This illustrates one of the many problems when buying houses. You want to know what you are getting, but it can feel awkward to ask the owners if they mind you removing accessories to check cabling, or looking in the cupboard under the stairs (which they have no doubt stuffed all their junk in for the viewing!)
Wylex fuseboxes are quite common from 1980s properties. E.g. mine is 1985 and has Wylex rewireable fuses. In the photo there is a cartridge fuse sitting on top of the one at the very bottom, would that help estimate a date?
I really don't like the black cable coming out of the black unit: no outer insulation on the first few inches. Not to mention the same no one of those T&Es coming from the Henley block.
I reckon you should attempt to get the wiring taken account of in the haggling anyway, I remember reading that 25 years is the recommended time between rewires, if that isn't 25 yet it is very nearly there!
Wylex fuseboxes are quite common from 1980s properties. E.g. mine is 1985 and has Wylex rewireable fuses. In the photo there is a cartridge fuse sitting on top of the one at the very bottom, would that help estimate a date?
I really don't like the black cable coming out of the black unit: no outer insulation on the first few inches. Not to mention the same no one of those T&Es coming from the Henley block.
I reckon you should attempt to get the wiring taken account of in the haggling anyway, I remember reading that 25 years is the recommended time between rewires, if that isn't 25 yet it is very nearly there!