HOW OLD IS YOUR HOME?

30, 40, 50 years old?

Could you name the one thing in your home which would have been used almost every day since it was built?

… it's one of the least likely things to ever get checked.

Yes, that's right - your electrics.

Your home couldn't operate without them.

Yet when was the last time you actually had then checked by a Qualified Electrician?

Most of the Bexley, Sidcup, and Bromley areas were built in the 1960s. Some houses on the borders of Eltham and Blackfen were built around 1947. This means that there are 1000s of homes with electrics that is over 50 years old.

It was a common practice back then to install lights with no earthing.

Installations were completed using rubber VIR cabling that is now past its life expectancy.

This cable is toxic and degraded so much so, that the insulation breaks when touched, exposing the live cables underneath.

Hi my name is mark, I am your local electrician, welcome to my blog.

Today I am going to talk about the electrics in your homes.

It still amazes me how many local homes have poor electrics and in some cases extremely dangerous electrics.

I recently went to a house that looked very nice and had lovely flooring, furniture and when you walk in it felt like a lovely home, well lived in for many years by various families probably.

Sounds strange doesn't it?

So what does it mean exactly?

Although some gardens in Bexley Bromley Sevenoaks Greenwich and Dartford rarely get used in winter what I mean is not to literally close your garden but the electrics and the appliances within the garden.

Allow me to explain…

Lawnmowers, strimmers, hedge trimmers, pressure washers, extension leads are all items that very often get left for the winter in sheds, under tarpaulins etc.

Standing at a recent seminar I noticed that although all qualified electricians are very different, from the works they complete, methods used and ways of achieving results, there is in fact 1 common theme.

We are all experts, all studied a long apprenticeship and have subsequently been living and breathing electrics for a long time. Yet most of our neighbours remain unaware of the dangers posed from electricity.

Why is that?