Hospitality fitout
Sign-off ready by opening day.
Restaurant, café and retail-hospitality fitouts in Melbourne's north — kitchen three-phase, exit-and-emergency lighting, ARCtick aircon, Certificate of Electrical Safety on file the day the building surveyor walks the site.
Quick answer
Thunderman Electrical and Air Conditioning Services handles small-to-medium hospitality electrical fitouts across Greater Melbourne's northern corridor — restaurants, cafés, retail-hospitality. Scope covers commercial-kitchen three-phase, exit-and-emergency lighting to AS 2293, ARCtick-certified aircon, dedicated POS circuits, and Certificate of Electrical Safety lodged with EnergySafe Victoria for the certifying surveyor. REC 28523, ARCtick certified, fully insured. Owner-operated by Yiannis Knodarites.
What's in scope
One licence, one accountable line.
Hospitality electrical scope is unusually wide for a single trade. You're running commercial-grade three-phase cooktops, fryers and salamanders alongside the front-of-house ambient lighting; the cool room next to the POS circuits; the exhaust hood and the make-up air next to the exit signs that need to discharge for ninety minutes if the power fails. Thunderman runs the whole electrical scope under one REC 28523 licence and adds the ARCtick certification on the same line for the commercial split or multi-head aircon. One sparky on the build, one CoES on the file at EnergySafe Victoria, one number when the certifying surveyor wants to ask a question.
The honest constraint: Thunderman is one electrician with an apprentice and a trusted-network of senior sparkies. That model carries small-to-medium hospitality fitouts cleanly inside the northern + north-western corridor of Greater Melbourne, and it carries them well — but on a tight opening-day schedule we will tell you up-front if a build needs more hands than we can put on site inside the window. The conversation about capacity happens before the deposit, not three weeks before you open.
At a glance
| Licence | REC 28523 (EnergySafe Victoria) |
|---|---|
| Air conditioning | ARCtick certified — refrigerant + electrical under one licence |
| Compliance scope | AS/NZS 3000 (Wiring Rules), AS 2293 (Emergency lighting), AS/NZS 3008 (Cable selection) |
| Certificates | CoES lodged with EnergySafe Victoria on every fixed install |
| Insurance | Full public liability and professional indemnity (COI on request) |
| Service area | Greater Melbourne & surrounds |
Standard scope items.
- Commercial-kitchen three-phase distribution (cooktops, ovens, fryers, salamanders)
- Cool-room electrical + condensate-pump dedicated circuit
- Exhaust hood, make-up air, refrigeration control circuits
- Exit-and-emergency lighting design + commissioning to AS 2293
- Dedicated POS, EFTPOS and merchant-terminal circuits with surge protection
- Front-of-house architectural + ambient lighting + dimming control
- Commercial split, multi-head + ducted aircon under ARCtick certification
- Service-area + back-of-house GPO layout, hot-water service, sub-board
- Certificate of Electrical Safety (CoES) lodged with EnergySafe Victoria
- Ongoing periodic AS 2293 testing log post-opening (6-month / 12-month cycle)
Hospitality fitout — common questions
Can you handle the electrical scope on a small Melbourne café or restaurant fitout?
Yes — small-to-medium hospitality fitouts are core Thunderman commercial work. Scope typically covers the kitchen three-phase (commercial cooktops, salamanders, ovens, fryers), the cool-room and condensate, the front-of-house lighting and GPO layout, dedicated POS-and-EFTPOS circuits, exit-and-emergency lighting to AS 2293, and the Certificate of Electrical Safety lodged with EnergySafe Victoria for the certifying surveyor.
What does a CoES + AS 2293 emergency-lighting commissioning look like before a hospitality opening?
Final electrical sign-off for a hospitality fitout in Victoria needs the Certificate of Electrical Safety (CoES) lodged for every new sub-circuit, plus AS 2293 testing on every exit sign and emergency luminaire (90-minute discharge test, fault simulation, log). Thunderman runs the testing, lodges the CoES, signs the AS 2293 log, and provides the documentation the building surveyor needs for occupancy.
How does Thunderman schedule against a locked opening date?
Honestly. Yiannis takes one hospitality fitout at a time inside the corridor, agrees a written workback schedule against the builder/surveyor program, and signposts any slip as soon as it shows up rather than burying it. Where the timeline genuinely needs more bodies than one electrician + offsider can carry inside the window, Thunderman will say so before the deposit is paid — not three weeks before opening.
Can you do the commercial aircon as part of the same fitout?
Yes. ARCtick certified for refrigerant handling means the same contractor that runs the electrical scope can also install the commercial split or multi-head aircon and certify the refrigerant work — one CoES, one licensed electrician, one accountable line through the build.
Do you do the periodic AS 2293 emergency-lighting testing after we open?
Yes. Once the fitout is open we can keep the AS 2293 testing schedule on file — the 6-monthly visual + 12-monthly 90-minute discharge test logged correctly for the building surveyor and the insurer.
Send Yiannis the plans and the opening date.
Email [email protected] with the site address, the certifying surveyor's contact, and the locked opening date — Yiannis will walk the site and write a written project quote against the program.