Looking for an Electrician in Pipewell?

Pipewell is a village in the civil parish of Rushton in North Northamptonshire. It sits 1 mile away from Corby and with only 63 inhabitants it is one of the smallest villages in Northamptonshire.

No matter how small a village, there is always a need for a local electrician. We are your local Electrician in Pipewell

Fusebox Upgrade in Pipewell

The fuse box is the brains of your electrical system. It has a multitude of responsibilities such as:

• Short circuit protection
• Surge Protection
• Electric Shock Prevention
• Overload Detection
• Arc Fault Detection
• Dividing the Mains supply into smaller circuits
• Distributing Electricity safely around your home

Modern consumer units (like a fuse box but with trip switches) are the latest in available safety technology. Old fuse boxes do not offer the safety advances that modern consumer units have and as such, may be hiding electrical faults within your home wiring system that could be potentially dangerous.

Can you put a new fuse board onto old wiring?

Often, yes. It depends.

As new technology is far more efficient at spotting electrical issues, when installing a new consumer unit onto old wiring, there could be hidden faults that the old fuse box would not detect. Now the new consumer unit is installed it could trip off, refuse to turn on or electrical faults could mean that circuits are not safe to reconnect.

In the case of old wiring, it is often best to get an electrical safety inspection carried out prior to the consumer unit being installed. A periodic electrical inspection (or electrical safety check) will test the old wiring system to see if there are existing faults that may prevent the safe installation of a new consumer unit.

If you would like more information on new consumer units or just some general electrical advice then get in touch with us, we are always happy to help.