This really could burn your house down!

This fuse holder has been bypassed by a piece of wire.

We found this during an electrical inspection. A bathroom fitter had added a small fuse board and used the brown wire to supply it from the existing fuse board, as they didn't have a fuse, they just bypassed the fuse terminals.

This is extremely dangerous in quite a few ways however the two biggest problems are, there is no fuse in the circuit meaning if a fault or overload occurred there is a significant electric shock and fire.