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    How to beat Sod's Law.

    I figured this was the most appropriate place to post this :) A mathematician, a psychologist and an economist commissioned by British Gas have finally put into mathematical terms what we all knew: that things don't just go wrong, they do so at the most annoying moment. The formula...
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    Is this a sensible appraoch?

    My house needs a number of new windows of varying sizes. Having read up about the subject the actual fitting doesn't look that difficult. However, since I don't have the kit ( scaffold, ladders etc ) to work at height and there is only one of me, I am considering buying the windows myself ...
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    Odd wiring and new light and switch.

    Dont have a digital camera, or even a camera phone ( thats a whole different discussion :) The live and neutral feeds are both single core + earth sheathed together ( double insulated? ). I went ahead and connected it up using chocolate block as I originally described and it all seems...
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    Odd wiring and new light and switch.

    I've checked the referance pages and they match what I expected to see. There are no cables missing that I can find. The previous wiring was in the loft above the bathroom and I have cleared all the insulation etc checking for other wires I might have missed. I'm starting to think it was a...
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    Odd wiring and new light and switch.

    I'm hoping someone can give me a few hints here. I'm trying to install a new bathroom light and pull switch having gutted the bathroom and knocked it though to the previously separate loo. Both room had a seperate light and pull switch. Having removed the old wiring and light fitings I am...
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