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'nuff said. How well insulated are your secateurs for cutting through live cables? :shock:

I got the information first-hand from years spent slaving over a hot soldering iron wiring the places up - from recording to commercial radio and even Auntie Beeb. Sorry, maybe cheapest wan't the right word, but 30 pence per metre for Canford FST is a bargain compared to the "Hi-fi" cables...

Something else to consider is when the tracks you listen to were made in the recording studio, it has been wired using the cheapest cable possible.

Has the broadband always been slower with all the sockets connected? It looks to me like some 6-core alarm cable is being used for one of the extensions, that would certainly cause problems on the line (for several reasons)

The row of colour-coded sockets at the bottom are camlocks Male and female panel mount and male and female cable mount - very similar to connectors on welding kit. Yes, you can connect them any which way you like (phase into earth and so on) and poke your fingers in the live bits...

Ah, so we had naughty cables then - 125A Ceeform one end and Camlocks the other, the pilot must have been linked directly to earth inside the plug!!! Camlocks? You don't want to know...

The pilot pin is used to control a contactor so that the plug cannot be removed from the outlet with a load present. The pin is a lot shorter than the others so always mates last/disconnects first. I can't remember how it was wired (over 10 years ago since I last saw one) but it was more of...

The only documentation I have is the certificate for the original installation and the "survey" that was done when we bought the place. I remember the previous owner saying that the bloke turned up, had a quick look around and then went! :roll: No, there isn't a warning sticker about mixed...

I moved into my current house in April 2006, the property was built in 1999. As I'm now finally getting round to doing the re-decorating and other "little jobs", I've been looking at the electics... I've found a few things that I'm hoping people on here can clarify for me. 1. On the side...

Don't know which is worse, the tea or the wiring! Some of that stuff is almost a work of art... :shock: Does the 5th picture show a length of T+E nailed to the ceiling? (in the top right corner)

What worries me is the UNFUSED 13A plug :shock: that you've got in one of those sockets. I had some of those arrive last year on the end of IEC cables for some computer equipment. Eeek...