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That's exactly what I wanted to hear. It's an essential habit to get into.I'm going to start doing my own voltage testing at everything i work on as an absolute minimum.
We've all made early mistakes and had near misses. I once removed a fuse, tested a cable with a non-contact tester, satisfied myself it was dead and assumed I had the right circuit. After a short delay I cut into it, got a mini-jolt and blew the main fuse. It turned out to be an economy 7 storage heater feed not the sockets circuit I thought ti was and it went live at exactly the wrong moment! So many lessons in one incident there...