I've just bought a house that I suspect was rewired approx 3 years ago. I've checked the cabling behind sockets and light switches and it's all thick, grey shielded cabling -- which I've been told is at least semi-modern.
My issue starts with the fusebox. It's an old Wylex one, with 6 rewireable fuses (2x30,2x6,2x15) from memory. Since it's all split rather well I'm not too worried about the quality of the work - from what I've seen terminations look clean and tidy. What concerns me is why would you bother to rewire a house back then, but not swapout the fusebox for a modern consumer unit?
It's started to worry me that it was not done because a CU is less "forgiving" to wiring faults, and that installing it would lead to constant tripped breakers.
I was just looking for some advice on people experiences with this before I go ahead and get a CU installed.
My issue starts with the fusebox. It's an old Wylex one, with 6 rewireable fuses (2x30,2x6,2x15) from memory. Since it's all split rather well I'm not too worried about the quality of the work - from what I've seen terminations look clean and tidy. What concerns me is why would you bother to rewire a house back then, but not swapout the fusebox for a modern consumer unit?
It's started to worry me that it was not done because a CU is less "forgiving" to wiring faults, and that installing it would lead to constant tripped breakers.
I was just looking for some advice on people experiences with this before I go ahead and get a CU installed.