Any advice would be grateful..in my daughters house the down stairs lights have blown, the fuse keeps on tripping.
She phoned for electrician who duly arrived and instead of fixing the fault he proceeded to some how by-pass the lighting circuit by taking a live feed from the consumer unit...the lights worked for 40 minutes or so then mcb tripped out but by this time the electrician had gone...she promptly phoned him back...told him what happened he arrived 3 days later checked the circuit again and replaced the 6amp mcb with a 10 amp mcb, the lights came back on but after an hour or so the 10amp fuse blew again..
She phoned him again he wasn't happy so far he as not returned to her house but he did say that he has been a electrician for 11 years and that he has done nothing illegal.
Oh she paid him £70.00...please help surely this is not normal practice to remove a 6amp fuse and replace it with a 10amp fuse...this must be dangerous
my daughter as been without lighting for 2 months
cheers...john
She phoned for electrician who duly arrived and instead of fixing the fault he proceeded to some how by-pass the lighting circuit by taking a live feed from the consumer unit...the lights worked for 40 minutes or so then mcb tripped out but by this time the electrician had gone...she promptly phoned him back...told him what happened he arrived 3 days later checked the circuit again and replaced the 6amp mcb with a 10 amp mcb, the lights came back on but after an hour or so the 10amp fuse blew again..
She phoned him again he wasn't happy so far he as not returned to her house but he did say that he has been a electrician for 11 years and that he has done nothing illegal.
Oh she paid him £70.00...please help surely this is not normal practice to remove a 6amp fuse and replace it with a 10amp fuse...this must be dangerous
my daughter as been without lighting for 2 months
cheers...john