Electric socket sparking

DaftyDuck

If it's your only smoke alarm, it's certainly not money down the drain, and your sparking plug might have done you a favour.

When I move house, my cleaning mission on first day has bucket of cloths, bleach, gloves, vacuum cleaner, and several battery smoke alarms.... even if there are a couple (of possibly old and manky ones) there. They go up in the first hour or two.

One on each floor, one outside main bedroom. Essential items.

moneyistooshorttomention

Well I guess that's one advantage of this house being only a small bungalow - ie one smoke alarm in the hallway and it should cover all bases (as it will be just outside 4 out of the 5 rooms anyway - and not forever away from the 5th one).

GDB2222

My son's life was saved by our smoke alarm.

moneyistooshorttomention

Final result (well the "5 minutes to midnight" result anyway).

I was put in contact with a "hero" via that Heroes scheme and he's checked out that power point for me and said "Not a problem with that - it's your fire. Bin it".

I'm now having him checking his way through this house. It's proving more of a hassle (and expense:eek:) than either he or I had envisaged. Turns out my rewired house hasnt been rewired at all - there's loads of new wires and there are also some original wires that never got replaced:mad: and are coming near the end of their lifespan. Turns out one of my sockets wasnt earthed and it was just as well I'd never tried to run a high power user (like an electric fire) from it or I might have been in for a shock:mad:.

Anyway - we're in process of sorting it and I have in mind once this is over (if I've still got any money left:eek::mad:) to check it out for a different type of tradesperson I need for something else.

So thanks to the person who told me about this scheme.