On 31/05/2015 11:11, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article . com,
dennis@home wrote:
But the users doesn't know the rules and may well put several high
demand loads on for days at a time, say heaters and dehumidifiers after
a flood as you appear to think no one would ever have a reason to do so.

The UK 13 amp ring had been around for over 60 years. At one point - long
before central heating was the norm - it was also common to have just one
ring for the entire house.


Back in the days when a heater would have cost a weeks wages and not £10
in asda.
People back then wouldn't have had more than one or two heaters to use.

Come to think of it what did we have in the 50's.. one single bar
electric fire and a portable gas heater that plugged into a bayonet gas
connector in different rooms.
Oh and coal fires.

Yet no one seems to have found the problems with it you seem to
anticipate. Wonder why?


Because nobody investigates the problems and when they do they say it
was installed to the regs so its the users fault.