Who/what is 'worth it' - the tenants, or 'every possible modern safety device' (or both!!) ?Because they're worth it
adding a double socket to the house 32a circuit
That consumer unit is old, and certainly would be beneficial to replace it.
However replacement is not necessary for the addition of a double socket to one of the existing circuits.
I somehow dioubt that it is a "Consumer Unit", by any definition of which I am awareShould I replace my consumer unit, it was installed in 1959.
Maybe, but I would then have been too young to 'notice' them. I know of the cast iron switch-fuses because it continued to be the case that there was nothing other than them in my parents house (which we moved into in 1956) until well into the 70sThe brown Wylex fuseboxes made their debut a few years before.
Thanks. That's all quite possible. It was well into the 60s before I first saw anything that we would recognise as a 'fusebox', and I imagine that the first ones I saw would have been Wylex Standards.I'll try and do some more research into the Wylex fuseboxes. I was told by the technical guy Ian Kenworthy at Wylex in the 90s that the Standard fusebox was introduced in 1956 but he may have been a few years out.
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