Right, about 14 months ago work was completed on a mid-terraced house that we inherited. It was completely refurbished with a view to letting it out, and part of the refurbishment was a complete rewire of the property.
The rewire was done by the builder (who is not a qualified electrician) but Part P was adhered to and, on completion, the relevant Part P police from the local BCO spent about five or six hours doing the full testing and inspection and were happy to give it a full and clean bill of health.
The tenant we have in there rang me today (I was out so I'm working on a garbled answering machine message here) to say that she's having a bit of a problem with the wall lights in the back room - they keep blowing the bulbs, which in turn trips the "fuse" (actually a 6A Type B MCB).
Each fitting has two arms and takes a 60W candle lamp in each arm. She didn't say if it was just one fitting or both that were the problem but she did say that in the 5 months she has been in the house, she has replaced *6* lamps in the back room but not a single lamp in any other room of the house has needed replacing.
Now, I know from previous postings in this group that it's not unusual, and it's not anything to be particularly worried about, for an MCB to trip out when a bulb blows - but what could be causing excessive blowing of bulbs in the back room wall lights?
Cheers,
John