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Yup, I think I'll be turning off Facebook for the next week, lest I learn something from all the armchair terrorism experts that want to let me know how it should be done....

House is only ten years old, so thankfully they are well aware of the cost. Makes sense, as tiled wall in utility room so easier to change for USB sockets than actually add more sockets...

It's funny no matter how much money saving websites and 'celebs' bang on about the retention dept, none of them ever seem to give a flying toss and make silly offers like 5% off, which doesn't touch the best competing renewal. I'm hoping that come renewal time my 'old fashioned broker' might...

Apple aside it's not even as if genuine chargers are that dear... But I suppose why would Joe Public know any different 'they must all come from the same factory'. Still, at least the almost weekly recall of laptop chargers seems to have ended! I guess this is due in part to laptops using less...

Here's hoping the MK ones are decent. I have been asked to fit some... not in a bathroom :)

I guess without access to all the official reports (mind you, you'd be amazed at how much inaccuracy there is in those, speaking as someone that has had to give evidence at Coroners, albeit not as an 'interested party') we will never fully know. I have to agree I've never liked the look of...

Same here recently renewed, used old fashioned real world broker, saved a fortune on previously good value Direct Line policy that got silly on renewal.

There is something about this story that doesn't add up. I know the media will be desperate to jump on the juicy bits and not the boring facts. I know an RCD wouldn't protect from a transformer, but 5vdc shouldn't kill, so was the shock from a charger or the flying lead extension itself? Also...

Ah, yes if you get a hh5 the first thing you should do is disable the 'web connection wizard' (splash screen devices are shown on first connect) and most importantly unbundle the merged 2.4 and 5 ghz networks, I.e. Not have a dual band network on same ssid, rename the 5 ghz network with a '-5'...

Apparently the latest home hub (it's not called a home hub anymore) is actually quite good in genuine unbiased trials. Some older home hubs looked identical but came in A and B versions, and were made by completely different manufacturers,  one decent and quite high end (Siemens Gigaset, as...

Change to a fixed channel for one, ideally 13 as most 'auto settings' won't dish it out so basically a channel just for yourself.  However, won't work for any US visitors. Or Raspberry pi 3's without latest updates or manual Gb En wifi config. Also I seem to recall macs hate the 'auto...

20 minutes into todays 'half the upstairs lights aren't working since I came home from holiday' customer suddenly remembers he attempted to change the bathroom pullcord just before he went away. Problem found twenty seconds later...

I only read it on another forum, apparently someone booked onto a resit at a college and wasn't asked for proof of a previous failure, could have just been a one off or an admin slipup. Or made up :)

From what I can gather, exam only is technically not allowed, someone please correct me if I'm wrong, in that C+G ''forbid'' it being marketed without some study over a certain amount of hours. Other have seemingly booked ''resits'' and not been challenged. On another thread there was a co...

I, personally, always thought that - we had 4 smaller chippies on the books all with all-electric ranges - the same model. Various inspectors had differing views, the owner of the firm was never 100% convinced by me, you can never bloody win though can you. Anyway, long part of history...

Certainly when I owned a narrowboat, I went through 2 quality, remotely switched contactors in ten years (made for low voltage, high current marine use in New Zealand not China) which I can only assume were due to arcing, despite the fact they would only ever have been separated at low-load, i.e...

Oh probably, a bit like (years ago admittedly) the plumber who was doing my alarm customers rewire that fitted a 100ma RCD because 'the trade counter had an offer on, and that's got to be better than a 30, hasn't it?'. I don't know why, but it reminds me (if you've ever seen one, you'll know...

I'd imagine still not an issue unless regularly switched on-load.

As a functional isolator, to be used 'off load' (and not knowing what the load is, though suspect Barry Boys style car hifi) I have seen far worse. However, if it was mine, I would have a terminal mounted megafuse and a hell of a lot more downstream overload protection myself...

'SuperSparks' sounds like the in-house brand of 99p 13A sockets at B+M bargains...