Advice very much needed, as I am worried about safety.
We recently had a very bad leak in our bathroom - a pipe under the bath popped off and a whole bath of water gushed through the ceiling, down into the kitchen below.
A lot of water ran straight through the Consumer unit (photo attached) and tripped the board straight away.
Insurance company sent an emergency electrician who said that the electric was not safe to put back on and put up a temporary board. We had to move out of the house and it has been empty for over 6 months whilst the walls have been dried out etc.
Baring in mind that the Consumer Unit has not been used for 6 months and basically stood in a cold house possibly cording away due to it be saturated by hot soapy water (lots of it) - I was very surprised that the company doing the works has had their own electrician inspect it and he deems it safe not to replace it. They have also re-instated the same spot lights that literally had water running through them.
Firstly like to say that the company doing our work are very good - but I'm not sure if they told the electrician they had come to inspect the electrics that the CU had been totally saturated.
Since turning the electrics back on we no longer have electric in our garage - which has never been a problem before.
As I said, I am genuinely worried that when we eventually move back in that the electrics will not be safe.................I would definitely be replacing all the fire alarms.
With so much soapy water running through should the unit be changed?
We recently had a very bad leak in our bathroom - a pipe under the bath popped off and a whole bath of water gushed through the ceiling, down into the kitchen below.
A lot of water ran straight through the Consumer unit (photo attached) and tripped the board straight away.
Insurance company sent an emergency electrician who said that the electric was not safe to put back on and put up a temporary board. We had to move out of the house and it has been empty for over 6 months whilst the walls have been dried out etc.
Baring in mind that the Consumer Unit has not been used for 6 months and basically stood in a cold house possibly cording away due to it be saturated by hot soapy water (lots of it) - I was very surprised that the company doing the works has had their own electrician inspect it and he deems it safe not to replace it. They have also re-instated the same spot lights that literally had water running through them.
Firstly like to say that the company doing our work are very good - but I'm not sure if they told the electrician they had come to inspect the electrics that the CU had been totally saturated.
Since turning the electrics back on we no longer have electric in our garage - which has never been a problem before.
As I said, I am genuinely worried that when we eventually move back in that the electrics will not be safe.................I would definitely be replacing all the fire alarms.
With so much soapy water running through should the unit be changed?
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