handyme said:
think you all need to be honest with yourselves should you be in the game, i work for a large disabled/elderly bathroom company fitting showers every week.
Then you should be a qualified electrician, registered as a competent person with one of the schemes to allow you to certify your work as being compliant with the building regulations.
What the **** kind of large company employs people to install showers in people's homes, as a commercial undertaking, who are so ignorant and incompetent that they need to come to a DIY advice site to find out how to connect it up, and who are incapable of answering the very important questions asked of them?
your all talking s**t, you can put a 40 mcb onto that board
Maybe you can. On some old boards you can't, and since you have not seen fit to answer the question about the CU incomer rating, despite being asked
three times, we only have your word for that.
then run it to the shower via a rcd.
Maybe you can. If you understood about discrimination you would know, or if you had seen fit to fully answer the question about the rating of the existing RCD we could tell you.
Unless your calling the sparks at work a lier and we are nic reg.
If your company is NICEIC registered then you must have at least one employee who isn't a complete knuckle-dragger. Why isn't he doing the electrical work, instead of someone who doesn't have a clue what he is doing, will not listen to what people tell him, and is possibly about to do something dangerous?
Thanks for all you help. A straight forward answer would have Sufficed, the question was HOW would you do it not why or where fore you should.
You have been given a straightforward answer on how to do it:
securespark said:
No, you should NOT put a 40A breaker on that board.
I would recommend changing the CU for a split-load arrangement, and to call a Part P certified electrician to do the work.
Given the age of your CU, the spark can check that the rest of your equipment is up to scratch, check the main bonding to gas and water mains pipes too and maybe even issue a PIR so you can assess the condition of the rest of your install.
but you have absolutely no intention of following that advice, do you?