The Faraday Group Blog

Pendant lights are a super popular and stylish way to add some luxury to a home without spending a small fortune. As specialists in lighting installs, we've worked with our fair share of pendant lights. We've installed some super cheap pendants, and we've installed pendants that have come from Europe and cost thousands of dollars. Read More

Testing and Tagging: Required by Law We're lucky enough to live in a country that has a lot of laws to help protect us. Sometimes when you're an employer, it can feel a bit frustrating to have to comply with everything - but when the alternative is having an employee get seriously hurt, it's Read More

We've been having a big batch of WiFi upgrades come through lately. Sometimes, it's businesses that have issues with their WiFi and want us to fix it. Other times, it's businesses that only have plug in Internet and want to add WiFi. Either way, in these situations our job is usually to upgrade their WiFi Read More

It's awesome when everything is working, but have you ever thought about what happens when things STOP working? Power outages are a pretty common occurrence here in Sydney, and for many businesses having the power go out can be disastrous. How often are there power outages anyway? I know stats aren't all that exciting, but Read More

DALI (Digital Addressable Lighting Interface) is a really cool system to control lights. It's based on specifications developed by some of the leading lighting manufacturers around the world. Why does that matter? Read on and find out! What is DALI? DALI stands for Digital Addressable Lighting Interface. It's a two way communication system that brings Read More

When you have a shop or store, the look and feel can make such a huge difference to whether customers are happy to walk through the door - or whether they try to leave as soon as they possibly can. Part of that fitout is definitely the department of your electrician, so if you want Read More

If there's one little device in your house that is absolutely responsible for saving your life, without question that would be the humble smoke alarm. Yup. The smoke alarm. I know you're probably thinking "of course the smoke alarm is important" - but when was the last time you checked it? They don't just magically Read More

With the way power prices are heading, getting solar is a GREAT idea. You can generate your own power, and some bills you might even end up with a credit! Amazing stuff, right? But before you rush out to get Solar installed, there’s something you need to know - especially if you have an older Read More

It should come as no surprise that we do a lot of commercial electrical work. I mean, we've worked on projects ranging from fixing up some minor wiring issues, to complete shop fitouts, to warehouse LED lighting upgrades, through to revamping entire shopping centres. Over the years, we've collaborated with a bunch of other electricians Read More

We do a lot of work for warehouses, and they’re usually pretty good clients for us. They’re big, they have a lot of equipment, and everything has to run properly so they don’t lose money. With everyone wanting to be more green, we thought we’d put together this post to demonstrate some power saving tips Read More

If you have an office, the last thing you want is to have an employee hurt themselves. Not only is that bad for the employee, but you could be in breach of your obligations as an employer to provide a safe working environment for your employees. As much as we'd like to tell you all Read More

One of the hardest things when you’re looking for any service provider is making sure you’ve got someone good. Before they start, you have no way of telling if their actual work is going to be of good quality. Sometimes, you can’t really tell after the fact either! So how would you know if Read More

As it gets closer and closer to the only time of the year you actually want a fat bloke in a red suit to break into your home, we get to have fun with Christmas decorations. The old Christmas Tree gets brought out of the garage, dusted off and then coated in baubles, candy canes, Read More

There’s a feeling of dread when AusGrid or Endeavour Energy come to your house and issue you with an electrical defect. Considering a lot of the work we do as Level 2 Electricians is fixing electrical defects, we wrote up up a little guide to help. This guide outlines what an electrical defect is, common Read More

We've written about the Energy Savings Certificate Scheme (ESC) recently, but have come across a situation that we felt important to warn people about. See, a lot of businesses get approached to upgrade their LED lighting - often with some really amazing sounding deals. These companies can come in and upgrade you to LED lighting, Read More

Running an office can get tricky. You have staff, supplies, cleaning, and a whole bunch of other day to day stuff to worry about that most people never even think about. And if you drop the ball, you can end up with a bunch of people not working for the day. With all this day Read More

If you have a business in NSW, odds are you've had a salesman knock on your office, shop or warehouse some time in the past few years wanting to talk about getting cheap LED lighting (they were even offering "free" LED lighting a while back). Typical scam, right? Well, not exactly. The door to door Read More

Winter is coming! That's not just a line from one of my favourite TV shows, but something that's happening right now. In Sydney, the past few days have been getting much colder and the heating has been going full force. The problem with that - when the heat goes on, the power bill goes up! We Read More

Sometimes you don't have easy access to your street network power supply, so a private power pole might be required. A private power pole is a privately owned electricity source that connects your house to the public power supply by running cables from the public power to the private pole situated on your property. Why Read More

In the 21st century, most of us are so accustomed to electricity that we don't think twice before flipping a switch or turning on our electric gadgets. Dozens of years of innovations have made electricity as safe as possible so we can use it confidently at home and work. However, in spite of these innovations, Read More