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Then how is C3 ever supposed to be used if it's only C1 and C2 which signify immediate or potential danger?

Crabtree C50's were far better built than most of the stuff available today. Back in the early 1970's the "fixer-upper" 1930's house we moved into needed a full rewire and my father fitted a board of C50 breakers. At that time, I'm sure it must have been the only C50-equipped house in the...

What if it's both an electrical accessory and a piece of furniture? ;)

Interesting, I hadn't realized they'd reverted to the older coding (not been following recent changes too much since I left the U.K.). Is it really 2-pair as per that eBay listing, or just plain quad like the old P.O. cable though? But either way: No, whether it's twisted pairs or not it...

For some reason I'm now seeing Kenneth Williams as Rambling Syd Rumpo with some old song from his gander bag.....

Perhaps we shouldn't ask who turned it off? ;) Assuming that the set is plugged into a duplex receptacle (double socket), you might want to try using the other outlet. It's a common arrangement for one half to be switched and the other permanently live.

What's to stop you from making an observation about something on the report without giving a C1, C2 or C3 code? How do you handle red/black wiring instead of newer brown/blue? Red/black doesn't comply with the current regs., but it hardly warrants a code recommending that it be changed...

And if the system is copper pipe throughout the house? Do you really want a fault to that pipework at any point to make the entire system live throughout the house? (Assuming that it isn't earthed anyway via a boiler, immersion heater, etc.).

I can't add much but to emphasize that a sub-£2 PIR direct from China is going to be nothing but cheap junk which at best probably won't last and at worst could be downright dangerous. And "CE" marking really means nothing if you buy direct from China, since there are many companies there...

For water you have no choice of supplier, so you'll be with whichever company serves the area. Drainage is included in the water bill, assuming you have mains drainage and aren't on a sepric tank. If you're in Scotland, I believe that in most cases the water bill is incorporated into your...

Just on the one phone or on any of them? What do you hear when you pick up at first - Just a quiet "tick, tick, tick" sound? Unlikely, unless it was so poor that there were intermittent shorts. Damage during installation could do it as well, but that's more likely to give random issues than...

The "D" inside a square logo comes from Square D originally being called the Detroit Fuse & Manufacturing Co. Apparently the symbol became so well recognized that they decided to adopt the "Square D" name instead. As far as residential applications are concerned, the two common Square D...

A couple of examples have been mentioned already, but it seems relatively rare on U.K. brands, unlike here in the States where many makes of breaker (regular and GFCI) have a "center trip" position and you have to push the operating handle all the way back to off to "catch" the mechanism in...

Given the paranoia surrounding lead these days, they'd probably either be wary of trying or the result would be too expensive due to some "environmental tax" which would be placed on it.

I don't see anything which suggests 3-phase either, just a D.P. switch in the middle with a BS88 fuse carrier either side. Live/neutral fusing seems unlikely given the newness of the Hager apparatus; even if it had started out as such at one time, the change to the newer equipment would...

The Road Traffic Act, Highways Act etc. generally apply only to the public highway, and for a few specific purposes to private land which is open to public access (e.g. you can still be charged with drunken driving in a privately owned car park if it's open to the public).

Yet the kids seem to think that MP3's, their iPods et al must be better because they're the latest thing. Not that sacrificing reproduction quality matters with the garbage they listen to these days.

Your fence is on your own private land, not a public highway.

And country singer Merle Haggard a couple of weeks ago - He lived on a ranch property in the small town of Palo Cedro, just a few miles from here. http://www.krcrtv.com/news/country-star-merle-haggard-dies-on-79th-birthday/38895230

Using countersunk screw heads with a metal back box seems to be all too common, but it's just not the proper type of screw for the application.