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EICR - Old Rewireable Fuse boards are these acceptable?

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Hi, 


I need verification that it is ok to keep old style Wylex rewireable fuse boards to pass the EICR. Initially the electrician said this was ok providing they have a cover for the fuses. However he has now changed his mind and saying they need to be replaced with a new consumer unit. Some of the homes do not have a cover on the fuse board and others have had the cover taken off so plug in mcb's can be accomodated. Is this still ok?
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    Jaymack:

    A CU in a nursing home in Scotland had a fire in a storeroom, about 10 years ago, many old people were killed in the fire, thought attributable to an open fuseboard which did not contain the molten metal which set fire to cardboard boxes. I have seen the results of molten metal sparking on the metal edges at fuses, probably caused simply by pushing in the fuses onto a faulty circuit. Be wary of fuses, especially where no cover is fitted and where the Public is concerned. When all else fails use bloody great nails.


    Jaymack   


    Yes, an electrical cause is always assumed when the real cause can not be identified. Nothing to do with somebody secretly smoking in the cupboard of course. 


    Z.


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    Jaymack:

    A CU in a nursing home in Scotland had a fire in a storeroom, about 10 years ago, many old people were killed in the fire, thought attributable to an open fuseboard which did not contain the molten metal which set fire to cardboard boxes. I have seen the results of molten metal sparking on the metal edges at fuses, probably caused simply by pushing in the fuses onto a faulty circuit. Be wary of fuses, especially where no cover is fitted and where the Public is concerned. When all else fails use bloody great nails.


    Jaymack   


    Yes, an electrical cause is always assumed when the real cause can not be identified. Nothing to do with somebody secretly smoking in the cupboard of course. 


    Z.


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