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Flat problems
Sep. 3rd, 2009 10:26 pmThis morning, the bulb in my bathroom blew. Fortunately there was a replacement in my cupboard of bits and pieces. However I figured I might as well get another bulb so I've still got a spare. So I got myself an energy saving equivalent of the bulb while I was out today. I got home and fitted it, turned on the light and *bang!* out went all the lights. I figured that the lighting breaker must have gone as everything else is still on and so I go to find the breaker box.
In where my meter is, there's no breakers and in fact in the year I've lived at the flat, I've never known where my breakers were. I figured it might be something in the meter box but I didn't know what I was looking at so I recruited the assistance of my Dad. He confirmed there weren't any breakers or anything that could be accessed in the meter box so there must be a separate place for them. After almost giving up and also asking a neighbour where their box was, we finally found it next to the oven behind a set of drawers... not somewhere I would have looked normally.
Anyway having finally finding the box, it turns out it's a fuse box which I've not dealt with before. Inside the fuse box was fuses but it wasn't obvious which was faulty nor how to even remove them. Not that I had a replacement even if I could remove it. So, not having lights isn't considered an emergency so I will have to wait until tomorrow until I can get an electrician out to fix the damn thing. Maybe I can convince my landlord to fit a breaker box rather than an ancient fuse box... but I doubt they'll pay for that if they can just pay for a fuse. As I'm not fond of bathing in pitch blackness, I think I'll need to wait for the electrician before having a bath. Just as well I'm off work tomorrow!
In where my meter is, there's no breakers and in fact in the year I've lived at the flat, I've never known where my breakers were. I figured it might be something in the meter box but I didn't know what I was looking at so I recruited the assistance of my Dad. He confirmed there weren't any breakers or anything that could be accessed in the meter box so there must be a separate place for them. After almost giving up and also asking a neighbour where their box was, we finally found it next to the oven behind a set of drawers... not somewhere I would have looked normally.
Anyway having finally finding the box, it turns out it's a fuse box which I've not dealt with before. Inside the fuse box was fuses but it wasn't obvious which was faulty nor how to even remove them. Not that I had a replacement even if I could remove it. So, not having lights isn't considered an emergency so I will have to wait until tomorrow until I can get an electrician out to fix the damn thing. Maybe I can convince my landlord to fit a breaker box rather than an ancient fuse box... but I doubt they'll pay for that if they can just pay for a fuse. As I'm not fond of bathing in pitch blackness, I think I'll need to wait for the electrician before having a bath. Just as well I'm off work tomorrow!
