Your electrician in Wendywood

If your home sits within a sectional title scheme or a cluster development, the roof you live under is technically common property or managed under rules of conduct. That means your body corporate or homeowners' association has to approve any structural or electrical modification before a panel goes up. We have worked through the Wendywood body-corporate approval process often enough to know what trustees typically ask for: a structural engineer's confirmation that the roof can carry the additional load, a dimensioned layout showing exact panel positions, product spec sheets for the inverter and batteries, and a written assurance that cabling will be concealed or neatly managed in conduit.

We compile the full submission pack on your behalf. That includes the site plan, mounting details, product datasheets for inverters like the Deye or Sunsynk range, and Pylontech or Hubble battery specs. We also flag shared-roof considerations upfront, which is where many body-corporate solar jobs hit snags. Where two or more units share a common roof pitch, we map out which panels will sit above which unit and ensure that generation is attributed correctly in the system design.

Load shedding pushed a lot of Wendywood homeowners toward hybrid solar over the past two years, and the cluster and townhouse format has made battery backup especially attractive. A 5kW hybrid inverter with a 5kWh Pylontech battery keeps the lights, router, fridge and a couple of wall points live through a stage 4 cutout without drawing on shared grid infrastructure. We size systems to your unit's actual consumption, not a generic template, which means your Deye or Sunsynk inverter isn't oversized for the panels it can actually fit on your section of roof.

Every solar installation we complete in Wendywood includes a full electrical certificate of compliance covering the new installation. Where the existing DB board is undersized or non-compliant for the extra circuit, we include the board upgrade in the same job. PIRB registered electricians carry out all work in line with SANS 10142 wiring standards. City Power SSEG requirements apply if you want to export surplus energy, and we include that paperwork in projects where export makes sense.

On older Wendywood properties, the most common issues we find are undersized earth conductors, single-pole breakers on ring mains that should have double-pole protection, and DB boards that pre-date the current SANS 10142 standard. None of these disqualify a property from solar, but they do need to be resolved before we can issue an electrical certificate of compliance that covers both the old installation and the new one.

A pre-solar compliance inspection usually takes around an hour. We go through the distribution board, check earth continuity, test circuit insulation resistance and confirm bonding on the geyser and stove circuits. Where faults come up, we quote separately and can generally complete remedial work on the same day or within a few days depending on the scope.

For shared roofs in cluster schemes, we also check whether the previous owner has run any non-compliant extensions or DIY wiring that the body corporate may not be aware of. This is common in older complexes where alterations were done without permits. We document what we find and advise the homeowner on the fastest path to a clean COC for the sale or for the solar install to proceed.

Whether you are buying in Wendywood and need a pre-purchase COC check, or you are a landlord needing to bring a rental property up to compliance for insurance purposes, we are ten minutes from the suburb and can usually schedule within the same week. See COC inspection details on the main site.