How much did the advice you received on here, actually cost you?
Being on site, is a thousand times better, than making a diagnosis from descriptions and photographs.
What has tenant done to the electrics?
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How much did the advice you received on here, actually cost you?
Being on site, is a thousand times better, than making a diagnosis from descriptions and photographs.
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Must have been a solid short to cause that fuse to 'blow'!
Or were the tenants growing lots of something?
Or were the tenants growing lots of something?
If they were, they must have stopped growing it after the fuse blew, since they would not have got much current 'for groing' through that puny little bit or wire
As I wrote earlier, one of the easiest ways to blow a cutout fuse is by injudicious 'fiddling' with the live system resulting in a L-N or L-E 'short circuit'
As I see it you have been given excelllent and absolutely correct advice from a selection of highly experienced members of the forum. However this Forum has DIY in the name so yes it is intended for DIYers to become members as the only way to ask for advice, indeed from your questions and comments it appears you are in that situation.
I am a member on 2 forums where only qualified members exist and being unqualified yourself you would not have been able to pose your question so those sites would have been totally useless to you... so what exactly is your comment?
Not only was the advice correct, but it was diagnosed correctly too, in that the fuse had failed, and been botched with a random bit of wire.
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It was a strange comment to make after all the good advice
People on here had only had information from an unqualified person to work on. Yes you have supplied good pictures but:
None of us have been able to make a proper assessment of the situation.
None of us have been able to make any assessment under health and safety legislation.
None of us have been able to make an assessment under Electricity at work legislation.
I may very well have been tempted to make the same action of your neighbour but if any on here suggested that you ripped it out and there was a big arc resulting in you losing your sight or your life it would have left us open to legal action.
Additionally as the law stands the 'Electrician' ripping the wire out has potentially left himself open to prosecution for tampering with the evidence you have posted on here and sent to the electricity provider.
This wasn't just a light switch that someone had a problem with, this was potentially a very dangerous situation with the added complication of the ramifications of tampering with someone elses legal property.
I think you can be reassured. There is a sufficient number of knowledgeable and experienced regular members of this forum that no advice which is incorrect or questionable will go uncorrected or un-challenged
I would suggest that you probably should avoid assuming that advice from "experienced tradesmen" is inevitably good, or even necessarily correct, advice. Whilst that is very often the case,, I could show you tradesmen who had very many years of 'experience' of not understanding things properly and not doing things well.
On the other hand, there are (here and elsewhere) a good few people who are not "experienced tradesmen", usually not tradesmen (in relevant trades) at all, whose advice is excellent.
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My father-in-law had a lovely plaque on his desk, it said "These people who think they know it all, are specially annoying to those of us that do." and it was so true.
However, he also had the gift of the gab, Dark suckers for example I knew he was wrong, and so did he, but trying to explain why, not so easy.
However, he also had the gift of the gab, Dark suckers for example I knew he was wrong, and so did he, but trying to explain why, not so easy.
Nothing.
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What professional advice are you going to offer?
Hope the DNO fit something to support the incoming cable to remove the weight of the cable from the terminals in the cut out fuse holders
Now the OP thread has basically finished. There are 2 things here that strike me:
1, the before pictures does not have a fuse lable, so DNO/Energy provider have attended inbetween times, and
2, both halves of the cover have been removed, whereas only the front would have been necessary.
The more I think about this, the more I wonder if if something like this was taking place
To steal electricity and some arcing evidence was left behind
1, the before pictures does not have a fuse lable, so DNO/Energy provider have attended inbetween times, and
2, both halves of the cover have been removed, whereas only the front would have been necessary.
The more I think about this, the more I wonder if if something like this was taking place
To steal electricity and some arcing evidence was left behind
No.
This is an open forum where anyone can post.
Anyone taking advice from here do so at their own risk.
There could be no legal implication whatsoever otherwise 99% of internet fora would shut down.
I'm not so sure that is 100% accurate in todays litigative status involving H&S and Duty of Care.
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