Recent content by lynwill53

I am very sorry chaps, it seems I have mislead you :oops: My boyfriend, who knows a bit but steers clear of electrics, says I DO NOT have ceramic fuses which went out with the ark, but bakelite ones. I was confused by the ceramic bit where the fuse wire goes. Mine are like this... The...

Wow Chris, are we talking a lot of dosh to change to trip-switches then? :( And KK, the house is only 25 years old. Surely I shouldn't be worrying about re-wiring yet, should I? :shock: I'm actually quite surprised to find these sort of fuses in a relatively new-ish house. My last house was...

My house has the old-fashioned ceramic/fuse-wire main fuses. I live in fear that one day I might have to replace the wire in one of these :shock: Is it possible to replace these with trip-switch fuses that just slot in where the older type ones are now? Or would I have to get a whole new...