FAQs

  • Fuses blowing regularly
  • Circuit tripping
  • Small sparks when a plug is switched on
  • Crackling, buzzing, humming or sizzling sounds
  • Lights dimming or flickering
  • A burning smell from switches or outlets
  • Warm or discoloured wall plates

Contractors registered by NICEIC are assessed on a regular basis to ensure that they are competent and capable of meeting the relevant technical and safety standards, codes of practice and rules of the Schemes they are registered to.

Portable Appliance Testing ensures that the equipment is safe to use and complies with the H & S requirement on electrical appliances. This is a statutory requirement for Businesses and Schools.

An Electrical Inspection is required before tenants move in and at least every five years thereafter or on change of tenancy, whichever occurs first.

The Smoke and Carbon Monoxide Alarm (England) Regulations 2015 came into force on the 1st of October 2015. These regulations require a smoke alarm to be installed on every storey of the premises on which there is a room used wholly or partly as living accommodation. A carbon monoxide alarm must be installed in any room which is used wholly or partly as living accommodation and contains a solid fuel burning appliance.

Private sector landlords are required from 1 October 2015 to have at least one smoke alarm installed on every storey of their properties and a carbon monoxide alarm in any room containing a solid fuel burning appliance (eg a coal fire, wood burning stove). After that, the landlord must make sure the alarms are in working order at the start of each new tenancy.

The requirements will be enforced by local authorities who can impose a fine of up to £5,000 where a landlord fails to comply with a remedial notice.

Read the Government guidance on smoke and carbon monoxide alarms here.

K&P Electrical Contractors are highly skilled trade electricians and carry out industrial, commercial and domestic installations, electrical inspection and testing, fire and smoke alarm installation, electric vehicle charge point installations and PAT testing. We undertake large contracted work as well as small, independent or domestic jobs.

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