A guest fitted a lamp with a spare 13A fuse pulled from an old kettle plug, and the lamp's cable started warming up within a week because the fuse never had a reason to blow. Here's why UK plugs have fuses at all, what 3A, 5A and 13A actually mean, and how to work out which one your appliance needs.
An electrician opened an old ceiling rose expecting brown and blue and found red and black instead, and stopped work rather than guess which conductor was live. Here's what changed in UK cable colours in 2004, why some properties have both systems, and what BS 7671 requires where they meet.
An electrician re-chased a wall because he wired an extension at the old habitual heights instead of Part M's accessible band, and building control refused sign-off. Here's the actual 450mm to 1200mm rule, what it applies to, and when a like-for-like replacement can skip it.
