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Yeah, some cable manufacturers seem to be producing very uneven cable. Yep again, agree with this think logically stuff. But I don't think it helps to tell a guy he should have got out $1000 of test gear and measured things like crazy before daring to turn anything on. Helpful suggestions...

So just how many people go down to the CU and test the circuit after replacing a light switch? And if you had to remove the cables from the breaker to test them, do you then check for continuity of the reconnected cables? Do you check all the connections in the CU in case any have come loose...

Okay, the theory of bathroom bonding is to wire together everything earthy to ensure that they are all at the same voltage and you can never get the situation which you did get. Though arguably it worked, because although you could feel a shock you did not come to any harm. If all the current...

As everyone posting here knows, lots of houses still have a missing earth in the lighting circuit. Nowadays it is quite common to buy electrical equipment which is 'double insulated'. In other words, designed to work without an earth and supplied with a mains cable having only two cores. I...

Nope.

It would only be impossible if you travelled back in time and changed something which would have prevented you travelling back. Obviously, this is not possible so you are assured of this small success before you set out.

You mean he has ambitions to become deputy prime minister? Didn't someone say he gets a pension of half his PMs salary for life? thats quite a good job with minimal responsibilities. Add it to his ordinary mps salary.

Or think of it like those glasses you can squash up then then metal unfolds and you have the same shape back.

He still plans to do better then his hero, maggie. So he needs at least a couple more years.

Check or little date stickers or moulded dates on the fittings. Though, of course, you are entitled to change fittings even in a kitchen.

Not an earth which someone has sleeved with a piece of cut off black instead of green? Should be the central uninsulated wire with red one side and black the other of a standard cable.

You have copper water pipes? If the pipes are copper then the taps will be at the same voltage as the pipes. If there is direct metal contact this is obvious, but if there is a plastic flexible connector it is less obvious and via the water. No water, no connection. Even though you can feel a...

Are you sure this 1mm cable is connected to the sockets supply somewhere and not to the lighting circuit? Anyone playing games like this might have just connected the boiler to the lights. (which would then be fused correctly)

Ghostly, haunted house sort of laughter?

A bit like the anarchist resistance in Iraq. Give them a bit of attention by invading their country and they start committing mayhem.

It is quite true developers have never had it better, But that is because price of land with no planning permission 10,000 but with it becomes 1,000,000. That only means one thing. There is very great demand for land with planning permission. Mr Prescotts half million new homes is planned...

O find it hard to believe that Blair and Bush believed sadam was fooling Blix. Rather, they wanted to believe it as it gave them a convenient excuse...

Dunno mate, I missed it. But I expect it will be sorted.

Building inspector man he say..... You did know that a patio is required to conform to building regulations? I think it is probably just a belt and braces approach. But you should think about the possibility that the damp course might not be in very good nick. Then those two layers of brick...

When you dig out an old post you always find the bit right down in the ground is perfectly fine. They always rot at ground level. If you really want them to last then hardwood posts should last longer. But you would have to find them first and pay. Chemically pressure treated is better than just...