Water Damaged Consumer Unit

I recently visited a property for a generic RCD and Circuit breakers tripping. The customer had a very bad leak in their bathroom just above the Consumer Unit/Fuse Board – the cold water pipe under the bath burst out and massive amount of water gushed through the ceiling, down into the corridor below.

Of course, lot of water ran straight through the Consumer unit and tripped the board straight away. Since, it was a new built property, the owner called the Housing Team (insurance & warranty purposes) and fixed the leak but not the Water Damaged Fuse board (only visually inspected it).

Strangely, the owner stayed in the house and whilst the walls have been dried out etc. and no temporary accomodation offered. This sounds dodgy right? Baring in mind, that the Consumer Unit was still in use.

Then, all of a sudden after few months the Fuse board was started to buzzing and giving a burning smell (luckily for them, it was a metal enclosure unit and not plastic, since the Wiring Regulation Changed in 2018).

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