Chloelouanne
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Hi, so we have been living in a house that was built in 1880s/1890s, and we have had a few issues with the electrics.
I mean we live in a pretty cheap house and am quite aware that the reason we have these issues is because of that, but I would like to at least live safely!
So March 2021, our electrics kept tripping the switch, no matter even if we unplugged everything it still wouldn't work. So this electric guy came over, somehow made the switch stay on and plugged a extension plug socket into the mains and said to use that. Which was ok for a few weeks but we then needed to use electric in other rooms so we bought three different long extension leads. A year later and due to illness and covid restrictions etc its still not done and were still using the extension leads. Some reason the plug sockets don't work but the lights and cooker do?... Today my partner was cleaning the downstairs hallway light and it snapped completely off, I will add photos. Its rusty, looks frayed and burnt out and has a left a hole in the fixture. Am I ok to wait until the maintenance woman is back until Friday and get onto her then or should I call the emergency line? the emergency line charge if its deemed it can wait. We are private renting.
Any advice would be amazing as we are really worried. x
I mean we live in a pretty cheap house and am quite aware that the reason we have these issues is because of that, but I would like to at least live safely!
So March 2021, our electrics kept tripping the switch, no matter even if we unplugged everything it still wouldn't work. So this electric guy came over, somehow made the switch stay on and plugged a extension plug socket into the mains and said to use that. Which was ok for a few weeks but we then needed to use electric in other rooms so we bought three different long extension leads. A year later and due to illness and covid restrictions etc its still not done and were still using the extension leads. Some reason the plug sockets don't work but the lights and cooker do?... Today my partner was cleaning the downstairs hallway light and it snapped completely off, I will add photos. Its rusty, looks frayed and burnt out and has a left a hole in the fixture. Am I ok to wait until the maintenance woman is back until Friday and get onto her then or should I call the emergency line? the emergency line charge if its deemed it can wait. We are private renting.
Any advice would be amazing as we are really worried. x