DIYbanter - View Single Post - Non-fused and non-earthed

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More detail would really help, but it sounds like this might be an
ancient rubber installation in need of replacement. If its 1960s pvc
with unearthed lighting, there is a lot less to worry about, though it
would still be short of modern standards.

Either way I doubt theres much mileage in an inspection/test, since it
will fail on a number of points, and if you dont understand the issues
with it now you ilkely wouldnt be able to put the test result issues
into a meaningful perspective. And to rectify things would need a full
rewire anyway.

That leaves motivation from finding out how much is wrong as the only
use of an inspection, but you could get that free by telling us more
about it.

It's my friends flat and he knows nothing about DIY stuff. It looks to
me like a 60's type building - a purpose built block of flats in
Brighton.

He says that's all the fuses were removed when they tried to isolate
the kitchen.
Apparently there was somehting about a master fuse that meant that a
new consumer unit wouldn't be feasible to be installed. Sounds
unlikely to me. Even if the lighting had no earth one can wire up a
modern CU with different types of circuits.

The guy bought the flat a couple of years ago and the electrics were
deemed as "old" but no mention was made to being unsafe etc but I
reckon it must have only been a basic survey. There are extra sockets
in the rooms surface mounted on skirting with the cable tacked on the
skirting around the room so I guess the cowboys have been in before.
The kitchen fitter who did the kitchen moved some sockets but again
they're horrible surface mounted and the diagonal wire that goes to one
of them isn't shielded. Not really a big deal I guess but I wonder
what else is wrong.