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I'm boarding my loft, raising the floor. As the floor is going over an old disused aerial booster, I disconnected it first. I had assumed it was somehow spliced into the lighting circuit, but through trial & error at the breaker box I found it was actually using the "downstairs sockets"...

Would it be ok (read: safe) to bypass a light switch by simply joining the live & switched-live wires behind a switch? Edit: Removed irrelevant information

I have this beam sitting across some of the joists in my loft. There are 3 or 4 just like this, all sitting perpendicular to the joists, on top of them. They are nailed down to the joists, but as far as I can tell serve no particular purpose. This one even wobbles slightly if I grab it and...

I recently bought my first house (hence this being my first post) and have started to tackle the first room, the lounge. The whole house has been recently painted by the previous owner, but the visible border under the paint, plus a few other things made me want to redecorate. The original...