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<blockquote data-quote="curious-one" data-source="post: 403413" data-attributes="member: 26856"><p>Always fun to begin a discussion. The current Fusebox is just outside my bedroom, above the door. So it's an escape route for me if a fire broke out in the night, though having said that there is also a window out onto the roof of the garden room so I could escape that way without breaking my ankles. I must say reading about the CU fires has got me thinking, I've never even considered checking tightness of the terminal screws in previous houses, just gone down the thought line of "A qualified spark installed it, so it must be fine". Having read on a few electrician forums now that a fair few have gone back to units they know they did correctly and found loose connections shows just how much change electromechanical force can cause. Also Lurch was right on finding more faults before a CU, I was checking the switches and found very old rubber insulated wiring so I'm changing that to 1.5mm twin and earth before I get a spark in, no point bringing one over to point out something I can already see.</p><p></p><p>I must confess though, all this has made me think about all the light fittings and sockets I've just casually changed over the years without a thought for circuit resistance (like thousands of people I guess). I only began doing it after a childhood of watching my dad take out all the lights for 4 hours every time something needed changing so figured it out as a teenager and done it ever since, and thank god for live dead live testing. My grandmother asked me to change a collapsed socket for her once and confirmed she'd turned the power off, luckily I always test myself and discovered she'd just turned off the shed power. Thankfully I've never been electrocuted, so I'll stick with my current regime of triple checking everything and hopefully this mess will get sorted very soon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="curious-one, post: 403413, member: 26856"] Always fun to begin a discussion. The current Fusebox is just outside my bedroom, above the door. So it's an escape route for me if a fire broke out in the night, though having said that there is also a window out onto the roof of the garden room so I could escape that way without breaking my ankles. I must say reading about the CU fires has got me thinking, I've never even considered checking tightness of the terminal screws in previous houses, just gone down the thought line of "A qualified spark installed it, so it must be fine". Having read on a few electrician forums now that a fair few have gone back to units they know they did correctly and found loose connections shows just how much change electromechanical force can cause. Also Lurch was right on finding more faults before a CU, I was checking the switches and found very old rubber insulated wiring so I'm changing that to 1.5mm twin and earth before I get a spark in, no point bringing one over to point out something I can already see. I must confess though, all this has made me think about all the light fittings and sockets I've just casually changed over the years without a thought for circuit resistance (like thousands of people I guess). I only began doing it after a childhood of watching my dad take out all the lights for 4 hours every time something needed changing so figured it out as a teenager and done it ever since, and thank god for live dead live testing. My grandmother asked me to change a collapsed socket for her once and confirmed she'd turned the power off, luckily I always test myself and discovered she'd just turned off the shed power. Thankfully I've never been electrocuted, so I'll stick with my current regime of triple checking everything and hopefully this mess will get sorted very soon. [/QUOTE]
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