Play Safe With An Electrical Installation

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Play Safe With An Electrical Installation

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• Anyone carrying out electrical work needs to be
  suitably qualified. If you are considering
  having your home rewired, what should you demand
  from the person doing the work?
• If you are having an Electrical Installation
  South West London installed, you need to know
  that since 2005 all such work should meet the
  standards of the building regulations by law.
• According to part P of the regulations any work
  carried out should be installed in such a manner
  to protect households from fire and electrical
  shocks.

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• The building regulations in part P specify that
  all work in the home, garden and sheds are
  notifiable, but minor works are exempt from this
  stipulation.
• Because all home owners, including landlords have
  to prove that electrical work has been carried
  out according to building regulations, an
  electrician should be able to provide the home
  owner with a certificate or some such to make
  sure that nothing has to be altered after the
  installation.
• Did you know that faulty electrics cause more
  than 20,000 house fires every year? These days
  we have many more labour saving appliances than
  ever before and they put a strain on the
  electrical circuit.

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You should make sure that yours is up to date as
we found when we plugged in too many appliances.
It was the middle of the night and the dogs were
trying to get into our bedroom. I shooed them
away and the next morning it appeared that one of
the sockets had caught fire. Luckily for us
apart from a melted socket there was no other
damage done apart from a layer of fine soot
everywhere. We were lucky some 70 people are
killed in house fires every year. It goes
without saying that we had large parts renewed to
take account of fridges, freezers, heating units
and the television. Apparently it is not
difficult to get an electrical circuit to work.
However, it is much harder to get it to work
safely.
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Although old systems have been largely phased out
in older homes, you should still have your
electricity supply regularly checked to make sure
that all aspects are safe. Many people make the
mistake of overloading sockets because there are
not enough of them around the home. If you are
of these people, it really is worth your while
from a safety aspect to have additional power
points installed. Electrical Installation South
West London can do this for you. A simple
indication that something is not right is if the
sockets are crackling. Obviously if you smell
burning you would isolate the supply from the
fuse box. It is surprising though that many
people carry on regardless using unsafe circuits
until something devastating happens. If you
would like your Electrical Installation South
West London checked out please visit mrsparx.co.uk
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Mrsparx
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