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    Found live wires - help with advice

    Well that's annoying. Product had some pretty good reviews (Screwfix). I did test it on a few known wires before I checked that one. What do you use as a professional for properly reliable checks?
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    Found live wires - help with advice

    That wall where the wires come out is a void under the staircase, at the side of my living room. I was going to open up the wall a little bit to check what's there before I screw any shelf brackets in, but I can't strip out the cabling completely (not confident doing it myself) until I can get...
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    Found live wires - help with advice

    I'm not entirely sure - when I had the new kitchen fitted last year they said the kitchen stuff needed to be on its own circuit and the consumer unit needed to be upgraded, so the old one was taken out and the new Hager one replaced it. One peculiarity of my flat is we have 2 electricity...
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    Found live wires - help with advice

    The problem: While renovating a cupboard I have found unconnected wires hidden behind a simple wooden panel. The thinner wires all have labels like ‘hallway’, 'window contact' and ‘PIR’ so it was an old alarm system that was either removed or never connected - there are no traces of any previous...
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