"dave stanton" wrote in message
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not taking out the whole house as in the UK).

Explain how please ? Thats a very sweeping statement.

I was thinking of older houses with about 6 fuses and possibly 1 RCD. All
lighting is on one trip, all sockets on another and so on. I agree more
modern housing is a bit better but that's a small percentage.

With the system proposed in the 90s, all rooms would have their own RCD so
you never take out anything outside the room.