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staffordjas

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Decided to splash out on some slabs to replace my homemade crazy paving (a mixture of old housebricks, stones, broken bits of slabs, and anything else 'steppable' on, and joined together with mud ....quite artistic though for me , and done the job providing a home for the wheelie bins for years!) The very helpful B&Q assistant called James was a star making the purchase less stressful than I was expecting . Can't wait to start working on my new wonky little patio :)
 
age'd parent

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Mending the wiring in my shed as it blew while I was distilling some "stuff",
still it lasted 30 odd years so I cant complain, I really should have made a
diagram of how it was wired up, It took half an hr to trace it. If the 21 sockets:lorks:
last another 30 years that'll do for me.
Of course a hot plate, a fan heater, a soldering iron, a hot melt gun
and a battery charger on at the same time does not help when you
have a dodgy, man shed, wiring set up.:o
 
tek-monkey

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Found a live wire in the ceiling*, traced it back to a 32 amp fuse that appears to serve no other purpose.

* 2 wires hanging out of the ceiling, one was from the light switch the other was possibly to run some form of ceiling cooker?
 
staffordjas

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Glad I called on my old school motto 'Persevere' to keep me going whilst struggling to dig some of the garden up and lay some slabs, as well as hubby to lend his weight stomping up and down on them as a slab flattener. Now all done and proud of my efforts :) .
 
tek-monkey

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Well, you wouldn't want to eat a raw ceiling would you.
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If it meant no more being petrified of every electrical outlet in the building I might! No joke, I have a healthy regard for electricity and I've worked on loads of houses but I am seriously scared of this building. I guess we were spoiled in the last place, Mark made it safe before we went in, this place is like a weird Japanese game show. Lets see who survives putting in a new light fitting!
 
Cue

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tek-monkey said:
If it meant no more being petrified of every electrical outlet in the building I might! No joke, I have a healthy regard for electricity and I've worked on loads of houses but I am seriously scared of this building. I guess we were spoiled in the last place, Mark made it safe before we went in, this place is like a weird Japanese game show. Lets see who survives putting in a new light fitting!
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Does it not have a consumer unit with RCDs/RCBOs?

Where is this, out of curiosity? Perhaps you’ve said before but I missed it.

age'd parent said:
Mending the wiring in my shed as it blew while I was distilling some "stuff",
still it lasted 30 odd years so I cant complain, I really should have made a
diagram of how it was wired up, It took half an hr to trace it. If the 21 sockets:lorks:
last another 30 years that'll do for me.
Of course a hot plate, a fan heater, a soldering iron, a hot melt gun
and a battery charger on at the same time does not help when you
have a dodgy, man shed, wiring set up.:o
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How big is your shed to have 21 sockets!?
 
Noah

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Running a beer festival in a marquee on an area of common. Power supply available from the garden of an adjacent pub, used for concerts and all sorts of other events. Tame electrician not happy for some reason so traced the supply back into the pub. Fed from an ordinary plug in a 13 amp socket, top off the plug and a sawn off section of six inch nail replacing the fuse - and evidence of blown smaller diameter nails. Hired generator and had a quick word with the brewery who owned the pub.
 
tek-monkey

tek-monkey

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Cue said:
Does it not have a consumer unit with RCDs/RCBOs?

Where is this, out of curiosity? Perhaps you’ve said before but I missed it.
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Bacolite fuse box, real wire that needs replacing. Upstairs has trip switches but other than the weird 30a in the ceiling that is just controlling the upstairs on one side.

After some advice from someone that wires up train tracks I'm seeking professional advice, even though it could condemn the building and negate a weeks work and several hundred quid in materials. Never been this wary of electrics in my life!
 
age'd parent

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How big is your shed to have 21 sockets!?

Not that big, 6 x 18 but it did have a darkroom, that developed into a brewery,
that developed into a place to boil "stuff", and a part that I used to build
electronic stuff, that needed a few sockets for carpentry, that needed a
welding socket for an arc welder, that needed a heated cupboard for
wine brewing, that needed 5 sockets for heated pads, that need sockets
to charge the drill batteries...

And it was always easier to add sockets that move them, so.... :embarrass:.

Oh and I counted them again... 23 :embarrass:
 
Thehooperman

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age'd parent said:
How big is your shed to have 21 sockets!?

Not that big, 6 x 18 but it did have a darkroom, that developed into a brewery,
that developed into a place to boil "stuff", and a part that I used to build
electronic stuff, that needed a few sockets for carpentry, that needed a
welding socket for an arc welder, that needed a heated cupboard for
wine brewing, that needed 5 sockets for heated pads, that need sockets
to charge the drill batteries...
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So that was your Saturday sorted, what about the rest of the weekend? :)
 
staffordjas

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Did a bit of snowy tidying up of the back garden. Task included returning next doors fag ends back over the fence that her moron family visitors had kindly slung over onto my patio :mad:
 
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Cue

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tek-monkey said:
Bacolite fuse box, real wire that needs replacing. Upstairs has trip switches but other than the weird 30a in the ceiling that is just controlling the upstairs on one side.

After some advice from someone that wires up train tracks I'm seeking professional advice, even though it could condemn the building and negate a weeks work and several hundred quid in materials. Never been this wary of electrics in my life!
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It bothers me that it’s legal to let a property with such out-of-date electrics. Only takes one customer accident...

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Oh and I counted them again... 23 :embarrass:
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Have you considered using it for hydroponics? I hear there’s a few plant species that can net a tidy profit.
 
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