Month: July 2026

Cuadros eléctricos: how to tell your consumer unit has been outgrown

The consumer unit — the cuadro eléctrico — is what stands between a nuisance and a fire. In older Canarian properties it is very often the weakest part of the whole installation. Signs yours needs replacing Ceramic fuses, or 1980s breakers with no RCD at all One single RCD for the whole property — when […]

Salt air and outdoor electrics: why coastal installations fail early in Tenerife

Electricity is arguably the most valuable resource we have in our modern society. Without electricity, most of the things we do and rely on on a daily basis wouldn’t be there.

- Volt Electricista

If you live within a few hundred metres of the sea in the south of Tenerife, salt is quietly destroying your outdoor electrical fittings. It is the most common reason we are called back to work that someone else did only three or four years ago. What salt actually does Airborne salt settles on metal […]