If water got into power points or the switchboard
Turn off the main switch only if you can reach it without standing in water. Otherwise keep clear and ring Endeavour Energy on 131 003. Leave anything that got wet switched off until a licensed electrician has tested it, and call the SES on 132 500 for storm or flood help with the house.
Fairfield's homes, power and history
Endeavour network
Ausgrid's checker lists Endeavour Energy for 2165.
1950s growth
Ex-servicemen and European migrants arrived after the war, and Housing Commission development in the 1950s swelled the population to 38,000.
Walk-ups and a few towers
Three-storey flats ring the town centre, and the first high-rise, around 9 to 11 storeys, went up in the mid-2000s. Flats were 46.0% of homes in 2021.
Renters
57.5% of homes were rented at the 2021 Census.
Older still
A Federation weatherboard cottage in Lawson Street dates from around 1910.
For Fairfield landlords
With most homes rented, many jobs here are booked by owners and agents. In NSW any electrical fault is an urgent repair, and that includes a safety switch that trips for no clear reason.
Hardwired smoke alarms must be repaired or replaced by a licensed electrician, within two business days of the landlord learning one isn't working.
The condition report at the start of a tenancy records whether there's a safety switch and whether it works, and testing it is the only way to know.
What we'd do in Fairfield
If you own an older Fairfield rental, book one inspection that covers the board, safety switches and smoke alarms together, and keep the paperwork. It turns three possible urgent call-outs into one planned visit.
Want a specialist to sort it?
Tell us the job and your postcode. We match the licence-checked local electrician who does this kind of work, and they call you. No ring-around, and your number goes to them alone.