Recent content by cannontrodder

Hi ban-all-sheds, I'd been turning everything off anyway, we've found lights on sockets circuits, upstairs lights on circuits labelled 'downstairs lights' so you can't trust anything. Anyway, this socket was spurred off an adjacent one in another room which itself is spurred. The other...

It's definitely not an old storage heater, I know enough about the history to know it has been gas central heating only. kbdiy, where you say the 'assumption' it should be a ring, I should be considering the possibility that this is a spur and the other cable is a spur off this one? Because...

The original socket did not work!

Hi all, bit of a lurker, first time poster :-) Just bought a new house and a few of the sockets are in a sorry state so have been replacing them. One of them just doesn't work after replacing the front plate. There's two cables coming into the back box each with live, neutral and earth...