Can You Sort Out A Fuse/MCB
 

Simple question, if you blow a fuse or trip a circuit breaker in your fusebox or consumer unit can you sort it out or do you get someone to do it for you?

You can select more than one option and it is a private poll.

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Oh, yes and I always know where the fire extinguisher is as well!

Coincidentally, just arrived home, switched the T.V. on, the main on/off switch has gone wrong, Oh, ****** thought I, not worth repairing it's donkey years old, will have to replace the set.

Meanwhile remembered there is a prog' I want to watch later, so with the aid of a 'G' clamp, cork sanding pad and a hinge I have jammed the switch so it stays on.

Yippee, I can watch into the night, in fact since then I've noticed my living room has got a great deal warmer, had to turn the heating down.

Has the thaw finally hit East Lancashire?

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I can definitely say yes to that one Neil

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Get someone else to sort it out...Mrs H.

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Are you not voting that way then?

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You should have glued it before clamping it - typical half a job Less :p:D

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Sorry, Neil, vote cast.

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Wrong again, I thought ahead, I will want to turn it off later and I can never remember which of my multiple adaptors the T.V. is plugged into.

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Gosh Neil ... is years since this happened to me .. think I could ...well, know I could .. just finding the fuse wire .. where the heck did I put it about 20 years ago though ?

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i just ring my brother .. its a damn sight safer him doing it .. if hes nowhere to be found id ring my nieces uncle .. it helps hes an electrician ...

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The problem I had with answering this is this, I'm intelligent and resourceful so I'm sure that if the situation arose and I was on my own and no one around to help, I'm 100% certain I would be able to do it.

However, I have never had to do it because on the odd occasion such thing has happened someone has always offered to do it for me. And I'm not daft either - of course you can do it for me. x

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Right answer Gayle :D

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I've got this back up too Shill ... child's play to him... :)

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You know you only need to ask if you were having a problem.

It would be a good idea if you got someone to show you how to do it in case the lights go off in the middle of the night. Or worse the sockets and you can't use Google to work out how to do it :D

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Last time I tried messing with electrickery, about 20 years ago, I got a shock that sent me flying across the room.

Am now officially barred from meddling with anything electric.

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Would always get help don't mess with things that I don't understand.

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Showing me how to do it wouldn't help, you know I'd only forget. :D

I have a torch and a handy book which my dad gave me when i moved out of their house - it's got really simple 'how to fix things' in it with nice pictures. I have lived on my own before and I did cope. Apart from the time the bird flew in - I definitely didn't cope with that.:D

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option 4

whack a nail in and hope for the best

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get some one to sort, am frightened of owt i cant see, gas n electric etc, owt i can see watch out.:D

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I would not attempt anything to do with electricity not worth it. Get my uncle who is an electrician. To dangerous if you dont know what your doing especially electricity, get it wrong and i guess you would be in for a nasty shock or worse.

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That book would be ok if you still had gas lights :p:D

What about Chris, can he sort it out while you stand looking helpless batting your eye lashes at him?

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Of course he can.

When the burglar alarm decided to go off the other morning because it's insides had frozen, who do you think was up the ladder with the screwdriver and who do you think was still in bed. Although, I did get up once to see what all the noise was and he made me hold the torch for a bit.

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My sisters chap can't, nor can she, thats what prompted this thread.

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That's exactly why I don't go anyway near he sparky boxes Wyn, the fact is that this day and age it wold be hard work dragging an oxygen bottle around if my machine was off:D

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my grandad showed me how to do all sorts of things when i first lived on my own... now i find its usually easier to just do it myself instead of asking someone else :)

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Why did you ask Neil?

Planning a fuse rewiring service? :D

Not only can I rewire it, I can fit a new consumer unit in place of it.... lol

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No chance mate, sound's to much like work :rolleyes: