Rightho. What it is, and I've mentioned this on here before, is that when Mrs AB uses her

hair dryer in a particular plug socket upstairs, one of the pins on the plug is always really hot afterwards. Was a bit worrying.

Anyhoo, I'm redecorating atm, and replaced that socket at the weekend. When I removed the old socket it appeared that the Live and Neutral feeds were wired up to the wrong connections - at least according to the wiring diagram of the new socket, and the colour of the wires - the reds were where the blacks should have been and vice-versa.

So I wired the new socket up according to what the wiring diagram was telling me (that is, the opposite way round to the old socket), and since then the pins on her hair dryer's plug aren't heating up at all after using it.

So my question is, would the heating up have been caused by the s**t backwards wiring in the old socket, or some other fault with the old socket? Because if it's some other fault, have I done wrong by wiring up the new socket backwards as compared with the old one?

Posted By: Arizona Bay, Nov 24, 14:25:15