Gallery of Horrors
| When moving a socket lower down, some kitchen fitters had decided to make the connection in the old socket and fill it with plaster before tiling over the hole. The connections failed to take earth to the socket, so the fault had to be found. Luckily, the customer had a spare tile and could remember where the old socket was. |  |
| This was just a blown fuse! But it went with such force that it has melted the top half of the fuse holder. Luckily for the householder, they didn’t have one of the wooden framed, open backed fuse boards. This was fire retardant plastic. |  |
The interesting thing here is the cable on the right. This is a rubber sheathed cable, phased out in about 1960. Over 40 years old, this type of cable’s insulation is now starting to crumble, leading to potential of faults and fires. What was really strange was that this house was built in 1968, long after the introduction of PVC cables. |
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Example of how not to plug into a socket |
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Exterior cabling before investigation |
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| Previous jointing of cables doesn’t quite meet current safety standards |  |
