What Counts as a Plumbing Emergency?
A plumbing emergency is water you cannot control, water reaching somewhere it will do serious damage, or a failure that leaves a home without something it cannot manage without until the next working day.
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What Counts as an Electrical Emergency?
An electrical emergency is a fault that puts someone at immediate risk of fire, shock or injury, or one you cannot make safe by switching it off. Heat, smoke, burning or fishy smells, sparking, scorching, exposed wiring and any shock are the signs that usually put a problem in that category.
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Emergency Home Repair: Who to Call for Plumbing vs Electrical Problems
In an emergency home repair, call for whatever is causing the danger: an emergency plumber for water you cannot stop, an emergency electrician for sparking or burning smells — and 999, the gas line, 105 or your water supplier when it is not a repair job at all.