Portable Appliance Testing, PAT testing as it is normally called ensures that the appliances you use everyday are electrically sound. In some countries it is a legal requirement to PAT test appliances. In Ireland it is a requirement to ensure that all electrical appliances in the work place are in a safe condition for the […]
If you get a peculiar smell from a switch or socket, please stop using it. Call an electrician to investigate it. I have regularly been called to houses where a switch has burnt out. On investigation the customer had noticed a peculiar smell in the previous days. If a switch is warm to touch it is a problem. […]
The pull cord switch was badly burnt. Luckily the shower stopped working before a fire was started. The customers were lucky. They had got a funny fishy smell before the shower stopped working. If in doubt please switch off appliances and get them checked out.
Came across this on Monday evening. Luckily the MCB tripped and prevented a fire. lighting cable was used to supply the hob in this instance. The connections were extremely badly terminated and the phase (live) conductor fell away as soon as I touched it.
An Irish rock band have been praised for saving over a dozen people from a raging house fire in the US – including an eight-month-old baby and three other children aged under five. Source: Heroic Irish rock band save children from devastating US house fire – Independent.ie