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Old 6th Sep 2020, 10:22 pm   #145
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Default Re: Bodges

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Originally Posted by Rubberfingers View Post
In the 1990's, a work colleague bought a bungalow which had had a loft conversion. After some time, they discovered, in the back of a fitted wardrobe, a 13a socket with something plugged into it. He either flicked the switch off, or pulled the plug out, and all the lights in the loft conversion went out - the lighting circuit had just been terminated in a 13A plug and plugged in!
I've heard of all of the electrics (at least all the lighting & sockets) in a flat being wired into one plug.

It might have been on this site, it was an a big old house that have been split into flats.
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