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Surveillance and CCTV in london

Security systems installed on your home or commercial business will make family and employees feel safer and more secure from theft, crime and damages. Surveillance systems can be designed for individual purposes, either commercial or domestic including hotels, embassies, offices, commercial property, restaurants, pubs and bars.
The advantages of having a surveillance system are:
Theft - Installing surveillance cameras not only can decrease theft from outsiders, but can reduce internal theft.

Give yourself a PAT on the back.

Trade Skills 4U leads the way in course design to offer 3 day PAT testing courses

Prevent the risk of a fire in your home

Sometimes electrical safety is taken for granted. Fires can be easily caused through electrical faults and carelessness in the home.
Last year there were 31,000 accidental dwelling fires within the UK, 187 of these were fatal. 4,277 were non-fatal fire casualties.
Ensure that you have a smoke alarm fitted and test it regularly.

Stay safe around gas

Since 2005, the building regulations have changed regarding the installation of gas appliances to conserve energy and reduce CO2 emissions.
Gas appliances can only be fitted by a gas safety registered professional. All PukkaJob plumbers and electricians who service the central London area and surrounding boroughs are accredited and carry all the relevant qualifications to give our customers peace of mind.

Electrician’s tips for saving electricity in your home

Saving electricity is something you should be doing all year round. In the Winter savings can be made through your electric heating, whereas Summer months can see savings with the lighting of your home.

In this blog for My Local Electrician, we’re going to outline a couple quick tips directly from our Electricians for saving electricity within your home.

Turn off the lights

PAT Testing in your London office or home

Portable appliance testing (PAT) is the examination and testing of electrical appliances and electrical apparatus to certify they are safe to use.
Most electrical safety faults can be obvious but some types of problems can only be detected by testing. Some forms of electrical safety failing can't be detected by testing alone therefore an examination by eye is essential.

What to look out for when commissioning a london based electrician

How do you know that your electrician is not only reliable, but also trust worthy and safe?
Well, first of all, electrical work, whether it is domestic or commercial must comply with specific guidelines.
There are a lot of qualifications relevant to becoming an electrician such as electrical apprenticeships, City and Guilds, NVQ, EAL, Domestic Installer and AM2.
The independent electrical contracting body is NIC EIC. You should ask your electrician if he or she is NIC EIC accredited {www.niceic.com}.

Earth Leakage Circuit Breaker Could Have Saved Lives

The first reflections upon the tragic deaths of children tend to center around what happened and who or what was at fault. It becomes a blame game. For Sagar and Mohammed Sayyed, two adolescent children killed in an electrocution accident in Powai, India, the finger pointing does nothing. According to The Times of India’s report, police and state officials investigating this affair noted that the building’s wiring had never been replaced and did not have an earth leakage circuit breaker, which would have saved the children’s lives.

Will you be the second on line electrician of the year award winner?

Entries are now open for the 2012 On line electrician of the year awards.

Do you make use of the internet to market your business? If not, you are missing out on a huge chunk of opportunity to tell other people about yourself and your business.

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn are alive with people promoting their businesses – and those seeking quality tradespeople now turn to the internet to help them with their search.

Philpott Services Electrical Contracting Torbay, Devon, Torquay, Paignton

Well, I can already hear you saying it… A blog for an electrical contractor? Why? What have they got to talk about?
Well I don’t intend to bore you with test drives of plug sockets so please read on a little longer.

Today I am going to give you an outline of how Philpott Services runs day to day and what drives us to keep on hunting for new work while we continue making our very best efforts to look after our loyal customers.

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