Electricity is supplied to every home in Cheshire via a service cable that comes from a local substation. These substations are fed by the national grid. The responsibility of the homeowner and their electricity supply begins with those cables that go from the meter to the consumer unit. 

Any new house in Mottram St. Andrew will have a consumer unit installed in it. However, old properties will have the traditional style fuse box. Despite their differences, these two things are similar in that they have an on / off switch for the mains electricity, and circuit breakers or fuses that work to protect all of the circuits within your house from becoming overloaded. There are electrician services that can help with any issues that you experience with any of these things. 

Despite having these safety features in place, it is important that prior to either yourself or anyone else doing any sort of electrical work in your Alderley Edge house, that you turn the power off or remove the fuse for the circuit that is being worked on. Once this has been done, make sure that everyone else within the property is aware that work is being done to the electrics in order to prevent them from switching the circuit back on and potentially harming the person working on it.