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Personally Marking Your Work.

Evenin, All, 


I sound like Dixon of Dock Green. I have just been rewiring an old holiday chalet built in the 1950s.    I often wonder just who wired it up originally and just what type of person he was. I know that the ceiling joists were hand drilled with a brace and bit.    Sometimes I find old empty cigarette packets under the floor of old houses, or old empty pipe tobacco packets.    I have started leaving my initials and a date in some of my new installations so that in say 50 years time somebody will find it and say, well this was installed by Z, isn't it old fashioned, but it lasted well.


Do you date anything or initial anything apart from light bulbs, (lamps) for others to find in the future?   



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    Chris Pearson:




    perspicacious:

    Rather than the vanity approach, I used to save the shiny low denomination coins picked up in change that were of that year, and discard them under the floorboards as I would have liked to have found some that a Victorian chap had done!




    Ah yes, but there wasn't anything much, if at all, under your average Victorian floorboards. Once they were down, they were down and I don't suppose that anybody expected them ever to be lifted.


     



    Slipped through the cracks - literally


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    Chris Pearson:




    perspicacious:

    Rather than the vanity approach, I used to save the shiny low denomination coins picked up in change that were of that year, and discard them under the floorboards as I would have liked to have found some that a Victorian chap had done!




    Ah yes, but there wasn't anything much, if at all, under your average Victorian floorboards. Once they were down, they were down and I don't suppose that anybody expected them ever to be lifted.


     



    Slipped through the cracks - literally


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