>>Just the habit of connecting sockets along the same cable is enough. Then the plugs with those thin prongs - I had to replace almost all of them, as they were falling out. And the water heater cable's burnt ends... because they burned once already so someone added two 10cm pieces of wire to extend it... And then having to cut a hole in the ceiling to run the new cable to the fusebox... On one hand those hollow walls make this kind of fix easier than having to dig; on the other, wire covered with plaster just can't burn - things like that just don't happen here. (except my neighbor who used cheap chinese cable to bring the light to his pigpen, all burned up)
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>Plaster? LOL
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>In my yought we had to rewire a building. All old stuff out new stuff in. Using the trenches? of the old cables. We just shorten the cirutes and bridge the fuses, they overheat the plaster and all come out ot once. Boom,
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>You just have not to have burnable stuff around

Electrician's equivalent of dynamite fishing :). Excellent!