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You could say that a wall mounted socket is better protected from a water leak than one left lying horizontal on the floor. Especially if the washing machine sprung a leak. Also, you have to consider minimum heights (I'm not talking Part M) when mounting accessories, to prevent damage. Eg from...

You can't compare a socket and twin and earth cables lying on the floor, albeit behind an appliance, with "surface wiring or trunking across a...wall." The latter is fully compliant (assuming of course the correct cabling and trunking have been selected. But the former is not compliant...

If the switch at the side of the fire is a fused connection unit, then yes, you could add a second socket outside, tapped off the one behind the fire. But you'd have to switch that switch on (and consequently the fire) to use it. Better to tap off the feed at the fused connection unit, but you...

You only have to look at the average "contentious issue" thread on DIYnot and you'll find a lot of insults flying around between many people.

I came to a shower circuit that was tripping the RCD. Felt the CU case, it was warm. Turned out the MCB wasn't screwed onto the busbar properly, it was getting hot and tripping the RCD.

You would still need to get another core from the 2 gang switch back to the junction box. You could most probably use the three core (if indeed that is what it is) to pull through two new twin and earths. One would be the live feed and switch wire to the light switch you are not altering. The...

Is your wiring layout exactly as per the diagram?

The replacement socket could be a single to twin adaptor socket.

That last bit is a fantasy...

Count Binface's manifesto.

What gets me is this:

I don't think I've seen this. Once or twice perhaps, but 5, 6 7 times?

Sorry, I forgot to add that on Saturday we went to Huddersfield to an 80s concert. Tony Hadley, Sonia, Nick Hayward, Jason Donovan, Stereo MCs, Go West, Nik Kershaw, Kim Wilde, Marc Almond and Matt Goss.

Another of these!

Thanks folks. I considered using the adaptor, but decided in the end to chop the Flymo connector off and use the "Duraplug" two part connector, with the male on the lawnmower and the female on the mains lead. I dismantled the mower (it had 12x T20 screws holding the two halves of the handle...

I prefer 785 in wet areas as it has mould resistance. I was doing the bins today and noticed this on a cheese packet... Was it disgusting before 1974??

I was going to say...we live a few miles from Poynton and shop at the Aldi there. In general, the shared space works well, but the roundabouts are a nightmare because they are treated as a free for all by impatient idiots, mostly in Chelsea tractors. What doesn't help is that the two...

Removing all road markings and delineation between pavement and road is what works, apparently. It slows drivers down and makes them more cautious.

According to the BBC, he was carrying two knives, one shorter "allowed" one and one 8 inch knife.

Have you worked out any reasons why owners of heavy, possibly very heavy maybe polluting vehicles might pay extra taxes that owners of very light bicycles, tricycles etc don't?