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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 … Read entire article »
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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 firefighters will also stress the importance of having a working smoke alarm and will supply … Read entire article »
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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 . The firefighters will also stress the importance of having a working smoke alarm and will … Read entire article »
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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 where leads are walked over, flexed at a single point or stored badly. When leads … Read entire article »
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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 off the electricity automatically when it detects an earth fault. Any socket-outlet that may be … Read entire article »
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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 requirements for electrical installations in bathrooms. Sockets Sockets are not allowed in bathrooms or shower rooms (apart … Read entire article »
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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 appliances such as fridges, dishwashers and washing machines are fitted under worktops, getting to sockets … Read entire article »
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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 permission you need from the local authority to start building work) will either have to … Read entire article »
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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 were 21,4242 accidental domestic fires of an electrical origin, which resulted in 492 deaths and … Read entire article »
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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 BS 7671 – also known as the IEE (Institute of Electrical Engineering) wiring regulations. Certificate Any … Read entire article »
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News from the electrical industry
- Energy Secretary Faces Charges This Week February 6, 2012 Tessa Clarke
- Energy Minister Fergus Ewing says Certain Energy Projects Are Canceled February 3, 2012 Justin Becks
- British Gas and Thames Water Team Up February 2, 2012 Beth Williams
- SSE Announces the Loss of Some 50,000 Customers February 1, 2012 Jenson Brayshaw
- British Gas Targeted by New Fuel Protest January 31, 2012 Emma Young
- E.ON Able to Strike Deal With Unions January 30, 2012 Jason Drew
- Government Loses Battle to Cut Solar Power Subsidies January 27, 2012 Samantha Donovan
- South West of England to be Home to First UK Marine Energy Park January 26, 2012 Justin Becks
- Scottish Wind Farms to Receive £7.6 Billion to Connect to UK Grid January 25, 2012 Tessa Clarke
- Co-operative Energy Urges Power Suppliers to Pay Exit Penalties January 24, 2012 Jenson Brayshaw
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