Re: Power socket on the lighting circuit?
"The walls were solid brick, so they had chiseled grooves up the wall, run the wire, then replastered over."
Our Edwardian UK house had the wiring added on the surface of the wall's plaster - then covered with wooden mouldings. The switches were mounted on a wooden moulding too.
In a 1970s house neighbours were having their kitchen refurbished. There was a room-length horizontal groove at waist height in the plaster - containing standard appliance 3 core cable. Presumably they were going to fill it with Polyfilla afterwards.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
