fuse wire outside of fuse

[entranced]

hi all, my friends rented house seems to develop electrical faults like a curcuit for a socket in the kitchen is so dodgy we dont use it...we have told the landlord but he never does anything about it. The thing is.....now a fuse has blown in the kitchen...a 30amp one and when we took it out we found that wire had been soulderd onto the outside.....thing is i am worried now about fire...what you folks think? and also i guess we all been there when a wireover the fuse has got us out of a jam but isnt this situation a bit negligent or even illegal?

[Dris]

I dont know if its illegal but I had one just like it during the week and I still dont have ceiling lights in the old part of the house (complicated to explain).Ive been advised to get an RDA box so you would have to see your landlord.Spooky eh? Considering that not many propertoes have fuse boxes now.

[The Builder]

........ a bit? ................ a LOT negligent ............... I'm not a property lawyer, but a dodgey socket and a bodged fuse. He really has a duty of care with rented out property ............ legally I would say. Press him for repairs. If no luck, then your local council offices (Environmental Health Dept).............. or Citizens Advice Bureau. They'll know for sure.

[mrs_nordling]

Why not contact your local fire brigade, have a chat with them and see if their influence will put the wind up your landlord, particularly from the electrical safety angle. Have you got smoke alarms fitted? They have to be mains type not just battery run in rented accommodation. Never, ever, increase the size of the fuse wire as, rather than the fuse melting on a fault, the cable will instead and that's when fires start.