An electrical plan is a blueprint for your electrician to show them where the wiring in your new build or renovation needs to go, and there’s a lot more to it than you might think. Ultimately, your electrical plan needs to suit your lifestyle, so this should be the starting point when considering your requirements.
- Who will be living in your home? Do you have small children, teenagers or elderly parents? All have their own needs eg. Ethernet cabling for teenage gamers, heat pumps for your grandparents’ room, or night lights for the nursery.
- Lifestyle – do you like to entertain on a regular basis? Will one of your rooms be used as a workspace? Does your kitchen contain more appliances than a Noel Leeming store, thus requiring extra 3 phase cabling?
- Functional requirements – Will you be installing heat pumps? A security camera on your door? Is sensor lighting in the hallway something to consider if you often need to go to the loo in the middle of the night? What about LED strip lighting on your staircase?
With so many details to take into consideration, we strongly recommend you make an appointment to go through your plans, room by room, with an experienced Master Electrician.
It’s important that you take the time to visualise how you and your family will be living in each space, and the more information you can give your electrician, the higher the likelihood that your home will work the way you need it to.
An electrical plan can save you from the potential extra cost of retrofitting wiring – as your kids grow and you realise it would have been a good idea to install Ethernet cabling to every bedroom for instance – and it will ensure you avoid the inconvenience of a power point that ends up hidden behind the headboard in your guest bedroom (we see this one all the time).
The benefits of a good electrical plan aren’t just functional, aesthetics are also important. In our mind it makes no sense to splash $40k on a beautifully-appointed, floor to ceiling tiled bathroom, replete with underfloor heating, Smart towel rails, and a fluted wood vanity, when the first thing you see as you open the door is the ceiling fan.
Here at Juice Electrical when we walk through an electrical plan with a client we take the time to ask ourselves, “how would I need this room to function if I were you?” We also have a double-check-changes policy to ensure that we; the builder, and our client are all on the same page throughout the build process. There’s a real art to getting to know a customer and asking the right questions and we reckon we’ve got it down pat, so if you’re about to embark on a new build, give us a call on 0800 277 275 or email helen@juiceelectrical.co.nz and make sure your home functions perfectly, right from the outset for you and your family.
