YOU CAN DO IT! How to fix the power
Sometimes the power cuts out. If it does, find out where your consumer unit is.
It’s usually located high up in the hallway or in a cupboard.
Here’s where it is in my apartment. You may have a newer consumer unit
with automatic circuit breakers and RCDs. Or you may have an older fuse box.
They sense overloads in the power system, and then cut the power.
Find the problem! Check whether the RCD has tripped, or which fuses are down.
On this little marker, you can see where in the apartment the problem is.
Look around the apartment to check what might be faulty.
Do you have multiple appliances running on the same fuse?
Have you recently connected something, like a phone charger?
Or perhaps the toaster, kettle, or coffee maker has broken?
This can happen suddenly, even if it was working fine yesterday.
Go and reset the fuse. Then it should work.
It was as I thought – the phone charger.
If the problem lies with your fridge or oven, you can’t fix the problem yourself.
You must then contact your landlord or the person looking after the property.
In older versions with porcelain fuses, the power will cut out in the same way.
Find the fuse which has blown, where the “eye” has loosened.
Replace it and find the problem like I showed you before.
Porcelain fuses are available in grocery stores, electrical stores, or supermarkets.
They come in packaging like this. This one is red, but they vary, so check carefully!
Buy the same colour fuse as the colour of the plate that the fuse is screwed into.
Here’s what you need to restore power:
A chair or stool, a torch or a phone flashlight,
and a new fuse if you need one. So, now you know what to do!