Urgent Safety concerns in rental property

paintpot

Pssst wrote: »

If your not happy,simply give your landlord the required notice and look for another property.

I appreciate where you are coming from but

a) that is not always as easy as it seems - it costs money to move house even for rental properties and there are many folk totally strapped for cash at the moment


b) even if they serve notice they have a month at least to serve meanwhile living with the worry of potentially dangerous problems, heating issues, no water etc with a young child as well as sourcing somewhere else new to live etc etc

Premier_2

The_Ejaculator wrote:

...So, for the last couple of days I have had electric heaters plugged in around the house (Which I had to go out and buy). Today, one of these has actually burned itself into the electric plug socket...

...the only reason it turned off is because it blew the fuse in the extension cable attached.

This isn't the first electrical fault to happen. A couple of months ago exactly the same thing happened to the plug which the washing machine was plugged into. ...

When the "Usual" guy that my landlord uses eventually came around to replace the hob (Two weeks later) I showed him the plug and he said that we had overloaded it and that it was all our fault??!...

The 'usual' guy was right.

Running on "2 wires" will have no effect on the fault you describe. "2 wires" simply implies that the modern specification for earthing is not in place (although that does not mean there is no earthing at all). However the earthing is achieved, and even in the unlikely event it wasn't present at all, will not prevent overloading. You even admit that you blew the fuse in the extension socket. That indicates you had caused an overload.

The_Ejaculator

Premier wrote: »

The 'usual' guy was right.

Running on "2 wires" will have no effect on the fault you describe. "2 wires" simply implies that the modern specification for earthing is not in place (although that does not mean there is no earthing at all). However the earthing is achieved, and even in the unlikely event it wasn't present at all, will not prevent overloading. You even admit that you blew the fuse in the extension socket. That indicates you had caused an overload.

Well, the fact that when I returned home last night and saw how the plug had actually MELTED into the wall socket, sorry, but I tend to find that kind of stuff a tad disturbing, am I getting paranoid about nothing? this may be commonplace in your home but not mine. With regards to me overloading the socket, it was the only thing plugged in so I can't see how that can be the case? Throughout the night the electric was flashing on and off, obviously fine as well. Ok, so i'm just worrying about nothing. Thanks for the peace of mind.