Reeth and up the dale beyond it. Stone cottages, holiday lets, working farms and a lot of buildings a long way from the nearest anything. The electrics up here have their own set of problems and pretending otherwise helps nobody.
Almost every modern electrical product now expects an internet connection. Car chargers, heating controls, solar inverters, alarm systems. Up the dale, plenty of properties have mobile signal that comes and goes and broadband that is better than it was but still not what a manufacturer assumes.
It matters more than it sounds. A charger that will only set its schedule over wifi is a nuisance in a house where the wifi does not reach the drive. The Hypervolt fitted as standard here can be wired straight to the router with an ethernet cable instead of relying on wifi, which is exactly the sort of detail that decides whether a unit is right for a Swaledale property or wrong for it.
A good proportion of the property up the dale is let out for part of the year, and a let is a different thing to a home when it comes to electrical safety. Guests use appliances you did not choose, in ways you would not, and the person responsible is the owner.
That is what an inspection report is for. It also tends to be what an insurer asks for after something goes wrong, which is a poor moment to find out it was never done.
The full range is available everywhere on the patch. These are the four that come up most around Reeth and Swaledale.
No. Reeth and the dale are part of the regular patch rather than an exception. What is worth doing is grouping work where you can, so if there are three jobs at the property it is better to do them in one visit than three.
Often yes, and where the wifi will not reach there is a wired option. The Hypervolt has an ethernet connection inside the unit for exactly this, which is not on the specification sheet and is worth knowing about before choosing a charger for a rural property.
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