Casdon
It more than likely is due to the overhead lines that your lights flicker CariadAgain. Ours do too, it’s one of the joys of country living. Every time anything touches the overhead line it flickers as it interrupts the power supply momentarily. It’s worst when it’s windy because debris flies around, particularly at this time of year.
What is confusing me is that I wondered/worried about the odd bit of flickering lights when I first moved here and put it down to "Because they've got those lines up in the air - rather than down under the ground as normal". But it has got noticeably worse recently and hence calling them in to investigate. After they'd done some amending on the pole itself it actually got noticeably worse - worse enough I was basically forced to go to bed earlier because of my house!! as the flickering had gone from intermittent to pretty constant (and I've not had that since moving here).
So right now they're doing further checks to see what the problem is and have left me a measuring gadget set up for a week to see what it registers and they changed a cut-out box thing beside my fusebox whilst they were on the subject (as that looked "ancient" to me - and yep...it's from the 1970s when the house was built). So I'm keeping my fingers crossed that will do the trick - as that would certainly be seriously wierd to have my life disrupted (ie going to bed when I don't intend to) because of things not working properly. I do have a temper and I know my limitations - and that would be a "step far too far" if the house did that and imposed early nights on me that I've not decided on. Things would be flying - ie because I'd throw them myself....I know myself well enough to know things would be flying....
Anyway - they've been in twice and I'm expecting them back twice more - and hopefully that will be that and "normal - as I'm used to". Fortunately too one of my neighbours is from a lot further away than I am (ie another country) and he's one of those super-intelligent/multi-capable people that's renovating his house himself (to proper standard and not "flog on for a quick profit" standard) and so I can pick his brains on all this if need be - ie if their further visits don't resolve this. I've encountered him getting thoroughly exasperated about the way things had been done (or, to be more accurate, not done) in his somewhat older house since he bought it/took one horrified good look at it - and started work ripping it apart (as his looked downright good on the surface of it after renovation - but it wasnt a "real renovation" and was one of those "houseflipper" "apparent renovations".)
So we're being moral support for each other for "having a fully functioning modern house" by the time we're through.
