One often hears in the news about a house burning due to an electrical fault, with no further details, like whether it was old insulation perishing or a DIY bodge. I bought a house in which somebody installed an extra power socket in the kitchen, spliced into the nearby electric stove feed. Now that had a 40 A breaker. So if the toaster had a short, it could have gone up in shower of sparks.
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8 years ago