New Shower Circuit Connecting...

[BRADSPAU]

I am in the process of running a new uprated shower cable from the shower's DP switch back to the consumer unit. Due to the fact I am using 16mm cable (9.5kw shower, but the local CEF only had 16mm in stock, so let me have it for the price of 10mm) I cannot route it the way the original cable was routed.

I have re-routed the cable an alternative way but, sod's law, I am about a meter short of the consumer unit. So, the question is, can I put a 60 amp junction box in - then just buy the extra meter of cable I need to reach the CU.... any problems with doing it this way ?!

I really don't want to have to buy another full 9 meter length of cable

 

[plugwash]

Yes you can use a 60A junction box to join the cables provided its accessible.

 

[Adam_151]

(9.5kw shower, but the local CEF only had 16mm in stock, so let me have it for the price of 10mm)

How much did you pay?

Why do I get the feeling that CEF would have normally sold you 10mm² at a hugely excessive price, and in this case could sell you 16mm for the same price and still not do badly out of the deal...

 

[plugwash]

Why do I get the feeling that CEF would have normally sold you 10mm² at a hugely excessive price

Because thats how CEF work, thier base prices are very high and then if they think a customer won't accept them they give discount.