RugbyRebels

So, I have a problem with the fuse box...partially because we did not label it when we bought the house, and the previous owner did not either.

The issue is that we have a naked cable upstairs for an infra sauna that was never installed. And our daughter got into the fuse box and turned them all on/off. And now we don't know which controls which...

I have labeled half the fuses. 1 controls the cooker, and 7 control lights and plus sockets in all the rooms, outside and in the garage and basement.

Which, unfortunately, leaves us with 7. 7 fuses I have no idea what control.

All the other large appliances - heating, water, fridge, dishwasher, washing machine, are plugged into wall sockets. So it's not them: they all work.

What could I have missed? Where could 6 fuses be heading, so I can figure out which one is for that bloody cable!?

External lights?

Sockets you haven't tried?

Smoke detector?

Any sub boards that are in a garage/shed etc?

Leave them off, until you find something not working and then eliminate the options. It may be that they are spare fuses/switches and don't have anything connected.



Oh and get the sauna hooked up, very porno..

Ready built consumer units tend to come with varying numbers of mini circuit breakers, half of the circuit breakers may not be wired up

stud muffin wrote:Ready built consumer units tend to come with varying numbers of mini circuit breakers, half of the circuit breakers may not be wired up

Thanks for the replies guys.

Wasn't a ready built unit. Was built by previous owner. Lot's of crazy little things wrong with it, tbh. And considering he was a plumber, the plumbing could do with some work...

They are all currently off. We discovered one of them was connected to the oven. Didn't realise, as the oven's light was on a different bloody circuit!

An electrician will come sometime in the next week to look over, but we'd like to get some work done with the heating, and will need an electrician for that, as well as a heating engineer, so final work will wait until the end of summer.