Recent content by edhed1uk

Only when there's a full moon. Edna

You were right, there is a crack in the bottom fuse carrier. The fuse for the lighting is the left hand one. There are earth wires, too, they just don't show up in the photo (Lord Lichfield I ain't!). There is another fuse box underneath the one in the photo. This is a newer one, installed...

Thank you for those kind words, JohnD, considering this fuse box is younger than I am!! Hubby agrees it's time to fork out for a new one. We should probably have the whole house rewired while we're at it. Oh boy, not something to look forward to but c'est la vie and all that (and it's a...

I read your post out to my hubby, Davy, and he agreed with everything you said. He has removed the remaining fluorescent light in the kitchen so now the lights in the living room only flicker once when we switch other lights on! There's no "clicking" coming from the fuse box either but I don't...

The cables are plastic covered and hubby says there's no problem with earthing and bonding conductors. I guess the fuse box is the original one. We moved in when the house was 16 years old and we have been here 30 years now and it hasn't been replaced since we've been here. I'll take a photo...

For over a week now we have been having problems with our main lighting. We would switch on the living room lights, then the fluorescents (2 on one switch) in the kitchen. The living room lights would flicker madly, then go out altogether. Other times the living room lights would go out when...