Boutiques, salons and apartments by the harbour
Double Bay is a harbourside village of boutiques, salons, cafes and consulting rooms around Cross Street, Knox Street and Bay Street, with apartment blocks behind New South Head Road. About three in four of its homes are flats. On his previous website, Peter wrote that being based in Bronte puts Double Bay only a stone's throw away, whether the job is an emergency call-out or an electrical upgrade.
- Boutiques, salons and consulting rooms around Cross Street, Knox Street and Bay Street, where shop fit out work is finished to match the shopfront
- Display and track lighting chosen for colour as well as brightness, part of lighting design
- Apartment blocks where changing recessed light fittings or wiring counts as a minor renovation under NSW strata rules
For an emergency electrician in Double Bay, call Peter on 0415 684 120. Ambient Electrical is an emergency electrician for the Eastern Suburbs and takes calls 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Double Bay is about 3 km from Bronte, where Peter is based. Response is often within the hour.
Recent work in Double Bay
Emergency callout: three-phase main switch fault in Double Bay
- When
- October 2026
- Where
- Double Bay
The problem: The three-phase isolator on a sub-board upstairs, which controls the oven and power circuits, was not working properly.
What Peter did:
- Tested the 32 A three-phase main switch in the main switch room, on its supply side and its load side
- Supply side: 415 volts between every pair of phases, as it should be
- Load side: 415 volts between two of the phases, but 240 volts across the other two pairs, where 415 should be
- Found no continuity through the main switch on the third phase (the blue cable)
The result: The fault was in the main switch downstairs, not the sub-board upstairs. The fix is to replace it with a new 32 A three-phase main switch from a reputable brand.
My recommendation, folks, is to stay with the reputable brands.
The full job write-up, with Peter's video
