How To Understand Warning Labels

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Hi there! I'm Chris from Aspect Maintenance, an electric company based in the centre in London. We're just going to have a look through some basic labels that you'd see within a household and just have a bit of a talk about them and become quite familiar with them. This is the basic circuit chart that every distribution board would have.

Labelled the circuits and some of the readings that the electricians had after he's tested it. Every household should have one of these after 2008. So, have a look out for it and see if there's one there.

This is the label just to say that it's got an RCD in it, and just basically try to test it. It's a simple press of the button. If you didn't have this there, it could confuse people and they wouldn't be quite familiar with how to.

Over here we have probably one of the most important, which is the mixed wiring. This basically is sort of an indication of anybody going to work on any installation that there's old style colors within the installation as well as new style colors, i.e.

, brown/blue, and then obviously the red/black which is the older style. This is to let you know that there could be little loose hidden dangers in there. This one here is just to let you know about the periodic inspection that should take place every five years or change of occupancy within a house.

Here we have the date of the last inspection. So if you look at your date of last inspection, if it's basically over five years then it's probably time for an inspection of your installation, just like servicing your car just to make sure everything is okay. And lastly, we have the DNG volt sticker that should be on every installation besides distribution, just to let you know that there's obviously two 40 volts behind the distribution or any component in the house that's not clearly marked with this already.

And that's just a brief outlay of the warning stickers that you'll have within a household.