Kent Traders — UK Hotel Supplies, Electrical Essentials, Bathroom Fittings & Fire Safety

A primary school fitted standard white moulded sockets along classroom skirting and was replacing cracked faceplates within a term. Schools take more physical abuse than a house or office: furniture contact, trolleys and constant footfall crack domestic-grade sockets fast. This guide covers metal clad sockets, dado trunking height, fan isolator duty ratings, and the finger trap guard detail worth adding while a refurb is already touching classroom doors.

A landlord replaced a failed bathroom extractor fan with whatever unit looked closest to the old one, and the property still failed its damp inspection because the replacement moved less than half the air the room needed. Here's how Part F sets minimum extraction rates by room type, how to convert between l/s and m3/h, and what to check before buying a replacement fan.

A guest ordered ten replacement bulbs for a downlight and every one arrived with the wrong base, because the old bulb wasn't a GU10, it was a bayonet cap that only looked similar in a photo. Here's how to tell GU10, bayonet B22 and Edison screw E27/E14 apart before you order, and why they can't be converted between each other.