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Hmm. Could always paint some galv trunking with a PVA/sand mix to give a brick texture, and then brick red. Once installed, touch up with some mortar coloured paint so it blends in better. Not a quick or easy job however.

Look at this.

You can certainly use a 4 way (or indeed any number of ways) bar and cord extension. I would steer well clear of the box type socket doublers, as I don't consider them very safe or reliable. Of course you are required to ensure that all electrical equipment is safe, one way to prove that...

Well they've clearly never heard of IDC punchdowns... But what a genuinely naff job they ended up doing!

And indeed the suitability of the installation method, which may well be the problem here.

So it's not tripping an RCD. Try plugging a desk lamp into it and see if it comes on, even very dimly. It could be massive voltage drop under load, enough to kill the neon. What voltage does a neon need to ignite?

When you switch them off again, do the red lights come back? Tim

Normal light fitting and microswitch hidden in door frame?

You can register an abstention by spoiling your ballot paper.

If you want a good treatment of the AV system relatively free from idiotic statements and general scaremongering, read this

We're slowly blocking access to our veg beds by neighbors bamboo, trees etc by digging in sheets of builders membrane along the boundary, up to three spade depths in places. Stops their roots getting in and our water escaping. Hard work but works a treat.

Someone really needs to re-asses their network structure... Urgently.

You might be able to fit an RCBO to replace the RCD in the consumer unit for that circuit, provided it's recent enough. That would be much easier than individual RCD adaptors on each socket. You can also get double sockets with an RCD built in, again might be easier/neater.

T is also the first letter of both three and triple...

Care to elaborate? It of course assumes that you get as far as surviving inserting said nail, which would be far from certain![/b]

Start with the assumption that you don't do something you don't need to. As yourself if there's any reason the earth bar should be split. If you can't think of one, it's probably because there's no need to do it.

This wiki article may be informative...

I take down gorse regularly as part of a national trust group, all trogged up in thick, long leather gloves, and even then, with a few of you going at it, a few pushing/pulling and another cutting, it's still very painful. Do be careful burning it, it's remarkably easy to get a gorse bonfire...

If you want to do a convincing job, stump out the worst with a chainsaw and burn it, treat the stumps and just keep mowing the smaller stuff. If the remnants of the old fence are still there, you want to get rid of them before you do much else and before too much of it gets buried.