Hi, I wonder if you could help me.
We have a house from the 60's that as far as I know has never been rewired or altered as the fuse box is still an original one that you have to replace the wire if the fuse blows and also looks like it belongs in a museum..
Now last night my son fell off his bed and hit his head so hard off a flush fitting double socket that he had to go to hospital and also smashed the outer plastic casing of said socket. So today I went to replace this and thought instead of killing all the house hold power I would just pull the fuse and change it that way.
With things plugged into all the sockets in the house I got my wife to check as I pulled each fuse out and to my amazement when I pulled out the last one none of the sockets in the house had gone off. Now, I'm pretty certain that it does not have a rcd/mcb as it is very old and only has one switch on it which is the main master on off switch.
So I would like to know is this normal and if not could anyone please explain why it may be like this?
Hope someone can help
Ant
We have a house from the 60's that as far as I know has never been rewired or altered as the fuse box is still an original one that you have to replace the wire if the fuse blows and also looks like it belongs in a museum..
Now last night my son fell off his bed and hit his head so hard off a flush fitting double socket that he had to go to hospital and also smashed the outer plastic casing of said socket. So today I went to replace this and thought instead of killing all the house hold power I would just pull the fuse and change it that way.
With things plugged into all the sockets in the house I got my wife to check as I pulled each fuse out and to my amazement when I pulled out the last one none of the sockets in the house had gone off. Now, I'm pretty certain that it does not have a rcd/mcb as it is very old and only has one switch on it which is the main master on off switch.
So I would like to know is this normal and if not could anyone please explain why it may be like this?
Hope someone can help
Ant