If you’re renting a property, one of the last things you want to receive is a phone call from your tenants to let you know there’s a problem with your house, but if there’s one thing that’s true in life, it’s that houses cost you money. Whether it’s installing new central heating or electrical rewiring, blocked drains or a jammed window, chances are when you rent out a property, you’ll experience plenty of housing dilemmas.
Understanding Electrical Requirements and PAT Testing
Over the next few weeks I’m going to be discussing the various services electricians have to offer and breaking down the jargon so you can become a more informed customer when you need a local expert electrician to carry out work in your home or business. The first area I am going to delve into is PAT testing and the legal implications surrounding when you need to have a PAT Test carried out.
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Are you in the Know?
Thinking of having a shaving socket installed in your bathroom or maybe an extractor fan to take away the excess humidity, relatively minor home improvements or upgrades that over the course of owning a home most people undertake with little or no consideration. These types of bathroom installations and upgrades could result in you facing prosecution!!! Few home owners realise this readl, on for more information. Read more…
Disasters Or What?
I have recently moved into a new property, and at the time I knew the property needed some home improvements, but I obviously didn’t fully understand the concept of “some home improvements”. The first day I moved in it came to my attention that the wiring didn’t exactly look a 100% safe, as bare wires were hanging out of the kitchen wall and every time I turned the bathroom light on, the electric tripped. So my first job was to call a sparky. Do you know how difficult it is to contact a sparky on a Friday night? It took me the best part of two hours just to get somebody to answer the phone, and then they weren’t prepared to do an emergency call out. Read more…
DIY Electrics
So you fancy you hand at changing a fuse or rewiring your light switch? Well you would be surprised at how many of us do. From simply changing a plug to rewiring a house your average Joe at some point will give it a go, sometimes with dangerous consequences. Read more…
The Benefits of Recycling Electronic Waste
The fastest growing waste stream in the UK is Electrical waste with it generating an estimate of 1.8 million tonnes per year. Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations are targeting to reduce the large amount of waste that is destined for landfill sites therefore improving the rate of recycling and recovery.
There are many regulations that have been bought into effect that mean if you fail to follow you could face prosecution these cover importing, distributing, generating and collecting of electronic equipment and waste, if you are unsure you should contact your local council for details.
The Benefits of Recycling Lamps
There are estimated to be over 100 million street lamps in and around the UK, every year on average 3,100 tonnes of waste material is generated from these and until recently this has being destined for landfill sites. Although every single lamp has in it a small amount of mercury the amount of waste means that the hazardous mercury could possibly find its way into the land and in addition our water supply. Read more…
Electricians – Part P or NICEIC – what do they mean?
When you’re in need of an electrician it helps to know what qualification you need your “sparky” to have and what they actually mean. Read more…
North Wales Fire Crews raise awareness to local businesses
Recent reminders on electrical safety checks have become urgently apparent concerning qualified electricians to be employed in all manners of installations both domestic and industrial in the uk. Fire crews were alerted from Colwyn Bay, neighbouring Conway and LLandudno to a factory based in Mochdre N.Wales in the early hours on aug 14th 2009 to put out and control a severe fire which may have been caused by an electrical fault. The North Wales Fire and Rescue Service believe that faults in electrical appliances at the named factory were to cause extensive damage and loss to the factory. Read more…