We can install your electrical appliances.

Whether it’s an extractor, hob, cooker or range, dual fuel, integrated or freestanding we can remove and dispose of your old appliance and inst electric hob all your new one. We can alter gas and electrical supplies and even make adjustments to your kitchen cabinets if necessary.

We can vent your extractor to the outside using our professional diamond hole cutters ensuring a neat finish to your outside walls – No need to make good!

All gas work is carried out by a GasSafe operative and electrics by an NICEIC approved installer. We certificate all gas & electrical work.

Installation prices start from £75.00 inc VAT

Gas hobs, cookers & ranges

We can install your gas appliances.

Whether it’s a hob, cooker or range, dual fuel, integrated or freestanding we can remove and dispose of your old appliance and install your new one. We can alter gas and electrical supplies and even make adjustments to your kitchen cabinets if necessary.

All gas work is carried out by a GasSafe operative and electrics by an NICEIC approved installer. We certificate all gas & electrical work.

Installation prices start from £85.00 inc VAT

What is TrustMark?

Are you worried about picking a company at random out of the phone book or the internet when you need work done on your home?

Through TrustMark, the Government, the building industry and consumer groups are working together to stamp out rogue traders. They help to find reputable firms to carry out repairs, maintenance or improvement work on your home, rather than simply hope for the best.

TrustMark include representatives from leading trade organisations and independent certification organisations, as well as trusted consumer organisations like Trading Standards and Which?

Figures from the Office of Fair Trading show the need for TrustMark. Last year there were more complaints about poor home improvement work than second hand car dealers! This means 111,000 people have their own building horror story to tell.

inspect have been granted TrustMark status!

• TrustMark have checked our technical skills, trading record and financial position.
• We have signed up to a code of practice that includes insurance, good health and safety practices and customer care.
• TrustMark will continue to monitor our quality of work, trading practices and customer satisfaction.
• We will tell you about any building regulations you must meet, and will provide you with the relevant certificates you need.
• In the unlikely event of a disagreement there is a clear and user friendly complaints procedure to help sort out the problem.

At inspect we are keen to show potential customers that we are different from the run of the mill tradesmen; this is why we belong to so many trade organisations.

What is an RCD?

An RCD is a safety device that is fitted into a fuse board, often referred to as a ‘trip switch’ by householders.

You may recognise an RCD as an adapter that you use when plugging in outdoor electrical equipment. It is the same device that is fitted into a fuse board but as it is fitted upfront it protects the whole circuit and all appliances connected into that circuit.

Two types of RCD in a fuse board

An RCD’s purpose is to disconnect a circuit from the electrical supply when it detects an earth fault. An electric shock is an earth fault.

The way the RCD operates is as follows (the technical bit!)

The phase and neutral cables from the supply to the load are passed through a magnetic ring called a toroid. On the toroid is wound a detector winding which is taken to a tripping mechanism. It is the make-up of this tripping mechanism which determines whether the RCD is electromechanical or electronic.

Whilst the current flowing down the phase conductor is balanced by that in the neutral the RCD takes no action but if part of the current flows down to earth through some metalwork or through a person's body an unbalance occurs between phase and neutral.

This causes a magnetic field in the toroid which is picked up by the detector winding, fed to the tripping mechanism and the RCD opens. It is this speed of opening, usually between 30 and 50 milliseconds, which gives the protection.

The operation of the electromechanical tripping mechanism. The mechanism consists of a permanent magnet which holds a tripping arm closed thus holding the RCD in the closed position.A spring attempts to pull the arm away from the magnet.

The Electrical Mechanical Device is called the RCCB, Residual Current Circuit Breaker.
A winding on the magnet is connected to the detector winding on the toroid and demagnetises the permanent magnet in the event of a signal on the detector winding due to a fault to earth.The arm is pulled away by the spring and the RCD trips.

In the case of the electronic RCD the signal from the toroid is fed into an electronic circuit which accepts the signal, amplifies it and instructs a relay to open the RCD.

In order to operate the electronic circuit a mains feed is required into the circuit to feed the amplifier etc and it is a requirement of the British Standard for electronic RCDs that if the supply to the electronic circuit fails and prevents its operation in the event of an earth fault the RCD must open. This is particularly important in the case of a loss of neutral which could cause the RCD not to work even though the phase supply is still connected to the load.
This problem does not arise in the case of the electromechanical RCCB in which the tripping is powered by the signal induced into the detector winding on the toroid.
A test circiut is connected from neutral to phase across the toroid and when the test button is pressed creates an unbalance of about 2.5 times the normal tripping current across the RCD which trips it. The use of the test button which should be operated at least quarterly verifies the operation of the RCD.

What is a system boiler?

An example of a central heating and hot water system layout using a system boiler with an open-vented hot water cylinder

An example of a central heating and hot water system layout using a system boiler with a pressurised unvented hot water cylinder

Unlike a combi, both a system boiler and a regular (conventional) boiler work on the principle of stored hot water - but a system boiler differs from a regular boiler in some important respects.

Firstly, many of the major individual components of the heating and hot water system are built in, which means that installation is quicker, neater, easier and more efficient.

Secondly, the hot water is pumped from the boiler through the system to the radiators and hot water cylinder, resulting in a fast response and more economical running costs. The system boiler removes the need for a feed and expansion cistern.