Search results

Sorry all, bad explanation from me. I mean digging around in a wall, find and expose a plastic coated wire. Is it live? Installing an exterior light, two cables under the roof. One is live? Is the cable to an appliance live? They seem to be a one-stop solution to such things...

So, when a cable is buried in a wall, say, you can't use a meter surely!?

I'd like to get a quality volt stick for normal domestic use. The one I had from Screwfix became erratic! Any suggestions as to the best (not cheapest) one please? Cheers.

Wow, cheers mate! You are FAR more helpful than some blinkered individuals. :P I'll try those options. BTW, sorry muggles, I missed the £7/m comment, cheers. :wink:

Hate to gain-say you Charnwood but that is exactly the sort of thing my "corner shop" will do for its customers ... it has a sort of makeshift "cafe bit" in the back behind the loaves and jams. Business is about financial risk. My customers expect me to bend over backwards for them and smile...

Oh right, cheers mate.

Cheers Hugh. If you can throw it with any accuracy all the way to Cornwall, I'll send you a pasty the size of your head! Muggles: no I don't expect anything from them except inflexibility and poor customer service. How much would it cost to keep a few off-cuts? If I treated my customers with...

I have a radon sump under the house terminated to the air at ground level with a 4" soil pipe connector cemented into the ground. six plumbing suppliers all said that I need a section of pipe to put in the connector then fit a mushroom (I have that) into it. NOT ONE OF THEM will sell me a...