Our electricity supply here has always been a problem, with the main circuit breaker regularly tripping if we decide to put on an electric fire and a kettle at the same time. This is mainly because we have a three phase supply of only 9kw, which means that each of the three circuits in the house needs only 3kw to trip the circuit breaker.
Not knowing how the house is wired means that we don't know which sockets are on which phase, so overloading (it's hard to think of 3kw being an overload, but there we are!) it is not difficult, especially in the winter.
However, we've not been able to change to a single phase 9kw supply because we had a three phase water heater. This, along with all of the old plumbing, has now been removed, and ERDF will be arriving in two weeks to change us to a single phase supply. Yippeeee!
We'll still have to count the number of electric fires that we have on, but having 9kw will still be massively easier than being restricted to 3kw.
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