Your Circuits have tripped out? RCD’s (Residual Current Devices), are Electrical Safety Switches that stop / remove the electrical power supply to an electrical circuit, when...
Your Circuits have tripped out? RCD’s (Residual Current Devices), are Electrical Safety Switches that stop / remove the electrical power supply to an electrical circuit, when...
Finding your RCD The RCD shown will be an RCD in a Domestic Consumer unit, and it will also have beside it around 10 Miniature Circuit Breakers (MCB’s)
Finding your RCD The RCD shown will be an RCD in a Domestic Consumer unit, and it will also have beside it around 10 Miniature Circuit Breakers (MCB’s)
All the switches on my fuse board are all up but I don't have any electricity still ! Now What Do I Do? At first glance when you look at...
The power in your home has gone down! Before calling out an emergency electrician, check with your neighbours or others in your street - you may find that their power has gone down too. This is because electricity is supplied...
In a number of cases, if you have a credit meter, you will see numbers in the digital display to say how much money is apparently in the credit meter. However in smaller writing it will say whether it is...
I have a Burning Smell & Smoke from a Socket or a Switch If you smell burning, or see smoke, & if this is near your power circuits, or switches. Turn the electricity off either...
What to do if I hear crackling coming from my power socket I can hear crackling coming from my power socket, and the sound is getting worse. Check this short video out...
Have you ever noticed that the light in your living room has started crackling or dimmer switch is crackling when you turn it up? Or maybe your lights are flickering when turned on. This crackling noise could be caused by an electrical...
So what happens should something go wrong, and suddenly your electrical system shuts down? This can be frustrating, inconvenient and least of all a little bit frightening. In a lot of situations we don’t have warning and the...
What fuse do I use? A fuse is a protective device. The fuse is designed to protect your equipment/appliance and also you in the case of an overload due to mechanical or electrical failure. Be...
No electricity to boiler Should you find yourself in the unfortunate position that your boiler is not working, and there is no electricity going to it. Check to see if all the switches associated with the boiler and the heating system...
Earth Fault Loop Impedance A little known piece of information for home and property owners is something called Earth Loop impedance. When an electrician visits your home, for any electrical work which includes extending...
Our timer on our central heating went and my husband was miles away at work,it was early evening when I phoned karen, but straight away she told me not to worry,to send a photo of the timer and she'd sort it out,and she did, an electrician came out with a new timer fitted it and was gone, brilliant service from start to finish, will definitely use them again and would highly recommend them
Just to say a big thank you for the work that your electrician carried out at my mothers house. He was very professional and a clean worker and the finished job was a complete success. It is very comforting to know that when a tradesperson attends the property of a elderly customer that they feel safe and happy. Once again, Thanks Keith
The guys did a great job yesterday – and were very accommodating too (putting things back in cupboards that they had to remove.) I gave them regular coffee / tea (and my wife made them a couple of Apple buns too) – and last night I gave them each a bottle of VERY good wine as a small thank you. GW - Hildenborough
I had an emergency situation arising from a constantly tripping appliance. A call to Bright Sparks, who have helped me before, led me to their website’s ‘Knowledge Centre’ and although I’ve used similar help sites before this was excellent – clear, well laid out, and logically organised – and as someone with zero electrical knowledge I managed to find the fault myself! I followed up the situation on the phone and got more advice. Really impressed by the Bright Sparks service and will continue to use them and their Knowledge Centre again in the future.
You just saved us the biggest headache ever; after months of electrical problems ( now resolved), we had a ‘no power situation’. After checking circuit boards, switches etc we were at a complete loss. Read your piece above (after Googling ‘circuit board switches up, but no power‘) about RCD switch and resetting (didn’t know what an RCD was), and after 8 hours sleep dreaming of circuit boards and 2 minutes of contemplation, and re-reading your advice,I totally nailed it. Brilliant tutorial, many thanks. Susanne (I am neither young nor savvy with anything technical)
