Cecile

Our house has 120mm gutters that clearly aren't doing their job. Every time we have a big downpour, they overflow and dump water onto the driveway because the carport roof is a flyover. A few years ago we added three more downpipes, which help, and we had the gutters vacuumed out last July. I did notice this evening that the where the worst of the overflow is, there's one of those broom-like things in the gutter covering the downpipe pop, so that might be creating some of the problem. My...

This is an old extension lead, I've been using it for about 20 years. We needed to check out a tumble dryer to see if something similar was worth purchasing for our own use. I found the plug in this condition when I went out to check on the contents. What is the most usual cause of overheating like this> How long should an extension lead last? It wasn't sold as a caravan lead, just as a heavy duty 10A but it uses the same flex in 1.5MM<2 and I did wire it myself back when we were allowed do...