As with all these sensationalist stories where statistics are quoted they are always a little light on fact how many incidents were there in the intervening years or does that not make a good story
As with a lot of statistics holes can be found in them while the "fuseboard" may have gone up in flames for the statistic to have any meaning the cause needs to be established. How many times has a customer gone out bought a 10.++ Kw shower and expect you to replace their old lesser Kw shower when it's pointed out that the cable and possibly the pull switch are not rated to run the new shower you are seen to be being a jobsworth and creating work and expense.
There are a lot of bigger better appliances out there these days that people are probably connecting to existing wiring and accessories without any concern or thought for the increased load coupled with the fact that very few people get their electrics checked every 5 - 10 years as recommended you have a recipe that once it's been baking for a number of years it all goes wrong with a fire
Without hard facts this story needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt rather than pointing fingers and apportioning blame by guess work. No where does this state they are all domestic incidents so if we are going to jump to conclusions exactly how many fuseboards (domestic, commercial and industrial) are installed in the LFB area and 253 of them went on fire or were they just called as a precaution and it is counted as a fire call. Been to quite a few smouldering boards in my time that had no intervention from the fire brigade that would never make the stats cause only me and the customer knew about it
As with a lot of statistics holes can be found in them while the "fuseboard" may have gone up in flames for the statistic to have any meaning the cause needs to be established. How many times has a customer gone out bought a 10.++ Kw shower and expect you to replace their old lesser Kw shower when it's pointed out that the cable and possibly the pull switch are not rated to run the new shower you are seen to be being a jobsworth and creating work and expense.
There are a lot of bigger better appliances out there these days that people are probably connecting to existing wiring and accessories without any concern or thought for the increased load coupled with the fact that very few people get their electrics checked every 5 - 10 years as recommended you have a recipe that once it's been baking for a number of years it all goes wrong with a fire
Without hard facts this story needs to be taken with a large pinch of salt rather than pointing fingers and apportioning blame by guess work. No where does this state they are all domestic incidents so if we are going to jump to conclusions exactly how many fuseboards (domestic, commercial and industrial) are installed in the LFB area and 253 of them went on fire or were they just called as a precaution and it is counted as a fire call. Been to quite a few smouldering boards in my time that had no intervention from the fire brigade that would never make the stats cause only me and the customer knew about it
