Yagoona's older brick homes sit on wide blocks with tall gums along the back fences, and every serious storm brings a run of calls about leaning and broken private poles. High Demand Electrical is a Level 2 ASP accredited contractor (Licence 397193C) covering Yagoona and the surrounding Canterbury-Bankstown suburbs — making storm-damaged poles safe, repairing or replacing them, and reconnecting your supply to the Endeavour Energy network.
Storm Damage Power Pole Repair in Yagoona
Once a private pole has been hit by a storm, the clock is running. The service line feeding your house is being pulled in a direction it was never designed for, and the strain carries straight through to the point of attachment, the meter box and the consumer mains behind it. A pole still upright after a storm is not necessarily a pole that is safe.
We work across Yagoona, Bankstown, Bass Hill, Birrong, Condell Park and Chester Hill with 24/7 emergency power pole service, immediate make-safe for fallen poles, and emergency pole replacement where the timber cannot be saved.
How Urgent Is Your Storm-Damaged Pole?
Why Yagoona Sees So Much Storm Pole Damage
Yagoona is flat, inland and open, which sounds like it should be a mild spot for weather. In practice that flatness is the problem — there is nothing to break up a westerly gust front before it reaches the back yards, so wind arrives across the whole suburb at once rather than in pockets. The big trees left standing between older properties then act like sails on the poles and service lines running past them.
The housing stock here is mostly post-war brick on large blocks, and a large share of those properties still have their original private pole. Hardwood set in the ground in that era is now well past the point where the butt can be trusted, and the rot sits below the surface where nobody sees it. Meanwhile the granny flats and dual occupancies that have gone in behind so many Yagoona houses have added load and extra runs of cable to poles that were sized for one modest home.
Yagoona is supplied by Endeavour Energy. Endeavour maintains the numbered street poles and the network mains. Your private pole, standing on your own land with your service line attached to it, is the owner's responsibility — which is why the network will make the street safe after a storm but will not repair the pole in your yard.
Choose Your Situation — See What We Do
What Happens When Your Yagoona Pole Comes Down
- Stay at least 8 metres back from the pole and any conductor on the ground, and keep everyone else back too. Assume the wire is live. If lines are down or arcing, report it to Endeavour Energy on 131 003, then call us.
- We attend and make the site safe. As a Level 2 ASP we can isolate and disconnect the service at the point of attachment, secure anything unstable and clear the hazard from driveways and paths.
- We inspect the pole from the butt up — ground-line condition, cross arms, stays, service cable and point of attachment — and tell you honestly whether it can be recovered.
- We repair or replace. Depending on what we find that is straightening and re-footing, a new cross arm, or a full replacement pole.
- We reconnect the supply and handle the notification to Endeavour ourselves, so the paperwork side is finished before we leave.
From Storm-Damaged to Reconnected — Click Through the 6 Steps
Storm Damage We Repair Across Yagoona
These are the failures we see most often on Yagoona properties once a front has been through.
- Poles snapped at the ground line — decades-old hardwood that has rotted from the inside at the butt and given way under wind load.
- Leaning poles after heavy rain — saturated clay lets the footing shift, and the pole starts pulling the service line out of alignment.
- Split and broken cross arms — usually a branch strike, and always a reason to keep clear until the conductors are secured.
- Service cable failures — stretched, chafed or torn out at the terminations, resolved with service cable replacement.
- Point of attachment damage — brackets pulled out of fascia boards and eaves, taking the timber with them.
- Pole-top and connection burning — arcing at loose or storm-strained connections, which is a job for a Level 2 crew and nobody else.
Insurance & What’s Usually Covered
What's typically NOT covered: wear-and-tear, gradual rot or rust, or failure caused by a pre-existing defect notice you hadn't rectified. Our written cause report helps insurers distinguish sudden events from gradual failure — and we handle insurance claims every week.
FAQs
Is the pole in my back yard mine or Endeavour's?
If it sits on your land and carries the service line into your house, it is a private pole and the owner is responsible for it. The numbered poles along the street belong to Endeavour Energy. It is a common surprise for Yagoona owners after a storm, because the network will attend the street and then explain that the pole in the yard is not theirs to fix.
Can a storm-damaged pole be repaired, or does it always need replacing?
It depends entirely on where the damage is. If the shaft is sound and the problem is a lean, a broken cross arm or a damaged stay, we can usually repair it in place. If the butt has rotted or the timber has split through, replacement is the only safe outcome — patching a failed pole just moves the failure a few weeks down the track.
Can a storm-damaged pole be repaired, or does it always need replacing?
It depends entirely on where the damage is. If the shaft is sound and the problem is a lean, a broken cross arm or a damaged stay, we can usually repair it in place. If the butt has rotted or the timber has split through, replacement is the only safe outcome — patching a failed pole just moves the failure a few weeks down the track.
The power is out but the pole looks fine. Do I still need an electrician?
Quite often, yes. Storm damage to the service cable, the point of attachment or the connections at the pole top can cut supply with nothing obvious visible from the ground. If your neighbours have power and you do not, the fault is almost certainly on your side of the network and a Level 2 ASP is the right call.
There is a branch resting on my service line. What should I do?
Do not touch it and do not let anyone try to pull it off, including a tree contractor. A branch on a line can be energised and can bring the whole span down when it moves. Keep everyone at least 8 metres clear, call us, and we will isolate and make the line safe before any tree work happens.
Will my insurance cover storm damage to a private power pole?
Many home policies do cover a private pole as a structure on the property, but cover varies a great deal between insurers and some exclude poles that have failed through rot rather than storm force. We can provide a written condition report and photographs of what we found, which is what an insurer generally asks for. Check the wording with your insurer before you assume either way.
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