My daughter has a newly-built house, and recently a bulb blew in her cooker hood. Her husband replaced the bulb but neither the lights nor the fan are working. They think a fuse must have blown, which seems right, no MCB in the consumer unit has tripped, so it must be an individual fuse.
I am used to appliances being connected via a switched fused connection unit but this is different. There is a 5 gang switch box above the work surface labelled for the various appliances, but there are no fuses there, and I cannot see them elsewhere either, having looked at the back of the base units, on top of the wall units and everywhere else I can think of without success.
I can only suppose that the appliances have a fused flex outlet behind them, but that would make the fuses highly inaccessible, when you consider moving out the fridge-freezer, the dishwasher and so on. The cooker hood is sealed against the wall with silicone and I am reluctant to pull it off and cause damage to the decorations without knowing for certain that I will find the fuse behind it. Is it possible the fuse could be anywhere else?
The instruction manual for the hood assumes it is connected to a separate switched fused connection unit, so there is no fuse built in. The builder is not being helpful,
