MSE Parents Club Part 10

tiamai_d

The whole house needs rewiring and we need a new fuse box. DH doesn't beleive me but one plug started fizzing sparks ages ago, so one down. Today a fuse went but we don't have any fuses and I can't get the thing out! Plus when I tried the box sparked at me! So I turned it off (duhhhhh) and then broke a nail and scratched a finger trying to prise it out. DH will do it tomorrow, he's well insured.

And also moaning about how much it will cost to rewire. We only need a sparky to do fuse box, FIL is a sparky (but works on street lighting so refuses to do the fuse box cos he's never done a modern one) so anyway, FIL can tell DH how to do sockets. And it aint as if we're spoiling our prettily decorated house ripping out plugs, the house a shambles anyway. But I'd rather a non sparking shambles!

tarajayne

Trouble is Tia, if you sell and the surveyor checks the electrics for more recent works, you have to produce a completion certificate, they changed the law couple of years ago!

SusanC_2

tarajayne wrote: »

Trouble is Tia, if you sell and the surveyor checks the electrics for more recent works, you have to produce a completion certificate, they changed the law couple of years ago!

I thought you were allowed to do stuff yourself but you have to get a qualified electrician to certify it?

tiamai_d

mleh, anyway, Dh just phoned. FIL is coming up at the weekend to do a MEGA TEST (I expect that involves a transformer outfit and suitable shee-owww-eee-eee-owww sounds) and he is going to switch fuse box to a trip switch type (it was the meter itself he wouldn't change) and switch the broken socket(s) and fix things and stuff.

As if I could even talk DH into selling this crappy little house anyway huh!

tarajayne

Yep Susan, spot on, and they charge a small fortune to do it, tut!

I hope you get something sorted Tia, or just move OH into that part of the house and you live in the other, see how he gets on!

tarajayne

Gotta go, DS1 wanted a family meal for his birthday, so now starts an evening with my ex!!! Blurgh!

MadDogWoman_2

Just catching up, there's 13 years between DH (1963) and me (1976)

SugarSpun

Tara, I have figments of the internet on another website on the case too, one of them has sent me a link where I should be able to find a bit of information (he does internet stuff for other PALS trusts) and another is asking a midwife friend

csh_2

I'll join the 1979 club and OH is 1981 :cool:

tiamai_d

Hmmm..... house prices seem to be back up now.

And I like this

But there is no parking (just out of shot is the 30signs for the village) and no access to the rear.