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With all social occasions destined to be in the garden for the next few months, here are a few tips on how to prepare your garden electrics. Now you may be sitting there thinking I haven’t got any garden electrics! I think you would be surprised by just how reasonable

Buying a new home is an exciting time. You’ve found your dream home and offer has been expected. Now you can start thinking about new furniture, paint colours, flowers for the front garden and more. Make sure you don’t forget to get the Electrical Inspection on your new home though.

What is it and how do you prepare? So you need to get an EICR conducted on your home or rental property. You probably have a few questions about what’s going to happen, how this will affect any occupiers of the property and what can be done to prepare. Fear

Don’t panic, I’m not about to give you advice on what style of light fitting will tie in with your décor; we’re electricians not interior designers after all! We electricians do have a unique perspective however, we see thousands of rooms inside hundreds of peoples homes each year. Combined with

Having a hot tub or jacuzzi in your garden is getting more and more popular. The price of hot tubs and jacuzzis has fallen meaning they have become much more accessible to anyone with enough garden space looking for some bubbly fun. Hot tubs aren’t specifically mentioned in BS7671 presently

Electrical faults can occur in homes or offices. The first indication you may have a problem might be the blowing of a fuse or tripping of an MCB or RCD. Quite often the fuse can be replaced, or the user can reset the MCB/RCD. If the fuse blows again or

A registered electrician will check the earthing and bonding on any installation he works on. This is because the safety of any new work you have done (however small) will depend on the earthing and bonding arrangements. Earthing Earthing is used to protect you from an electric shock. It does

Halloween is the creepiest and scariest time of the year. It’s all about haunted houses, scary movies, creepy pumpkins, frightening fancy dress and things that go bump in the night. But what if you don’t want things going bump, bang, exploding or breaking in the night? How to keep safe

In order to meet carbon emission targets, the government are stopping housing developers installing gas heating systems in all new build properties from 2025. There is also talk of phasing gas out from existing properties from 2030. In the past having electric heating has been seen as a poor choice

Being a Landlord is not getting any easier with all the new rules and regulations.  This blog isn’t designed to tell you what you should or shouldn’t be doing.  It’s aim is to give you a little bit of guidance from an NICEIC registered electrician on a few checks you