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It's not a wind up!! I just moved into the house. It has a fairly new consumer unit with RCDs.

Rightttt... I want to put a socket under my stairs. It current has a mains cable going to a light. I decided I don't want to spur off this. The socket I want to put in will be powering a tumble dryer. So thought I may aswell as see if I could get a spur from a socket rather than a light...

I ended up using gripfiller. Worked quite well...

It's a weird one... Def not ghosts. Haha

One plate outside the kitchen with 3 switches (1 for under cabinet lights, 1 for first half kitchen, 1 for 2nd half kitchen). There is another plate at my back door that has 2 switches (1 for outside light, 1 for 2nd half of spot lights)

In my kitchen, when u plug the microwave and press on on the socket, our kitchen ceiling spot lights flicker once. Same kitchen lights flicker again when we turn on the dining room light next door. The electrician can't explain it

Might try that, how long does it take to set?

Where did u get them?

Hi all! I have a few telephone cables tacked onto my hall wall. We have the plasterer coming on thurs to do the full hall. So I have started putting channels in to hide the cables. The problem is I can't attach the cables to the wall as its now on brick. How would I do this? Staples done work...

So hypothetically speaking, how do I cable it minus the bell? :-)

So how do I cable it minus the bell? Thanks for your help

I assume all I will have to do is the pin 2 and 5 to the wires and that's it? I havnt touched any other phone sockets.

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Thanks for the reply :-) Anyone else give a definitive answer? Would be much appreciated!

Hey all! Getting my new house plastered and decided to tidy up some cables on the wall. There is an old telephone bell which wasn't working that I now know is connected to the current telephone line! I know this cos when I cut the cable I lost a dialing tone!! So one cable going into the...

Thanks guys that makes sense to me.

How does it matter, give me specifics lol makes me understand it better u c.

(thanks for all your help by the way)

Even if I have the neutrals round the wrong way- having a reversed polarity- would this be bad? Sure, not ideal, but would it be unsafe?

Live in Gourock in Scotland. So I should connect the lives together (in a loop) like this: http://www.diy.com/diy/jsp/content/knowledge/images/how_to/fix_ceiling_light/3.gif ? I can check which one is which. I have a DVM about somewhere.