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Sparkyboy, if you were to get rid of the excess to the forum, I wonder if Welsh Wizard's avatar needle would swap sides? Is this in the plan Welsh Wizard?

Today I will be mostly doing........ VAT return. ........ I really should stop reading through the Forum and do the *&@@~# thing!

If you choose to pass savings on to clients, you need to be careful which clients. Some will appreciate the saving, others will view you as a mug and for ever after they will EXPECT reductions of some sort. Word may well get around that you are good at cost cutting. It's a slippery slope...

I agree with all of you about the negative reporting and its consequences - a particularly destructive form of self-fulfilling prophesy. Sadly the news media thrives on the dissemination of bad news. The collapse of a business will receive far more column-inches of paper or air-time than the...

PC World lost my business several years ago after I shelled out

Abba "Chiquitita" could be "Chicken tikka"

Oh yes.........! In The Eurythmics "There must be an angel", I'm convinced that Annie Lennox sings: "I'm grown and overblown with fleas" I've just had a look at the video on YouTube and a careful listen, and still think Annie has a flea problem! Pyro.

Nice one! That's a really good response and one to be filed away for future use. As I read through he thread, the predominant thought was that if the customer can go to all the trouble of setting up a kitchen shop, he must have had a plan that was more solid than what he is making out. I hate...

How about a DP isolator such as the MK K5105WHI for starters? http://www.mkelectric.co.uk/products/item.asp?itemid=3077&rangeid=1030 It's rated at 32A. Originally I thought of their 20A DP isolator, K5403WHI: http://www.mkelectric.co.uk/products/item.asp?itemid=3073&rangeid=1030...

For your check list, KME: 1. Wiring installation method (in walls/solid floors): conduit, buried direct. 2. Cable type: PVC, VIR, pyro. 3. Depth of switch & socket boxes. 4. Add concrete to the list of your point 8 "what are walls made of?". 5. Type of loft insulation (and will...

Re: lightning strikes: Rural West Yorkshire July/August 2006. If anyone on the forum has had the pleasure (or otherwise) of being in southern Africa in the rainy season you will know the meaning of the term "thunderstorm". There was such a storm in West Yorkshire / Lancashire one Sunday...

Some of the sharp-practice "advertisers" phone up requesting payment on an advertising order that has been placed. Ask for the purchase order number, date of issue and the buyer's name. This tends to flummox the thieving bar stewards. Alternatively, register with TPS.

Was that a tattoo or a tw**too in story 7?

Consider joining the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) - it's a very helpful organisation. Look carefully at business bank accounts. Some will charge for depositing, withdrawing, direct-debits, and every other little thing that they can..... consider the logos that the banks use and draw...

Danny, here's a good head-scratcher of a thread for a combination of options and potential hassles that have good "time vacuum" potential: http://www.talk.electricianforum.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1650 Cheers, The copper-sheathed cable.

Ey-up, Danny. Are you also a Northern Man? There are whole lot of points to consider on every job. Taking a brief look at a domestic, the time for pure electrical work may be "x" days, but are you also having to....... move client's furniture, make-good any decorations, replace special...

As noted, most banks charge businesses. Two that do not charge businesses are Abbey and Co-Op. I have had an Abbey business account since 2001, always in credit, and no problems at all with/from the bank. Having recently joined the Federation of Small Businesses, the Co-Op bank was recommended...

The warning notice should have been "danger for voles"..... then the rodent may have read it and taken notice.

Definitely DO NOT USE T N T X( X( I recently had a job where goods were being shipped in a flight-case to-and-fro between my premises and a client's premises. On one shipment from the client, the wrong size and weight were entered - seriously wrong, as in twice the size and twice the...

What's the background on the 3rd photo - the inside of the existing box? There are 6 wires at the top of the box and 3 wires at the bottom of the box. Curious, am I. Pyro.