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

A homeowner ran a heavy-duty extension lead across the lawn to a new garden office, and it tripped the whole house's RCD every time it rained hard. A garden room needs its own buried SWA supply and sub-consumer unit, not an extension lead. This guide covers why an extension lead isn't a real fix, how the SWA-to-consumer-unit handover works, why it's notifiable under Part P, and sizing cable with room for future use.

A homeowner upgraded from a 7kW to a 10.5kW shower and kept the existing 6mm cable, assuming a cable is a cable. Within weeks there was a burning smell near the isolator. This guide covers how kW rating, run length and installation method decide cable size, and why the isolator and breaker need checking alongside it whenever a shower's rating changes.

A guesthouse fitted USB sockets throughout every guest room but left reception on its original two sockets, both already taken by the card machine and PC. Guests with dead phones borrowed staff chargers that then went missing monthly. This guide covers why reception sees more charging demand than any single guest room, why a combination USB-A/USB-C socket suits the desk better than a single-connector option, and why keeping guest charging on a separate circuit from POS systems is worth doing.