Bruce wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

Bruce wrote:
"The Medway Handyman" wrote:

Easy enough to claim you have certain abilities


I make no such claim.

"I have plotted the line of a 22mm alkathene water pipe that was
buried to a greater depth - it varied from 450 to 600mm
approximately. It wasn't too difficult except where it crossed
other buried services.

My greatest successes were with buried live cables. They were
relatively easy to find."

Sounds like a claim to me.


It's a statement of fact, not a claim of any kind.

????? You are clearly claiming the ability to find water pipes & cables.
If you can do that under controlled conditions you are in for a load of
money. But you can't. That you chose to delude yourself doesn't provide
any evidence that dowsing works.


The only person making claims is you. From your armchair, you claim
dowsing doesn't work.

Why would I use a PC from an armchair? I don't actually have an armchair.

Meanwhile, every day around Britain, people working for national
agencies, local authorities, major PLCs such as water companies,
consultants and contractors along with many smaller firms are
routinely using dowsing as a technique to help them find buried
services. They use other techniques too, but dowsing is a reliable
and well established method that has been shown to work very well in
a wide range of conditions.

Dowsing has been subjected to scientific studies where the dowsers
themselves chose the conditions. They acheived results no better than
chance. It does not work reliably.

Meanwhile, you claim it doesn't work. From an armchair!

You make me laugh. ;-)

I'd rather make you think.


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Dave - The Medway Handyman
www.medwayhandyman.co.uk