On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 17:59:11 +0100, John Rumm wrote:

On 22/10/2014 11:06, Andrew wrote:
On 21/10/2014 23:50, GB wrote:
On 21/10/2014 23:49, GB wrote:
On 21/10/2014 23:30, Uncle Peter wrote:

It appears she did. And when I said I had fuses she was horrified..

I've just had some fuses replaced with trip switches on a house I'm
letting out. It makes life an awful lot simpler.


I should have said that the trip switches are just a plug in
replacement, so it's very easy to do.
And any professional sparky reading this will say that this is a
pointless exercise, and in the case of the Wylex variety are actually
more dangerous (under certain conditions) than the rewireable fuse they
replaced.

The main reason that rewireables are deprecated for tenanted properties
is that they allow the unskilled and otherwise less caring of the
properties wellbeing alter the rating of the fuses.

From rentals I've seen, changing the fuses is the least of the landlord's problems. Most rentals need about £2K of doing up after each tenant moves out (or runs off without paying rent).

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