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	<title>EH1 Electrical Services Edinburgh&#039;s Electrician</title>
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	<description>The Complete Electrical Services Company Serving Edinburgh - 0131 510-1977</description>
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		<title>EH1 Electrical Services</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 08:07:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 ...]]></description>
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		<title>Free Home Safety Check</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 08:02:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lothian &#38; 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 and fit, free smoke detectors, complete with ten year batteries, if you need them.
The service is both free and confidential and available to everyone. To arrange a visit, or for any information on Fire Safety, phone free on 0800 169 0320.
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		<title>Fire Safety</title>
		<link>http://www.eh1electrical.co.uk/fire-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:56:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fire safety
Lothian &#38; 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 and fit, free smoke detectors, complete with ten year batteries, if you need them.
The service is both free and confidential and available to everyone. To arrange a visit, or for any information on Fire Safety, phone free on 0800 169 0320.
Most of us take electricity for granted. We use it every day and forget that it can be dangerous if we do not treat it with respect. Of reported fires, over 19% are caused ...]]></description>
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		<title>Extensions &amp; Leads</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:48:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Extensions &#38; 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 are fitted to power tools, they can become tangled and one of the conductors may eventually fail, which could cause danger
a greater capacity for overloading circuits, which increases the risk of fire

An extension lead should not be used whenever it is possible to reach a wall socket with the equipment cable. However, the equipment cable should never be stretched taut as this may cause a tripping hazard.
When the use of an extension cable is unavoidable:

only ...]]></description>
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		<title>Garden Safety</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 used for plugging in portable electrical equipment that is to be used outdoors, should have RCD protection.
Check that you are protected by an RCD with a maximum rated residual operating current of 30 milliamperes (mA). If your socket-outlet is not protected by an RCD, purchase a good quality plug-in RCD adaptor from a reputable dealer, as a temporary measure. The safest option is to get a registered installer to install permanent RCD protection to all ...]]></description>
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		<title>Bathroom Safety</title>
		<link>http://www.eh1electrical.co.uk/bathroom-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:38:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s resistance. There are special requirements for electrical installations in bathrooms.
Sockets

Sockets are not allowed in bathrooms or shower rooms (apart from shaver-supply units), unless they can be fitted at least three metres from the bath or shower.
Shaver-supply units must be a safe distance from the bath or shower to avoid splashes.

Lights

Enclosed ceiling lights are preferable to pendant (ones that hang down) light fittings. All light fittings, that are not enclosed, should be out of reach of someone using, or still wet from using, the bath or shower.
A ceiling-mounted pull-cord switch with the cord made of ...]]></description>
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		<title>Kitchen Safety</title>
		<link>http://www.eh1electrical.co.uk/kitchen-safety/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Kitchen Safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kitchen safety
We all know that water and electricity make a lethal combination. So it&#8217;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 may be difficult. Ideally, these appliances should be controlled by a switched fuse-connection unit mounted above the worktop where you can reach it easily.
If a socket in the kitchen, or anywhere else in the house is likely to be used to supply portable equipment outdoors, it should have an RCD fitted. Under the national safety standard, all sockets in new electric installations and any new sockets added to an existing installation must have RCD protection.
Take ...]]></description>
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		<title>Electrical Safety Laws in Scotland</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 May 2010 06:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
 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 be approved by a registered installer (known formally as an ‘approved certifier’) or be checked by the local authority.
What electrical work is covered by the rules?
Any electrical work carried out under a building warrant. It is the responsibility of the person who orders the work (normally the person who owns the building), to find out if they need a building warrant. Your local authority will be able to give you advice about whether you need ...]]></description>
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		<title>Landlords Resources</title>
		<link>http://www.eh1electrical.co.uk/landlords/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 08:34:42 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Electrical Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 3,4772 injuries.
Most accidents in the home relate to faults or misuse of domestic appliances and the use of the fixed electrical installation. That said, it is sad to report that even in this day and age several thousand fires2, hundreds of injuries2 and 142 deaths are still caused by objects being placed too near to heat sources (such as electric heaters or lamps).
The three major dangers to persons from electrical accidents in the home are ...]]></description>
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		<title>The NICEIC Jargon Buster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 10:27:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 &#8211; British Standard
British Standard BS 7671 – also known as the IEE (Institute of Electrical Engineering) wiring regulations. 
Certificate
Any electrician installing a new electrical installation (including a single circuit), altering, extending or adapting an existing circuit should issue the homeowner with electrical installation certificate or minor electrical installation works certificate to confirm the work complies with the requirements of BS 7671.
Circuit
An assembly of electrical equipment (socket outlets, lighting points and switches) supplied from the same origin and protected against over current by the same protective device(s).
Circuit-breaker or RCD
A device capable of making, carrying and ...]]></description>
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