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EH1 Electrical Services

EH1 Electrical are a conscientious residential and commercial electrical installation and repair company with over 50 years combined experience as time served professionals. We have highly skilled electricians with expertise and experience in all aspects of electrical contracting including installation, maintenance and repair. We offer free quotations and our workmanship is guaranteed. Our electricians always aim to be clean and courteous to our clients. As a professional electrical company, we are ready and able to complete any domestic and commercial electrical service with relative ease.  From the simplest of electrical repairs to a full house rewire, no job is either too big or too small. We are just as happy working for homeowners, landlords, tenants, commercial premises, offices, warehouses, hotels, restaurants and guest houses. Our services include but are not limited to: Periodic inspections PAT testing Planned maintenance Telephone Cabling Installation and Repair of Carbon Monoxide, Fire, Smoke and Intruder Alarms All types of ... … Continue Reading.. »

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Free Home Safety Check

Free Home Safety Check

Lothian & Borders Fire and Rescue Service offer a free Home Safety Visits across in the Lothian and Borders area. During the Home Safety Visit, firefighters, who work in pairs, will advise you on Fire Safety matters such as the safe use of electrical appliances, smokers materials and candles as well as highlighting the potential hazards of cooking . The … Read entire article »

Fire Safety

Fire Safety

Fire safety Lothian & Borders Fire and Rescue Service offer a free Home Safety Visits across in the Lothian and Borders area. During the Home Safety Visit, firefighters, who work in pairs, will advise you on Fire Safety matters such as the safe use of electrical appliances, smokers materials and candles as well as highlighting the potential hazards of cooking . … Read entire article »

Extensions & Leads

Extensions & Leads

Extensions & leads Many portable electric items like lamps and radios are supplied with a relatively short length of cable. Ensuring your home has sufficient socket-outlets at convenient points will minimize the need for extension leads and adapters, but occasionally their use will be unavoidable. The use of extension leads can present the following dangers: tripping or falling cable damage due to wear, particularly … Read entire article »

Garden Safety

Garden Safety

Electrical Safety in your Garden This page is intended to help you to use electrical equipment safely in the garden and avoid electrical accidents. The risk of an electric shock causing serious injury or death, is greater outdoors than indoors, due to possible wet conditions and physical contact with the ground. Residual Current Devices (RCD) An RCD is a safety device that switches … Read entire article »

Bathroom Safety

Bathroom Safety

Bathroom safety Water carries electricity efficiently. When the two mix, the result can kill. Because of this, from an electrical safety point of view, the bathroom is possibly the most dangerous room in the home. The consequences of an electric shock are far more severe in a bathroom or shower room as wet skin reduces the body’s resistance. There are special … Read entire article »

Kitchen Safety

Kitchen Safety

Kitchen safety We all know that water and electricity make a lethal combination. So it’s important that fixed electrical equipment is installed correctly, and that you use appliances in your kitchen with care. To avoid water coming into contact with electricity, make sure that your sockets or switches are fitted at a safe distance (at least 30 centimetres horizontally) from the sink. If … Read entire article »

Electrical Safety Laws in Scotland

Electrical Safety Laws in Scotland

In May 2005, a new system was brought in to enforce the Building Regulations in Scotland. It aims to improve the standard of building work. The new system includes rules for electrical installations, which has been controlled by the Building Regulations for many years. Under the new system, any electrical work carried out under a building warrant (the legal … Read entire article »

Landlords Resources

Landlords Resources

At EH1 Electrical we have fully trained electricians who can ensure that any property you have is electrically safe. Although the UK has a relatively a good record of electrical safety, recorded figures for 2007 show that 191 people died from electrocution and/or fatal electric burns as a result of an accident in the home. The figures also revealed there … Read entire article »

The NICEIC Jargon Buster

The NICEIC Jargon Buster

Whether your whole house is being rewired or you’re just having some new sockets fitted, it helps to know the difference between a consumer unit and a circuit breaker. To help you understand what your electrician is talking about, NICEIC have put together a jargon buster to explain below some of the more common terms used. BS – British Standard British Standard … Read entire article »

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