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In your picture it's switched off so there's a good chance it's not connected to anything (to anything that's in use?). With the power switched off you could try opening it up and seeing if there's any input and output cables and the direction they come from, but it's scarcely worth it if...

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There used to be (still is?) a computer company by the name of Wang, they had some lapel buttons made up saying "Wang Cares".

I'd have expected the the 4 normal switches to be daisy chained together, so that 3 (not the last in the chain) would have 2 wires in the COM terminal and 2 wires in the MAKE terminal, is the picture "other switch.jpg" of the switch which is furthest from the Timer switch? Obviously I'd be very...

Living down to my moniker and proving I can be a right pedant: I agree the earth wires could be slightly better positioned but as the blue wire goes round the plastic "hook" in the rose, I believe it's more likely to push on them.

Sometimes people on here recommend this sort of thing: https://uk.farnell.com/ampohm-wound-products/fe-sp-cr28-470-100/cap-sup-x2-0-47uf-250vac-radial/dp/1438452?MER=sy-me-pd-mi-alte to prevent the glow, but I've no personal experience of these.

I'd be tempted to try to turn that valve off and if it won't turn then try to turn it on and, if it moves, see if you hear water going into the tank. At end turn valve back to where it was. If you can turn it off then there's probably a float valve in the tank. If it's seized up then...

The usual advice on here is that it's perfectly alright to add a socket onto a (pedantically) ring final as long as you are sure it IS a ring final and that the circuit is protected by an RCD (all new sockets must be RCD protected). edit: EFLI beat me to it.

But TTC is pretty accurate when he says: The "safe zones" show where you must be careful 'cos they might contain electric cables and, as others have said, you show where these zones are by having a switch or socket or one of a few other things in the wall. Living down to my moniker, arguably...

It's my, possibly faulty, memory that the GPO had their ANN (All Numbers Now) advertising campaign in the early 60s, so that label is unlikely to be less than 50 years old.

It wasn't quite like that, for some time (many months, possibly more than a year) you could use either 0171 or 0207, equally 0181 or 0208 so within London we had to use 11 digit numbers. Then 0181 & 0171 were scrapped and 020 became the London prefix.

Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-57777935 Seems to be saying that Southern Water deliberately discharged raw sewage, it wasn't a case of torrential rain causing an overflow.

Just being a pedant (again), sorry: I believe TTC meant "I would NOT..."

You can get pattress boxes which convert a single socket to a double, such as (link): https://www.toolstation.com/axiom-pattress-box-conversion/p80152 Obviously you have to get a double socket as well and there's no guarantee that the current cable is long enough to fit into the double socket.

At the risk of sticking my nose in where it doesn't belong. I believe:

A while back there was this thread about which boilers the pro's on here had at home: https://www.diynot.com/diy/threads/professionals-which-brand-of-boiler-do-you-have-in-your-home.565931/

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Nylon screws are available, e.g (link): https://uk.rs-online.com/web/c/fasteners-fixings/screws-bolts/machine-screws/?applied-dimensions=4294881404,4294474537 Obviously I'd suggest you discuss with your sparky whether (s)he'll replace the screws in your light switches as part of installing the...

I'm no expert but I'd be very surprised if the box couldn't handle the heat, it's not as if it's connected to an oven. However I'd probably try to make sure it isn't touching the dishwasher.

I've no personal experience of this, but I've heard that, long long ago, light socket usage was covered by the standing charge so she'd have got free electricity for the ironing.