Came across this today in an apartment in Dun Laoghaire.

Did an installation test in Rathfarnham this morning and then on to Dalkey to install a wall mounted heater in a bathroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFT4z1PSxpc If you have an electric shower it is vitally important that you have a RCD or RCBO (safety switch) in the circuit. There is usually one protecting sockets and one protecting the shower. If you have an electric shower, turn on the power button on the shower and then press the test switch on […]

While working in a house fixing lights, I discovered there was no RCBO (essential safety switch) fitted to the shower circuit. When I opened up the fuse board to fit an RCBO on the shower circuit I discovered the main fuse had been overheating and the insulation on the cable had started to melt (see […]

Got a call out to day to a home in Shankill. The immersion wasn’t working due to burnt out connections. Luckily the immersion didn’t go on fire as the hotpress was full of clothes.

Replacing 50 watt down lighters with 7.5 Watt LED down lighters in Shankill this morning. Wiring in new sockets in Kitchen in Dalkey this afternoon.  

Battery chargers besides using electricity unnecessarily can be a fire hazard also. They should be unplugged when not in use.

IN THE past year rechargeable batteries containing the element lithium have been in the headlines for all the wrong reasons. Investigators in Japan are investigating why a lithium-ion battery overheated on a Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Narita airport. Last year Boeing grounded its entire fleet of the next-generation plane after the lithium batteries on two […]

Moving central heating controls and installing new electronic time switch on water heater in Sandycove today.