail, the pricing factors and the questions we get asked most.

Where we do this work

Grafton, the suburbs around it, and the rural blocks past the edge of town.

• Grafton