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Thank you - I'm going to arrange for an electrician (that came recommended from a plumber who I trust) to talk through our options. I'm not resistant to having the necessary work done at all, although after some bad decisions regarding tradespeople I am now very wary of who we trust with our...

I think this is down to the fuse wire that was wrapped around the terminals of the fuse - so when it's blown, rather than be contained in the housing it's heated up the outside of the case.

Out of interest do you know what a ballpark figure for a total rewire is likely to be? Small 3 bed house on 2 floors if that's of any use. Feel like I couldn't cope with the upheaval at the moment with a small child and nowhere else to stay while it was being done though!

Thanks for all that information. Interestingly we had an electrician in when we first moved in and I was asking about a rewire which he said we didn't need, but suggested a new consumer unit and 10mm earth cable. If we got a new consumer unit, would the whole shower circuit need to be changed...

https://photos.app.goo.gl/rzniTSkLKxVebi2g7 Any help? No, we bought the house 2 years ago.

From an internet search it looks like 9.5kW. what size fuse should it be?

Cheers - I'm assuming this is a straightforward process of knocking the power off and removing and replacing each back panel in turn. I wondered about the 30A fuse as the closest switch seems to be a 32A.

On a related note - I've just found these on Screwfix. These seem like an amazing idea! They look easy to install - has anyone had experience of these Wylex plug-in fuse replacements -...

By on and off do you mean leaving the shower on and just pulling the cord to start the water? (We've never done that)

It's tightening after a week or two standard practice i.e. if an electrician installs a shower pull cord they should technically be revisiting back in a couple of weeks? Yes there are a few surprising things this guy didn't seem to know.

I've replaced the fuse tonight and the shower is now working again - also the pull switch that was jamming before is now working properly, although I'm sure that can't be related to the fuse. What sort of problems? a replacement shower? The electrician reckoned that the wires going into the...

Thanks - do you mean get him to check the shower - or everything that this guy has done?

FFS - This is really messed up - I've replaced the fuse once before when it blew and I'm sure that wire wasn't on it. Could this be what's caused the switch to 'meltdown'? I've removed the wire and will now get hold of another fuse - what's EXTREMELY frustrating is that someone has put this on...

We've just had an electrician in (bit of a disaster if you saw my other thread) who changed the shower pull cord. The previous cord had jammed and when we put the new switch on the old cable was quite badly melted where it went into the switch (I say we as I was sent up to the loft to push more...

Sorry - just looking back at this - what makes you think it wasn't a cable fault?

Thank you. Sorry one further question if you have time... Would it be foolish to replace a very short length I.e. between 2-3 joists? I'm.assuming a longer section would be more stable?

Coincidentally that's what it feels like going up in the loft + 50 years worth of backfilled roof cement slowly migrating foreheads downwards ;-) I'll upload a pic shortly!

Ahhh thank you. Do I need to cut off the tongue on the new board?

Yes - I don't like to be too negative when someone is trying to do their best to make a neat job of something someone's installed badly before themathem... however having this person over for two days.I do have some concerns about their standard of work.

Some of the boxes might come out with some filling, others are trapped in completely as the whole of the rectangle hasn't been cut out of the tiles - hard to describe the shape but it looks like it's deliberately holding the box in. The wires come through the bottom and top of the boxes. They...