All that's left to do now is inform your insurance company.
tintop,
Mar 25, 12:50am
Tell them that the wiring is now safer than it was ?
I have some wiring yet to do in the basement/workshop, and I want RCD protection on at least all the down stairs circuits . Next job is to get a sparky to do the RCD's and make the extra connections, and recheck the whole house.
(And it wont be a left handed Scot/Pom Lol )
tintop,
Mar 26, 12:37am
Mmmm - the place we were in about 20 years ago was owned by a Swiss guy that set up a business in the garage, Most of the wiring was exposed and connected by the screw type terminal strip connectors. and attached to the framing by tacks driven in through the old (tru rip?) central earth conductor. At least he did use the earth.
richard112,
Mar 26, 3:33am
Remember way back working with UK equipment that was fused both active & neutral. (Sorry if the terms age me). It was a reputable manufacturer, Gallenkamp, & industrial units. Mainly remember because one of the bastards caught me one morning with a blown neutral fuse. Never have worked out any advantage of doing that But wonder what else the poms have up their sleeves.
nzjay,
Mar 26, 3:52am
Haha, been caught with something similar many years ago too. The latest 'tricky" thing to deal with, is most European and Asian equipment has one colour for ALL phase (live) wiring. black. Gets difficult tracing just the red phase (-;
t_naki,
Mar 26, 12:28pm
A lot of UK houses use an earth supplied in the main cable and it can be a bit dodgy at times and so maybe they can fuse the neutral because it can rise above earth potential?
aredwood,
Feb 20, 11:12am
In Europe there are countries that have houses supplied with 3 phase at 230V delta. (phase to phase) So fusing is needed in both phases as they are both live compared to ground. (NZ is 400V delta)
And there is the USA split phase system of supply. Where high load appliances are connected phase to phase.
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