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Hi, The oven isn't heating to any temp at all, no matter what I set it at it only comes on at the lowest setting. Any ideas ? It's details are as follows. AF No A054 Serial No 4090038 CKG 21532 The father inlaw cleaned it at the weekend, could he have knocked something ??

By main fuse I meant the main fuse box, I didn't know about the service fuse. Got my technical info a bit wrong there. I have been worried about other wiring, Like I said there's a fuse for the shed and there's nothing in there that works, there's also 2 sockets in the loft which I though...

It's not even covered by the service fuse. If I switch off the main fuse the shower still gets power, I have to switch off the box with the MCB in it to kill power to the shower. So in short the shower is wired in before any of the fuses. I don't know why it is and I'm not happy about...

Hi all, I doesn't actually appear to be heating up, I think it must have just been the heat of my hand checking it every minute or so. Looks like it's fine now although I have noticed that it's 6mm cable coming into the bottom of the box with the breaker in it, although 6mm should be fine...

I'm going to get a friend who's a sparky to have a look behind the box as I think there must be a loose connection behind it as everything else seems ok.

hmm, small victory, the new bit arrived and the shower run for 15mins without tripping but the mcb did get warm, is this normal ?? I think not and I'm suspecting maybe a loose connection somewhere ?

and isn't this just newer stuff different box ?? http://www.screwfix.com/prods/36269/?source=aw&cm_mmc=AffiliateWindow-_-DeepLink-_-Na-_-Na I mean I'm not going to use the 65a bit am i ? The 45a bit just says mcb, which is what i have already???

Isn't my empty box just an empty box with a 45a mcb in it ?? That one looks just like a switch to me ?

Excuse me being stupid but that just looks like a big on/off switch to me. I take it I have to fit the protection afterwards ?

I'm happy with that, what should I replace it with ? I take it a combined RCD and mcb unit ? Any recommendations ?

Here's the pictures of it. So you think it may be the wires under the box, only issue with that is the bottom is live with no way of switching it off, if the new mcb doesn't work the I'll remove the cover and have a look, if there's sign of damage I'll get my friendly sparky to fix...

my shower mess

Stupid question maybe but would a change in water pressure cause this, the water seemed to be coming out twice as fast as before and that was even when it was running hot. The shower does work for about 5mins and then the MCB trips off you see. Also it works fine if I put it on economy...

My mates a sparky but sods law he's away until next Wednesday, a day before the future in laws arrive...

I'll do that when I get home from work. Cheers,

Hi, I should have said the shower is rated 8.5Kw The box itself has nothing written on it so I was thinking it just holds the MCB itself but I'll check tonight and have a look. It really does look like the switch on the box just isolates the power to the circuit. The actual power to...

Hi all, I've been living in my new house now for about a year and the shower tripped out the other morning for no apparent reason while the other half was in it. My first thought was that she'd stopped the flow of water somehow but it appears she hasn't as it keeps tripping if on full...