Straight answers on home electrics, safety and charging, from the electrician doing the work across Birmingham week in, week out.
If you flick a light switch off in your Birmingham home and the bulb still glows faintly, flickers, or the breaker trips in the consumer unit, you're not imagining it and you're not alone.
If your consumer unit still has the old fuse wire type switches, or an electrician has flagged it on an EICR, you're probably wondering what a replacement will actually cost.
If you let out a property in Birmingham, a valid Electrical Installation Condition Report (EICR) is a legal requirement, not an optional extra.
If your home still runs on an old fuse box with rewireable fuses or a plastic board with no RCD protection, an upgrade is one of the most worthwhile electrical jobs you can have done.
An RCD that trips once in a blue moon is doing its job.
A full rewire is one of the biggest electrical jobs a home will ever need, and the price varies more than most people expect.
If your consumer unit still has rewirable fuses, your sockets are scorched round the edges, or a survey has flagged old wiring, you are probably weighing up a full rewire.
A full rewire is one of the biggest electrical jobs you can have done to a house, and prices vary widely depending on size, access and finish.
There are few things more annoying than the lights cutting out and finding the switch on the fuse box has flicked down again.
Much of Birmingham's housing stock is Victorian, Edwardian or interwar, and plenty of it is still running on wiring installed decades ago.
If your home still has an old fuse box with rewirable fuses, replacing it with a modern consumer unit is one of the most worthwhile safety upgrades you can make.