minilathe22
Established Member
Hello everyone,
Having moved house in December it is becoming clear that one of the previous owners was a bit of a bodge merchant and would use whatever they had lying around to finish the job. This appears to sadly also apply to the electrics. So far we have discovered the oven cable was shoehorned into a standard 13amp plug, the electric shower is was using a bakelite switch for a cooker, (both now fixed) and the bathroom lighting flickers when I accidentally poked the cables the other day moving things around in the loft, so who knows what they used for that.
I have old nonRCD style circuit breakers, one which I measured the voltage when turned off read 2v AC rather than zero. Perhaps these are due replacement.
Any other electrics bodge repairs I should look out for from a safety perspective?
Having moved house in December it is becoming clear that one of the previous owners was a bit of a bodge merchant and would use whatever they had lying around to finish the job. This appears to sadly also apply to the electrics. So far we have discovered the oven cable was shoehorned into a standard 13amp plug, the electric shower is was using a bakelite switch for a cooker, (both now fixed) and the bathroom lighting flickers when I accidentally poked the cables the other day moving things around in the loft, so who knows what they used for that.
I have old nonRCD style circuit breakers, one which I measured the voltage when turned off read 2v AC rather than zero. Perhaps these are due replacement.
Any other electrics bodge repairs I should look out for from a safety perspective?