Electrical developments Ltd. was established in the year 2000 as an high quality electrical contractors since then we have been installing all different types of electrical,signal and data systems from house and office rewires to electric gates, fire alarms.
Electricity has become law - Stopping the rouge trader's
We all take electricity for granted - but in the wrong hands its could be a killer. According to the government, every year faulty electric's in the home kill's ten people and injures 750 more. In 2003 alone, electrical faults led to 2,336 house fires that caused yet more death and injury.
So on January 1st 2005 new laws to crack down on cowboys and shoddy workmanship came into force. New electrical safety requirements were added to Buildings Regulations, the rules enforceable by local authorities to ensure the health and safety of people of people in and around buildings.
The requirements, known as Part P of the Building Regulations, say that anyone carrying out fixed electrcal instrallations in England and Wales must comply with the national safety standard for them (BS 7671). A fixed installation is the term for wiring and appliances that are fixed to a building: the sockets, switches, consumer units / fuse boxes, and ceiling fittings etc. Under the new regulations, electrical work must be "suitably designed, installed, inspected and tested so as to provide reasonable protection against them being the source of a fire or a cause of injury to persons". This applies to almost all-elecrical installations in the home and garden: from adding teh elctric's to a newly built house or extension, through to garden lighting and pond pumps, even to DIY works. For more inforamtion visit the www.odpm.gov.uk the department for communities and local government or Click here for the direct link.
