Well Alan,
The house is re-wired and I'm happy.
It took me a day and a half.
Hardest part was the lighting circuits (as they always are).
First re-wire I've done in a while and with the way my knees feel at the moment, It'll be the last in a while too.
I also ran a new Main earth lead as well, I went to test the wiring when I finished and found out that the wire at the switchboard and the wire at the Earth stake, were two different bits of wire.
At that stage of the game, I'd lost my patience and wasn't going to muck around tracing it.
I did however pull the old wire at the stake and about 3-4 metres came out of the wall.
Oh well, I was very well fed though!.
{Edit:
Alan,
Speaking of hot water, I remember when I was doing my time, there was a local plumber here in town that got into a whole heap of (no, I'm going to use that pun
) trouble after he drained a Hot water cylinder onto the customers newly laid Ready-turf lawn, which promptly killed a big patch of it.
You'd think a plumber would know better}
[This message has been edited by Trumpy (edited 08-12-2005).]