Private landlords are putting lives at risk by ignoring electrical faults oakland ca. berkeley montclair piedmont ca electrical fire hazards ignored.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/private-landlords-are-putting-lives-at-risk-by-ignoring-electrical-faults-8651801.html   Landlords are required by law to ensure that electrical installations are maintained in a safe condition.  But they aren’t doing that by and large.

300,000 counterfeit square D breakers sold are causing fires. Chinese counterfeits.

  http://www.philadelphiaelectric.com/recall__federal_pacific_breaker.htm  From this article: Counterfeit breaker information.

Commission Closes Investigation Of FPE Circuit Breakers And Provides Safety Information For Consumers due to lack of money to make tests.

    http://www.cpsc.gov/en/Newsroom/News-Releases/1983/Commission-Closes-Investigation-Of-FPE-Circuit-Breakers-And-Provides-Safety-Information-For-Consumers/   The cpsc has decided not to spend the money to prove that fpe, or federal pacific stab lok breakers are defective, placing millions of home owners at further risk of fire and smoke inhalation caused by these awful defective breakers and panels.

Berkeley lab introduces new bench marking tool to increase power efficiency.

http://www.buildings.com/news/industry-news/articleid/15893/title/berkeley-lab-releases-free-benchmarking-tool.aspx  Lawrence laboratory at U.C. berkeley introduces new bench marking tool, software, to compare energy efficiency of buildings.  

Power outage berkeley montclair piedmont oakland hills. Power loss, power outage repair, trouble shooting lost power.

                                              http://piedmont.patch.com/groups/editors-picks/p/major-power-outage-in-oakland-berkeley-hills       This power outage in the berkeley oakland hills was caused by a squirrel who got fried in the transformer room.  It affected over 10,000 customers with lost electricity. […]

Electrical fire displaces family from their home.

http://www.idahostatesman.com/2013/06/05/2604179/garden-city-house-fire-started.html  There are thousands of fires every year from bad federal pacific panels that don’t shut down when they must shut down.  Here is an excerpt from a recent fire article: “GARDEN CITY — An electrical problem in a Garden City mobile home sparked a blaze that significantly damaged the house Tuesday. Two adults and their […]

Electrical fire lays waste to ederly couple’s home.

http://www.starherald.com/news/local_news/fire-burns-home-in-rural-minatare/article_769a8f88-cca8-11e2-990a-0019bb2963f4.html   Firefighters rushed tothe elderly couples home late Sunday night to extinguish an electrical fire that was quickly laying waste to the valuable house.  Don’t let this happen to your parents home.  Please fix the electrical system before their violations do some real damage.

How can people live in a house with multiple electrical violations, knowing that this could happen to them?

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2013/05/fatal_syracuse_fire_draws_atte.html  Two more dead due to electrical action items not repaired. How can people live in a house with multiple electrical violations, knowing that this could happen to them?

Three fatalities in one week on a lake due to bad wiring, no gfi, gfci outlets.

          ne.com/article/20120709/NEWS/307099868/1001  Check out this article, and then you will see the importance of having gfi outlets on your own home and business. According to a preliminary autopsy report released late last week on Brayden Anderson, the cause of death was inadequate delivery of oxygen to the brain due to insufficient […]

Home inspection checklist:

http://www.startribune.com/local/yourvoices/205733671.html Check out this article.  It’s a typical home inspection check list with lots of pictures, that we see on thousands of homes we have worked on, and been referred by the top local home inspectors.  Jeff Armstrong chief among them.