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A question I'm sure the experienced electricians will have heard a zillion times... how do you (inexpensively) identify the cause of nuisance RCD tripping? I've spent the last few hours reading all over the 'net for answers and my head is now buzzing. As briefly as possible, I know pretty...

I'm in a relatively newly built flat (less than a year old) and I've had quite a few lightbulbs blow in that time. I actually started a thread about it a few months ago which led me to getting Scottish Power to fix an over-supply problem (I was measuring the incoming supply using my UPS and it...

Hoping someone can help... amongst several other problems I'm having in my flat (which was built only a year ago) is that I've gone through 11 lightbulbs since I moved in 6 months ago; they blow when the lights are turned on. Obviously not every time a light is switched on, but they've never...

Just looking for some advice... I had a plumber fit a new bathroom suite in my flat recently and he broke off the entire cast iron branch/tee that connected the bath to the shared waste stack (also cast iron). Skipping the argument of whether, in his words, it just came off in his hands or...