- Thread starter Kayos
- Start date
Barking Mat
Cuddler of hedgehogs.
- Messages
- 13,462
- Location
- France, Brittany.
When did electrickery become widely available? I've a hundred year old house, with similar fuses, till the electricity board changed them. Depends where you are in the country. And when it was first installed?
slim_boy_fat
Member
- Messages
- 29,532
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Where in the property are they installed? Could be for activating buzzers to summon the Butler/Chauffeur/ Footman from 'downstairs'. 
brightspark
Member
- Messages
- 41,253
- Location
- yarm stockton on tees
so would I and bin it
Kayos
Gone......
- Messages
- 9,422
- Location
- Yorkshire
Where in the property are they installed? Could be for activating buzzers to summon the Butler/Chauffeur/ Footman from 'downstairs'.
They are definitely fuses, above the door to the drawing room. No other bell or buzzer system visible
It's a good size house, other than a rewire in the 70's then being left for 30 years it hasn't been touched, the free standing bath and cast iron high level cistern are being restored
slim_boy_fat
Member
- Messages
- 29,532
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
I wonder what the letters stand for?
brightspark
Member
- Messages
- 41,253
- Location
- yarm stockton on tees
its a sub mains fusebox used for lights .the neutrals are fused as well . was at a house 4 years ago that had them with lead covered rubber cable still working 
Kayos
Gone......
- Messages
- 9,422
- Location
- Yorkshire
its a sub mains fusebox used for lights .the neutrals are fused as well . was at a house 4 years ago that had them with lead covered rubber cable still working
I've found conduit wiring upstairs but it's all been chopped off
I have idly wondered occasionally- just how many people have been killed on the crapper by a falling cast iron cistern?
Kayos
Gone......
- Messages
- 9,422
- Location
- Yorkshire
Very solid brackets
Brackets yes, but the fixings- as a student I lived in a flat where the cistern was 'stabilised' by a frayed piece of rope up through the lath and plaster and round a joist.....
CoValent
Member
- Messages
- 155
- Location
- Limerick, Ireland
As a way to cover up a murder, that certainly qualifies as niche.
rtbcomp
Moderator
- Messages
- 18,574
- Location
- Sheffield UK
its a sub mains fusebox used for lights .the neutrals are fused as well . was at a house 4 years ago that had them with lead covered rubber cable still working
We moved into a house in the late sixties that had rubber insulated wiring and live/neutral fuses. That cost us a rewire we hadn't bargained for.
500e
Always buy fire insurance a flood is a hard start
- Messages
- 9,236
- Location
- South West
The live\neutral fuses were standard stuff when I was apprenticed the rubber VIR \ lead covered was also around on a lot of older properties you could remove the neutral fuses & nothing stopped working we used to love those re wires down the scrappy with it.
There was also wood trunking some with separate groves for individual wires, usually superbly fitted with capping panel pinned on,
As for servants bells with maybe buzzer & flag never saw any fuses in the circuit most ran of Accumulators or big round dry cells like these
we used to love those re wires down the scrappy with it.There was also wood trunking some with separate groves for individual wires, usually superbly fitted with capping panel pinned on,
As for servants bells with maybe buzzer & flag never saw any fuses in the circuit most ran of Accumulators or big round dry cells like these
rtbcomp
Moderator
- Messages
- 18,574
- Location
- Sheffield UK
The live\neutral fuses were standard stuff when I was apprenticed the rubber VIR \ lead covered was also around on a lot of older properties you could remove the neutral fuses & nothing stopped working
There was also wood trunking some with separate groves for individual wires, usually superbly fitted with capping panel pinned on,
As for servants bells with maybe buzzer & flag never saw any fuses in the circuit most ran of Accumulators or big round dry cells like these
We had the rubber/lead wiring in a house, along with the grooved wooden trunking. In another house the servants bell was powered from Leclanche cells in the basement with bell and indicator board in the attic. The coils in the bell were insulated with a double layer of green cotton thread. (Double cotton covered)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leclanché_cell
The live\neutral fuses were standard stuff when I was apprenticed the rubber VIR \ lead covered was also around on a lot of older properties you could remove the neutral fuses & nothing stopped working
There was also wood trunking some with separate groves for individual wires, usually superbly fitted with capping panel pinned on,
As for servants bells with maybe buzzer & flag never saw any fuses in the circuit most ran of Accumulators or big round dry cells like these
There’s still a fair few of the wooden back boxes around too.
bletchmonster
Member
- Messages
- 702
- Location
- Cheshire. England.
We had similar fuses in the farm house I grew up in, along with lead sheathed twin and earth wiring. The newer stuff was rubber covered. My dad said it was all installed to carry 50 volts from the lister Cs diesel and glass jar battery bank in the barn.
When 240 volt mains came along they
just fed it into the existing system.
Was still like that when we left the place 20 years ago.
Unfortunately it and the farm buildings have now been sanitised and filled with Cheshire set yuppies. Them sort don't appreciate fizzleing cables smoking up the farrow and ball.
When 240 volt mains came along they
just fed it into the existing system
. Was still like that when we left the place 20 years ago.
Unfortunately it and the farm buildings have now been sanitised and filled with Cheshire set yuppies. Them sort don't appreciate fizzleing cables smoking up the farrow and ball.
brightspark
Member
- Messages
- 41,253
- Location
- yarm stockton on tees
that's modern the place I started at still had the charger in for leclanche cells in square glass jarsThe live\neutral fuses were standard stuff when I was apprenticed the rubber VIR \ lead covered was also around on a lot of older properties you could remove the neutral fuses & nothing stopped working
There was also wood trunking some with separate groves for individual wires, usually superbly fitted with capping panel pinned on,
As for servants bells with maybe buzzer & flag never saw any fuses in the circuit most ran of Accumulators or big round dry cells like these
I found a few under a floor a few years ago https://www.google.co.uk/search?sou...s-wiz.....0..0i131j0j0i10j0i13i10.CTCBIZhJMs4
Stueeee
Old git
- Messages
- 1,085
- Location
- N W Kent
The first house I bought still had lead sheathed rubber insulated wiring when I moved in. There was tons to do to make the place livable in (even though I was living in it at the time) so I decided to do the the rewire "as and when"
I changed my mind about the urgency of this job when there was a flash and a bang from the 15A socket when I switched on my bedside light. This cable was flat twin, the earth connection to the smoked socket came from some tinned copper wire bound round the lead sheath. A quick check with a meter showed that the earth continuity didn't get back to the distribution
I changed my mind about the urgency of this job when there was a flash and a bang from the 15A socket when I switched on my bedside light. This cable was flat twin, the earth connection to the smoked socket came from some tinned copper wire bound round the lead sheath. A quick check with a meter showed that the earth continuity didn't get back to the distribution
