These devices are the most important electrical safety device you can have. If you have an electrical shower you should definitely have one. This year I have come across three instances in Monkstown, Dun Laoghaire and Cabinteely where people with electric showers did not have one of these devices. I know of two instances […]
When an appliance is giving you trouble, seems to be running too long, or is just is older than dirt, it is time to update to a more energy efficient model of the vast appliance lines. When you enter an appliance store, you may notice that many of the appliances have a yellow tag attached […]
A MAN avoided jail after he lost an arm in an attempt to steal copper wire from an electricity substation. Edmond Tyrell (28) knocked out the power to the surrounding area and suffered severe electrical burns during the incident. Tyrell, of Ard Chualann, Bray, Co Wicklow, pleaded guilty at Dublin Circuit Criminal Court to […]
Got a call from an elderly woman in Ballsbridge to check out her extractor fan in the kitchen. The existing extractor was 40 years old and had given up the ghost. Will have to replace the extractor for her. Woman is 85 years old and a lovely woman. She is still driving her car and […]
Had to fit a new Devi Reg controller in a house in Stillorgan today. These control the underfloor heating and the one in the house had gone faulty. Then down to Dalkey to check up on a new kitchen fit, I had done the first fix on Thursday. Luckily I called as there were some […]
Got an unusual one today in Dun Laoghaire. A customers sockets kept tripping out in an apartment that was not in use. After isolating the faulty circuit, I discovered that a slug had got into one of the sockets causing the socket circuits to trip out. Then got an emergency call out from a builder […]