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Every photo and video here was taken by our electricians on emergency jobs. They show what is really behind a burning smell, a board that will not stop tripping, or a power cut that is not the grid.

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On the job

Videos from callouts

Videos play silently when you scroll to them and pause when you move on, so they never slow the page down.

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Wiring a new consumer unit by torchlight. When a board has failed at night, we work by head torch until the house is safe and back on.
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A cable that has cooked at the breaker terminal. A loose connection like this is what a burning smell from the fuse board usually is.
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Filling an underground cable joint with resin after repairing a damaged cable to an outbuilding. Sealed properly, it will not let water back in.
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Damaged cables found under floorboards while tracing a trip that kept coming back.
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Tracing a lighting fault through a loft at night. Most of a house’s cable runs are hidden, so finding the fault is most of the job.

What we find

The faults behind the emergencies

Heat damage at an old fuse board
Heat damage at an old fuse boardScorching and melted insulation around the meter tails on an old fuse board. A hot smell at the board is always an emergency.
Scorched socket terminal
Scorched socket terminalThe back of a double socket after a burning smell. The live terminal had worked loose, arced and overheated.
Burnt cable inside a wall
Burnt cable inside a wallA burnt cable found after opening up the wall behind a fitting. Faults like this are invisible until something smells or trips.
Corroded wiring behind a socket
Corroded wiring behind a socketGreen corrosion on the copper conductors behind an old socket, caused by damp and age. It showed up as tripping.
Communal meter cupboard
Communal meter cupboardA communal meter cupboard serving a block of flats. Knowing whose side of the meter a fault is on saves landlords and tenants time.
Main earthing terminal
Main earthing terminalThe main earthing terminal, tagged “Safety electrical connection, do not remove”. We check the earth before anything is switched back on.
Excavating a damaged underground cable
Excavating a damaged underground cableDigging out a damaged underground supply cable before jointing it. Outbuilding and garden supplies often fail this way.
Underground cable joint
Underground cable jointAn underground cable joint in place in the trench, ready to be tested and backfilled.
Loft fault finding
Loft fault findingWorking through a loft by torchlight to find where a lighting circuit had failed.

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