My kitchen keeps going bang.

[Polo]

Is he not using one of them glowey near live cable thingies?

There may be a more technical name for the device.

[MCN]

[thx1138]

Turned out to be the wiring for an old water heater had been left in place, and the second electricain (the first one couldn't solve it) isolated it and disconnected it.

No bangs since, anyway

[Freddyfruitba...]

[thx1138]

Something to do with us having an old fashioned fuse board thing, with fuse wires, and not a modern circuit board thing, and erm 60 amps or something, so it wasn't enough to trip the fuse, I think he said, or blow the fuse ?

[Islander]

[MCN]

Do you have that Rayon Woven insulation on your ring main behind Path and Plaster?

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[Polo]

[Islander]

[mentalboy]

[MCN]

[stinkwheel]

Cannae be worse than the lead sheathed cable my mate found in his house recently. The lead is the earth.
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[Islander]

[MCN]

[Islander]

[MCN]

Alladin paraffin lamps were the thing.

I remember driving past little villages in west Africa 1995. The daily cycle for those places was Sun Up everyone out the mud hut. (raafia palm plastered with.mud and banana plant and raafia palm roofs)
Sun down. Paraffin lamps for about an hour then paraffin lamps out and sleep/phuque/die of malaria or woteva.
They are more than likely still living that way.

The mine I worked on had power brought in from VRA. Volta River Authority (Big Hydro project on the Volta River. Built to power an alumina smelter. The Cuntry got some of that power too.)

The 'town' the mine was named after got power from the grid 1997. It was diesel generators before then.

The people know no different. A 2 D-Cell torch was a valued possession.
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[Islander]

[thx1138]

Helped that it was summer, but didn't make a whole lot of difference the power being off. Power banks in the phone, wind up radio dusted off, camping stove out of loft, and bicycle lights strung up with cable ties.

[stinkwheel]

My ex council house had electricity put in in 1951. The first houses in the village to get mains electricity. Pretty sure some of the original wiring is still there (red and blue?).

A local farmer remembers having a man come round with a horse and cart delivering charged up accumulators (giant glass capacitors) once a week to run their milking machine.
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“Rule one: Always stick around for one more drink. That's when things happen. That's when you find out everything you want to know.”
I did the 2010 Round Britain Rally on my 350 Bullet. 89 landmarks, 3 months, 9,500 miles.

[mentalboy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue7wM0QC5LE
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Make mine a Corona.

[MCN]

[Islander]

[Ribenapigeon]

Very disappointing end to the mystery. I was hoping a for something more exciting like a robot from the future trying to beam in or at least a common household poltergeist

[thx1138]

[Tarmacsurfer]