Category Archives: Electrical and Energy Saving

Blog articles on electrical home problems, dealing with an electrician, electrical engineering and cutting your electric bills.

8 Helpful Home Hacks

Home hacks are an extremely useful way to save both time and money around your home. That’s why we have scoured the internet in order to find what we think are the most effective and time efficient home hacks that anyone can use. Many are obvious, small changes that can be implemented in your day […]

6 Efficient Ways to Reduce Your Energy Bills

There are a few obvious ways to reduce energy consumption in your home, from changing your energy supplier to using less gas and electricity as a household. As effective as they are, we thought we would include some of the lesser known tips and tricks you may not have tried to ensure your energy bills […]

Power Paper: The Paper Thin Energy Storage System

Electrically powered paper may be the new slim and efficient form of new technology. Swedish scientists have recently discovered how to store electricity in a paper-like material. One sheet of ‘paper’ measuring 15 centimeters in diameter and under 0.5 millimeters in thickness can store one farad of electrical capacitance. Just one farad equates to many […]

What is PAT testing?

PAT TESTING: What is PAT testing? PAT Testing- stands for ‘Portable Appliance Testing’ and is the process of testing portable electrical appliances.  This is undertaken to ensure that the appliances are working at optimum efficiency and that they are safe to use. When PAT testing, the engineer will assess  whether the appliance is being used in line with their manufacturers […]