Hi,
I have a house about 40 years old which still has the original fuse board/wired fuses.
We had a problem with a bedroom light not working and had an electrician come and fix it. Turned out to be that the previous owners had put in loft flooring and it had been laid over the top of the lighting wiring and when we (thankfully, only very occasionally) went into the loft, walked on the flooring which in turn pressed onto the cables and eventually broke the wires. What caused me to be totally freaked, was that the wires were scorched and the fibreglass was also black, where the wires were being crushed!!! now I am terrified that the wiring will catch fire, in the places where it still works but has been under the flooring?? I can't afford to have the electrician come back and rewire, but he suggested that we change our old wired fuses for the new trip style ones. Our old wired fuses never blew. I've been looking online but can't see what I need (can't remember what the electrician called them)
Someone has said that these trip fuses won't help as they protect against excessive current being drawn. I thought that they would trip if there was a broken wire/overheating in wires etc??
Can anyone help please?
I'm scared my house is going to catch fire
I have a house about 40 years old which still has the original fuse board/wired fuses.
We had a problem with a bedroom light not working and had an electrician come and fix it. Turned out to be that the previous owners had put in loft flooring and it had been laid over the top of the lighting wiring and when we (thankfully, only very occasionally) went into the loft, walked on the flooring which in turn pressed onto the cables and eventually broke the wires. What caused me to be totally freaked, was that the wires were scorched and the fibreglass was also black, where the wires were being crushed!!! now I am terrified that the wiring will catch fire, in the places where it still works but has been under the flooring?? I can't afford to have the electrician come back and rewire, but he suggested that we change our old wired fuses for the new trip style ones. Our old wired fuses never blew. I've been looking online but can't see what I need (can't remember what the electrician called them)
Someone has said that these trip fuses won't help as they protect against excessive current being drawn. I thought that they would trip if there was a broken wire/overheating in wires etc??
Can anyone help please?
I'm scared my house is going to catch fire