Test and Tag Miramar

Test and tag confirms that the plug-in electrical equipment in your Miramar workplace is safe to use. We look over each item, test it with a portable appliance tester, fit a tag with the test date and hand you a register of everything checked. Anything that fails is taken out of service and reported to you on the spot.

Workshops, studios and post-production: test and tag in Miramar

Miramar is home to a cluster of film and screen businesses, including workshops, studios and post-production houses around the old National Film Unit site. That means a lot of equipment that is not found in an ordinary office: lighting stands and their leads, prop and model workshops full of saws and sanders, sewing machines, hot glue and heat guns, and racks of computers in edit suites.

Workshops building props or sets are on the same footing as any manufacturing floor. Tools are used for long days, leads are run across busy floors and chairs, and cords get nicked by blades. A shorter retest interval suits that work, and we flag cracked plugs, damaged cord grips and missing earth pins at the inspection stage. Edit suites and offices can sit on a much longer cycle, so the register keeps the two separate.

Much of the gear in this industry is hired out or lent to crews working on location. Regulation 26 treats hired or supplied equipment as safe when it has an in-date AS/NZS 3760 tag, or when it is fed through RCD protection, so a hire house in Miramar usually tests and tags before anything leaves the store. Miramar's flat basin and good parking make it easy to bring the tester in and work through a large store in batches, starting with gear booked to go out first.

Local tip: If you run hire gear out of Miramar, put a returns shelf aside so items coming back from location can be inspected before they go back into stock.

Test and Tag in Miramar: Local Conditions

In the eastern and southern suburbs we test in shops and cafés in Kilbirnie and Miramar, businesses near the airport and production and workshop spaces around Miramar. Larger sites are done in stages to keep work moving.

Equipment used outdoors near the sea, such as cleaning gear and outdoor heaters, wears faster in salt air.

Homes in Miramar

Most Miramar houses date from after the trams arrived in 1907, including bungalows and early state houses. Homes from the first half of the 20th century may still have rubber-insulated cable in places and switchboards with rewireable fuses and no RCD protection. Many have been extended over the years, which often leaves a board with no spare space. Flat sections and garages make Miramar one of the easier suburbs for adding an EV charger, once the board has the capacity for a dedicated circuit.

The low-lying centre of the suburb was a lagoon known as Para Lake or Burnham Water, which is now covered by houses, streets, parks and shops.

You will often see our vans near Mt Crawford and Weta Workshop on the way to a job in Miramar. For everything else, see electricians in Miramar.

How We Handle Test and Tag in Miramar

We remind you when retesting is due and book a visit that suits your Miramar business, so the register stays current.

Pricing: a free quote and a fixed price agreed before we start. You get a written, itemised quote, and small jobs can be quoted from photos.

Test and Tag Jobs We Do in Miramar

Scheduled retest visit
Failed plugs and leads replaced
Warehouse testing in stages
Retail store testing
Early childhood centre equipment