Twenty years on the tools, mostly within thirty kilometres of where I'm sitting now.
I started in the trade in 2005 working under another sparky in east Auckland — back then the business was called MCL Electrical. I bought it, ran it, and renamed it Redwire a few years back when it stopped feeling like the older firm and started feeling like mine. The clients didn't change. The tools got better. The job didn't.
Most of what I do is the long, slow accumulation of being in the same suburbs for two decades. People I wired a single power point for in 2008 now call me about renovations and EV chargers. The building manager who first called me five years ago about a faulty common-area light still calls me first when anything in his building needs an electrician. Two photographers I started working for in 2009 are still on my list — same studios, sixteen years on.
I'd rather have a smaller list of clients I can actually look after than a bigger list I can't. Word of mouth is the entire growth strategy and that's fine.
If we end up working together, here's what you'll get: I answer my own phone. If I can't pick up, I call back the same day. I'll come look at the job, give you a price in writing, and turn up on the day I said I would. The job will be tidy when I leave. If something's not right, I'll come back and sort it. None of this is special — it's just what doing the job properly looks like.
Kohimarama-based. Auckland-wide. One sparky, one phone, one promise.