What is an Emergency Call Out? An emergency electrical call out is where you need an electrician to attend immediately. This could be outside of normal working hours, during the weekends or bank holidays or into the evenings.
There are times when you need an ELECTRICIAN IN BRISTOL that can handle an emergency callout and at Fairway Electrical, we are able to find electrical faults quickly and diagnose dangerous situations efficiently.
What would require an Emergency Call Out?
There are many electrical situations that would classify as an emergency call out. Generally speaking, these are situations where there is serious danger present, great inconvenience, risk to property or health.
Such situations could be:
- No lights working
- No sockets working
- Total power loss
- Burning Smells
- Tripping Switches
- Flickering Lights
- Fuses Blowing
- Sockets Crackling
What causes Emergency Call Out situations?
Our wiring systems are often forgotten heroes. They operate silently day after day without a peep, are rarely maintained and are left for decades until something goes wrong. When things go wrong it can be worrying but often the issues are easy to trace and repair.
Typical problems that would cause an emergency call out situation would be:
- Faulty Appliances
- Wiring Damage
- Water Ingress
- Lack of Maintenance
- Component failure
Faulty Appliances
Where appliances go wrong, they can wreak absolute havoc on the electrical system causing switches to trip and fuse to blow. Where there are tripping switches in the consumer unit, the first step is often to disconnect all electrical appliances and equipment from the plug sockets before attempting to turn switches back on.
Wiring Damage
DIY, Rodents, Careless Loft Storage, Poor Installation and Building Movement can all contribute to create electrical emergency situations. As your local ELECTRICIAN IN BRISTOL, we have seen it all. Wiring damage is a common cause of electrical problems so before you call, try and remember the last time you put a nail in the wall, chucked something into the loft or heard any critters moving around.
Water Ingress
Water and electricity absolutely do not mix and when they do, there can be electrical dangers and problems that develop. Try and remember if it was raining the last time the switch tripped, think if there are any outdoor electrical sockets or pond pumps that could be disconnected and check the ancient security floodlight to see it there is water in there.
Water can get in anywhere and can result in damaged wiring and electrical issues.
Lack of Maintenance
Did you know that an electrical system in a domestic home should be periodically inspected and tested by a professional electrician?
That’s right, every ten years as a minimum, your wiring, sockets, switches, fuse board (or consumer unit) should be expertly tested by an electrician to ensure that there are no electrical dangers or hidden faults.
Component Failure
Consumer unit and fuse box components have a lifespan and eventually they will fail. Where component failure has occurred parts can be difficult to source where the consumer unit is an older model.
Consumer unit manufacturers periodically go out of business, change the designs, and are bought out by other manufacturers. When this happens, it can be difficult to source new parts for the existing equipment.
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