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Sorry - I meant professional where it says practical. I will find out who can lend me a voltmeter, and then look up how to do some tests perhaps.

 Which would be exactly my thoughts, if i had any positive evidence that things were wrong. In answer to above my "level of skill" is that I'm not stupid and can probably source a voltmeter, but am not formally electrically trained/qualified. Basically I could follow instructions but don't know...

Nope not as far as any of the 5 of us have noticed. The only thing I would say is that old style filament bulbs don't seem to last very long e.g. I put a new one in a desk lamp 2 weeks ago and it didn't last a week - a couple of larger ceiling bulbs have failed despite being replaced during our...

Thanks for the quick reply - yes poor manufacture/bad luck was my strongest theory it's just that many of these things have been used in all sorts of different locations in the past without problem, were all made at different times, but failed together (i.e. within weeks, not simultaneously)...

Hi all, Hope you are well. I found this forum on google and thought some of you might be good enough to advise me as to what might be going on here. The back story is that me and my housemates moved into new rental accomodation last august and since then: 2x toasters 1x kettle 1x laptop...