Date   : Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:56:28 +0100
From   : jgh@... (Jonathan Graham Harston)
Subject: Leccy @ Acorn World '09

Rob wrote:
> Turned out that the socket had been wired into the cooker circuit (on
 
Rewiring my brother's ex-council house about ten years ago: I
pulled the fuse for the downstairs lights. The stair lights went
out, so I started working on them, removing the switches and roses.
 
Bang!
 
It turned out some previous occupant had wired the stairs lights
into both the upstairs and downstairs lighting circuit.
 
I can imagine the logic. Hmmm. I want these two switches to control
these two existing lights. I know, I need to connect the switches
together like this...
 
When rewiring my flat a few years ago I discovered that the socket
on the landing was wired into the supply to the hot water switch
just above it.
 
> That house was a nightmare of bad DIY electrics ... there was a pair
 
In rewiring the flat, I doubled the number of power outlets, but
ended up pulling out twice as much cable from under the floors as I
put back in again.
 
> access to celler.  In which were the gas and electric meters and
> isolation switches for all three flats, plus an extra meter for the
 
Must type up my experiences of trying to get YorksElec to
understand that none of the tenants in the flats had any access to
the cellar next door where YorksElec insisted the meters should go.
 
> > Legal: I wonder what the legal situation is if you, an unlicenced and
 
wossa "unlicensed" electrician? is this some French thing? In the
UK anybody allowed do electrical work, in the same way that anybody
is allowed to mow a lawn or wash a car. You're just bound by
standard contractual competancy and liability laws.
 
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In 1939 $50 of groceries would fill three station wagons. Today I
can lift $50 of groceries with one hand. I must have got stronger.