Private power pole replacement across Sydney. Single day swap.

If the pole sits on your land between the street network and your house, it's almost always a private power pole and your responsibility, not Ausgrid's or Endeavour Energy's. The network owns the conductor up to the point of attachment on their last pole; everything past that down the private span and into the pole on your block is yours. Postcode tells us which network covers the connection, but ownership of the timber or steel in the ground is the landowner's.

A pole gets condemned when the timber is rotting at ground level, when there's termite or fire damage to the load-bearing section, when it's leaning past the safe angle, when the point of attachment hardware is corroded through, or when the network issues a defect notice on it. A sound-test at the base usually answers it in five minutes: solid timber rings, rotten timber thuds. Acreage poles down long driveways in Dural, Glenhaven or the Hawkesbury cop the worst of it. If your insurer or property manager has asked for a written inspection on a private pole, we issue a Level 2 ASP inspection report you can hand straight to them.

Hardwood is cheaper up front and still common in older suburbs across the Inner West and Eastern Suburbs. Galvanised steel costs more but lasts longer, especially on coastal blocks around Bondi, Coogee and the Northern Beaches where salt eats hardware fast, and on bushfire-prone acreage in the Blue Mountains. We match the pole to the site, the span length, the load and how long you want it to stand.

No. Work on the service line, the point of attachment, the pole itself and the connection back to the network requires Level 2 ASP accreditation. Thorntek holds Level 2 ASP 4869 with both Ausgrid and Endeavour Energy, covering overhead, underground and metering across the two networks we operate in.

For a straight like-for-like swap we typically isolate, swap and re-energise inside a single working day. Where the consumer mains are being upsized or the meter is moving at the same time the on-site window extends. Either way we book the isolation, coordinate everything, and confirm your outage window in writing the day before — usually an 8am start, power back on by knock-off. No open-ended waits.

Shared poles are common on battle-axe subdivisions, shared rural-residential easements and duplex driveway blocks. The fair split is usually proportional to who benefits, but the legal answer depends on the easement on the title. We inspect, write a clear report each owner can hand to the other, and quote the works once you agree how to share it. The pole still needs replacing either way.

Text three photos to 1300 58 58 16 and we'll usually call back the same day with a plain answer on whether the pole needs replacing, whether the attachment hardware is the real issue, or whether you've just got a sagging line that needs re-tensioning. If a physical inspection is needed, we book it inside the same week across Sydney metro, the Hills, Hawkesbury, Blue Mountains. Emergency leaners after a storm get prioritised.

Most domestic swaps land in a predictable range. The variables are pole type, span length, whether the consumer mains need upsizing at the same time, whether the meter is moving, and access — a flat, open driveway is straightforward, a steep or tight block that needs an EWP and traffic control is not. The photos give us enough to send a firm quote without a site visit charge.