Disastrous Christmas: Know the risks of defective electrical installations and how they affect your property

For the vast majority of people, the Christmas season represents an ideal time to decorate your home and share quality time with your family. Decorate the Christmas tree, decorate the garden, place the socks by the fireplace … There are many traditions that families carry out during this time of year.

But sometimes not everything goes as planned, our home can go from being our Christmas palace to a real death trap. All this because of dishonest sellers, contractors who do not do the job well, and sometimes, because of our negligence.

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Recently we learned about the sad case of Melanie Herbert (name changed at the request of the family) a 27-year-old woman who died, electrocuted by connecting the Christmas lights in her home. All this was caused by a failure in the electrical installation that was never mentioned by the man who sold them the house.

The Christmas of the Herbert family was not exactly as they expected it, and in spite of having recently acquired what they considered “the house of their dreams”, they would end up living a true nightmare when their 27-year-old daughter died due to a small failure in the electrical wiring of the house. “It had been less than two weeks since we bought the house, the seller never mentioned anything related to that failure in the electrical system. My daughter just wanted to decorate our house, I was very excited because it would be our Christmas in that new home … Now instead of opening presents, we are burying our daughter, ”said Melanie’s father.

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The fateful night of that December 18 will be sadly marked in the memory of Melanie’s family. Subsequent investigations detected that the origin of the electrical failure came from one of the sockets where Melanie tried to connect the decoration lights, the cables were in very poor condition and even generated short circuits, these failures had to have been repaired long before selling the house

“Electrical installations are a very sensitive issue, many times real estate agents do not mention electrical problems because otherwise the customer would not buy. Depending on the level of deterioration, it is sometimes necessary to change all the wiring, which generates many costs and reduces profits for these vendors, ”said Dwight Fuller, a specialized technician of the electrical system workers association.

How to find out if my house has problems with electrical wiring?

It is essential to carry out inspections of the electrical system of your property frequently. When noticing the smallest detail in the operation of the electricity in your home it is recommended that you call a specialized technician, do not try to make repairs in the electrical wiring if you are not trained for it, or else you could suffer a serious accident.

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HICH LTD offers the best property survey reports in the entire market, with which you can detect not only problems in electrical wiring but also any other failure, whether structural or internal. Thanks to our innovative techniques and the use of the best tools we can offer a deep and detailed analysis of the current state of your property.

Request your property survey today and prevent your property from further damage. Remember that your well-being and that of your property is our priority.