Recommended Home Electricians Kit

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videojug.com/terms/terms. Hi there! I'm Chris from Aspect Maintenance Electrical Company in the centre of London.

Today we're just going to have a quick look at some of the tools that you should have around the house if you want to undertake any electrical work yourself. Let's just start off with the basic set of insulated pliers. Everything you should use should be insulated anyway when working with electric.

These are a CK brand which is a sort of middle range brand. So you'd want to have a set of those. You'd also want to have a Philips Head/Star Head screwdriver.

Again insulated to 1000 Volts, if you touch any electric boxes. A small flathead for safe fitting lights, double sockets, things like that. Also, a set of snips, CM brand CK, insulated as well.

A set of those. Martindale, this is a test. If you put this in any double socket, it'll tell you any issues that you have with the lights, if it's working okay or if it's not.

It's a pretty handy tool for an electrician or handyman to have. See the standing knife. Again, just for, obviously very sharp, just for cutting cables and things like that.

If you want to do any sort of work on telephone lines, you'll have to have one of these, again CK make, and it's just for working on the telephone lines, punching them down, breaking them off. Again, another tester, an electrical volt tester, touch anything loud with it and it'll beep red. It's just a good indication, as a secondary check before you work on anything in the household so there's no accidents with electric in that.

And then lastly, some insulation tape for other just taping up ends of cables, labelling cables, and just marking so when you obviously do your first fix and put your cables in, and come back, you know which cable is which and know where to connect it to so there's no confusion. And that's just some basic tools you should have in and around the house when doing some work on a domestic household. Thanks.