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It's perhaps a little premature to safe it's unsafe. Assuming the upstream protection is adequate for the current carrying capacity of the cable it's not necessarily unsafe. It's not necessarily usable either.

So BAS, straight forward question, simple answer: What are you hoping to achieve with your posts?

Hi John, I didn't articulate the point very well. I wasn't really trying to argue that a more pragmatic way would be to answer the OPs questions. It was to suggest that BAS's "You're a f***ing d***" approach wasn't yielding results. Indeed, BAS has reiterated his font size 300 message...

That sounds like a piece of pragmatic advice. It's worth noting that this thread has now reached 10 pages and yet there's no sign of it getting anywhere. Indeed, these threads pop up time and again and they all seem to go around in circles. One thing that I've learned in life, when your...

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RCDs come with a button marked "test" and an instruction to do so every 90 days. That should give some indication of the manufacturer's faith in their product.

I hate to be pedantic but I'm not entirely sure what you'd charge a home owner with, if they got an electrician to sign off their work? I guess it might be possible to charge the electrician with fraud under section 2 of the Fraud Act, 2006* but then they would not really be the accomplice...

Not entirely sure why you decided that the wrapping needed to be camouflaged. Were you trying to hide them?

This is commonly used as it allows for easy fault identification. "The fault is on the purple wire"

At least you didn't have to mop up a loft full of water commando style.

Let us know how you get on. I'd be curious to see if this works.

I think the answer here is to get underfloor heating to evaporate the water back into the air.

Sounds like you need a retrospective alarm.

I wouldn't like to go as far as to say impossible. I'd envisage perhaps a coiled wired, like a phone receiver, that attaches to the spoon and an earthing point on the ceiling. It does of course create the dilema of how to put the spoons in the dishwasher. Perhaps the answer is the hand wash...

The spoon would become live and introduce a shock hazard to anyone retrieving the spoon. So what is the correct way to bond the spoon? Also, some of my spoons are a metal end on the wooden handle, do these still need to be bonded?

My guess would be that common is L but I would test for continuity between the terminals with a multimeter and that will tell you for sure.

What's your beef with ADT? Just curious as I moved into a house with an ADT alarm and the workmanship was, erm, below the standards which I myself would aspire to.

Yes, sorry, what I mean was, "if you establish that the immersion heater is faulty..."

Sounds like you need one of those "multimeters" that graphs the PD against time.

9 lamps! Sounds like you need a lamp consolidation, rather than a circuit consolidation!