Actualy it was a few nights before Christmas the night of the 20th-21st of December....
We were just about to go to bed when we smelled this electical fire smell. And I didn't think much of it, but thought it would be best to check the cabinet with the electricitymeter and the fuseboxes anyway. To my horror we discovered the cable shown above was charcoaled for a good 2 inches.
Our immediate reaction of course was to do a quick mental inventory of which items are worth saving (computer, photos, etc.) and where they were just in case...
then inform the landlord and when he came over he just yanked that cable clear out of the meterbox??!
Lucky for me the electrician of our powercompany came just before 3 AM to say he was unable to fix it that night. I was not amused when I had to go to work that morning. Coming home after work that day I noticed they had replaced the whole meter.......
Unfortunately now every evening at 23.32 exactly, on my watch, we have a power failure and the main fuse trips.
The only way to get the electricity back on is to turn the power off leading to the storage heaters (the white box on the right with all the little switches). We do have some electrical heaters but they are no way near capable of heating the whole house not to mention they are not very cost effective. We were heading not for a white Christmas but a freezing Christmas.
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