Approximately 3 months after losing the electricity supply to my workshop, today it was restored.

It's a long story, but the shortened version is that we had a fault on one of our household electricity circuits. So we called out an emergency electrician who failed to repair the problem properly (he spent most of his time on his cell phone talking to the head office, asking what he should be doing
) but decided he didn't like the look of the wiring to my workshop so he disconnected it. Yet the wiring had only been installed the previous year by a qualified electrician! Anyway, the emergency electrician then said he'd have to rewire it all at a cost of £1000 ($1900).
A couple of days afterwards, we found a poorly wired cable in one of the household's electric sockets, unplugged it, and the whole circuit then worked fine. The emergency electrician hadn't detected that fault. Even worse, the circuit is completely separate to the workshop circuit.
Since then we've been looking around for a reputable electrician to reconnect the workshop and today we found one. He said no re-wiring was neccessary and he reconnected us for a mere £30 ($57).
Tomorrow I'm going to re-introduce myself to some old friends who have been neglected for far too long; it's time to start making sawdust again
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Gill


A couple of days afterwards, we found a poorly wired cable in one of the household's electric sockets, unplugged it, and the whole circuit then worked fine. The emergency electrician hadn't detected that fault. Even worse, the circuit is completely separate to the workshop circuit.
Since then we've been looking around for a reputable electrician to reconnect the workshop and today we found one. He said no re-wiring was neccessary and he reconnected us for a mere £30 ($57).
Tomorrow I'm going to re-introduce myself to some old friends who have been neglected for far too long; it's time to start making sawdust again

Gill
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