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Quick answers for electricians weighing up whether to join. Where the answer lives in your written agreement, we say so rather than guess. For more detail, read how leads work and pricing.
Only one electrician ever gets a homeowner's contact details. Every homeowner agrees to be contacted by one local electrician before their job is shown to anyone. And we don't do electrical work, so we'll never be quoting against you.
Questions
Other checked electricians who cover the area can see the job, the first name and the suburb until someone takes it. The first to take it gets the contact details, and nobody else ever does.
Your price is set out in writing in your agreement, before you take any job. We're also weighing up an exclusive-area option, and pricing explains how the two would differ.
Your postcodes, and the kinds of job you've shown us evidence for. Being nearby isn't enough on its own: a switchboard job only reaches you if switchboards are on your list.
After two days untaken, a job can be shown to electricians elsewhere in the same region. If you'll travel for your kind of work, that's extra work you can pick up.
Registration with the Electrical Workers Registration Board (EWRB) and a current practising licence, renewed every 2 years, in a class that covers the work. We check both on the public register before you see any job.
Yes. We need a current public liability insurance certificate and an active NZBN.
Aim for within the hour. That's the contact time in your agreement.
Tell us. What happens next is set out in writing in your agreement, before you take any job.
The term, and how you'd pause or leave, are set out in writing in your agreement before you take any job. Read it before you sign.
You do. Every job gets an ESC, general and high-risk work also need a CoC, and for high-risk work you arrange a licensed electrical inspector for the Record of Inspection. Certificates are due within the EWRB's time limit, and you keep the records for 7 years.
Yes, as evidence of the jobs you do when you apply, as long as they describe the work. Reviews from any site can help.
No. We're a referral service: we don't quote, visit or do electrical work, so we're never competing with you.
Related help
Rules change, so check with the EWRB, WorkSafe or Tenancy Services if something matters to your job. How we write and check these pages.