Dangerous Electrics

Hi my name is mark, I am your local electrician, welcome to my blog.

 

Today I am going to talk about the electrics in your homes.

 

It still amazes me how many local homes have poor electrics and in some cases extremely dangerous electrics.

 

I recently went to a house that looked very nice and had lovely flooring, furniture and when you walk in it felt like a lovely home, well lived in for many years by various families probably.

 

The house was owned previously by someone who extended many times and the builders had completed the whole lot.

 

This was the problem in this case… They also completed the electrical works, as a consequence it resulted in one of the most dangerous installations I have ever seen.

 

No earthing despite metal switches, lights, sockets and pipework and even a fuse board with no earth.

 

I was called because the customer had smelt a burning smell in the shower. The shower had burnt out but electrics did not trip… a potentially dangerous position to be in.

 

When trying to turn of the electric the customer had to turn of the whole CCU to turn it off, knowing this wasn't right the customer called an electrician.

 

Upon investigation the consumer unit had been rigged to bypass an essential protective device and the shower circuit actually came off the main bulbar meaning it had no protection and could very easily catch fire.

 

In my experience houses that have had builders either living in or working on and completed whole projects without the use of a qualified electrician have shown dangerous things that people do, even worse, they use their skills to cover it up so you may never know until it's too late.

 

If your worried about the electrics in your home consult a qualified electrician to check things out.

It can take just 2 hours and cost as little as £50.00.