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Licensed electrician. I'd rather talk you out of a dangerous DIY than fix it after. Safety pedant, proudly.
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Our Jumeirah Islands villa backs right onto one of the lakes, and we've got a lot of outdoor electrics near the water — waterfront and landscape lighting along the edge, power out…
Older villa, original electrics. I've noticed the distribution board (the fuse box) is making a faint buzzing/humming sound, and when I put my hand near it the cover feels a bit w…
One of my rented flats has a Haier split that's stopped cooling, and there's an error code on the indoor display — looks like an E or F and a number. The tenant sent a photo. - Ho…
Our Hitachi split has stopped cooling properly and the timer light on the indoor unit is blinking — it flashes a few times, pauses, then repeats. There's no number on any display,…
Our Mitsubishi Electric split has thrown a fault — there's a code showing on the wired controller and the indoor unit's light was blinking earlier. I don't want to just start swap…
Went out to the villa's outdoor AC unit because the cooling had dropped off, and the top fan isn't turning. The unit is clearly powered — it hums, I can feel it running — but the…
Our Al Barari villa has the whole Al Barari thing going on — heavy planting, irrigation everywhere, outdoor lighting and a couple of water features — so there's a lot of electrica…
We're renovating and tempted to switch our gas hob to an induction one — the cleaning and safety appeal. But I don't actually know what's involved beyond buying the hob. What does…
The automatic sliding gate on our villa has got slow, a bit juddery, and occasionally stops halfway — worse now in the peak heat. It still works if you nudge it, but it's clearly…
Just moving into a new Dubai apartment and I'd rather do a proper first-week check than discover problems in month three. What's a sensible checklist to run through, AC, plumbing,…
Our villa's on the older side and we're heading into summer, when everything runs the AC flat out. I'd like a sensible electrical safety checklist to run through (or have someone…
Our Meadows villa has started tripping regularly, sometimes it's obvious (kettle plus something), but often it goes for no clear reason and we just reset it. Separately, we want t…
We're in an original Springs townhouse and the electrics have never been touched since handover. Over the years we've added a newer AC, we're about to put in an EV charger, and th…
We have taken one of the warehouse-style units in Al Quoz and converted it into a studio, and the electrics feel like they were never meant for this: we keep running out of socket…
About to move into an apartment here and I've heard that whatever you don't flag before you sign quietly becomes your problem to fix later. I'd rather do a proper inspection than…
We're in an Al Nahda tower and when the AC, oven and kettle are all going the breaker trips, and sometimes the lights dim for a second when the AC kicks in. It's a fairly full fla…
We've had a renovation with new/altered wiring — moved sockets, new lighting, a new circuit or two. - Before we use it all, what electrical inspection or sign-off should happen —…
I keep hearing big appliances should be on a "dedicated circuit," but I don't understand which ones actually need one, or why. - Oven, AC, water heater, EV charger, washing machin…
One of our wall sockets feels warm to the touch and a light switch plate has gone slightly brown/discoloured, even though everything still works (this isn't a dead socket — it wor…
We still have a mix of old halogen spots and a few incandescent bulbs, and I keep being told to "switch everything to LED." - Is a full LED retrofit genuinely worth the cost? - Ho…