In article o.uk,
"Dave Liquorice" writes:
On Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:17:42 +0000 (UTC), Andrew Gabriel wrote:

This follows a five fold increase in 5 years of house fires starting in
plastic consumer units,

The rise in dirt-cheap CU's is something that's happened mainly
in the last 10 years, so I suspect the proportion of houses with
them has grown dramatically - both new houses and rewires.

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Andrew Gabriel
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