Tenant arranging repairs

dabbler · 9th Mar, 2019

marmot said: ↑

A couple of good points being raised about the plug in circuit breakers , there are only a stop gap measure ,and only protect the board and the appliance, not the person
But am I the only person that had to change the old fashioned wire type , at night, in the middle of winter while it was pouring down with rain , using technology that was almost 40 years old.
Due to the nature that they should only go very irregularly and they come in 3 ? different sizes plus trying to remember where the fuse wire was kept , that had not been used for maybe 8 years, would challenge most people , especially if your not home and its just the kids and the wife, and in my case playing around replacing a fuse holder while its raining and standing on a wet surface , wasn't an ideal position to be in.
That's one advantage of the newer types had, and it was also a lot quicker to fault find if the circuit uses multiple appliances , like toasters kettles and pumps etc.
You could easily turn off all the appliances that used that circuit, reset the breaker , then slowly start turning on the essential items first , followed by the others.
Obviously if you had scorch marks,load bangs or really hot fuses , its time to get a sparky out asap, but the person who really should decide that is the person that is going to flick the switch back on, and taking ALL the risk, especially if they are sleeping and residing in the house.
The other big issue is the modern home has many more appliances than those built in the 70s and 80s.
Our house has more power points in the kitchen area alone, than an entire house would have had in the 1970s, and it was the same type of fuses that some builders were still putting in houses in the early 90s.
Typically what would happen is that every time we requires a sparky , we would also include a couple of upgrades, around the house.
Over time everything was upgraded and modernised
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Keep fuse wire in the board area.

Your description of your kitchen sort of sets out the problem and what I was saying, if people stuck to the rules and the circuits are done properly, then there is little to fear from porcelain fuses, they exist in houses i have had, have lived in, I have them in my home currently, and it is not a problem at all, if I showed you my board, you would freak at the number of porcelain fuses, none of which are overloaded.

Getting back to the topic, the OP has no need to change the dedicated HWS setup, it is a legit setup, and doe not pose a problem as long as correct fuses wire and cable etc has been used, it will probably outlive at least me.....

Gill Bates · 9th Mar, 2019

Propertunity said: ↑

I rarely do it, but in this instance I find myself siding with the tenant. So there is an electrical fault with smoke and loss of power on a Sunday evening. The
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Tenant did not call the nominated tradie.
Tenant is supposed to have read the agreement.

Gill Bates · 9th Mar, 2019

Handyandy said: ↑

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Personally I think you will loose up to the full amount plus some before a magistrate mainly due to it being dark and not able to find rental lease in the dark.
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Everyone has a mobile phone and therefore a TORCH today. Such a TORCH could have been used to find the rental agreement.

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