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Anonymous user 28 February 2024 - 3.29 PM
Hello, I hope you can help. I live in a housing association house, we are due to have a new kitchen fitted and the work will start Monday. My question is I have been told that once the electrician has fitted the new plugs/electrics and my appliances get plugged back in, if they trip the electric I will have buy new appliances ? To me this sounds wrong but im no expert. I hope it is wrong because we cannot afford new appliances, some of them aren't even a year old !!! Thank you
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E3 Electrical
I am assuming that as part of the kitchen refit you are having work carried out to upgrade the consumer unit with an RCD (Trip Switch)
If you have been using your existing appliances without having RCD protection then it is possible that the appliances could be faulty without you knowing, so the surveyor is making you aware that in some cases that can happen.
It only usually happens in extreme cases where the appliances have been misused or kept in damp conditions, but, if they do trip it means they are unsafe to use and the new RCD would have identified the fault.
I hope that puts your mind at rest.
Answered22 July 2017
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