Potential Disaster - Electric Shower

After removing our existing wooden bath panel on Sunday I found an old curtain had been scrunched up and placed behind the panel. Strange I thought as I had not seen this before.

Stranger still underneath the curtain to my horror was a live electric socket which powers the shower!!

Despite not being a plumber/sparky myself I realise this is potentially extremely dangerous.

The socket appears to run from downstairs and then under the bath up a wall to where the electric shower is currently housed.

Can anyone advise of the safest and quickest way of repairing this?

Thanks for your time.

I do not know about quick, but the powershower switch needs to outside the bathroom, so have a look where you can fit that, do away with the socket, make it hard wired in to a FUSED SPUR to the powershower BEST with an RCD FUSED spur to be precize

Was the shower connected via a standard 13 amp plug? Is the cable standard 2.5mm twin and earth?

If its an 8 kw shower, you are likely to need 6mm twin and earth. Anything larger needs 10mm.

You need a sparkie.

Sounds almost as frightening as when I discovered that my brother's shower wasn't earthed! I had used it many times before.

robfranlong said:

Can anyone advise of the safest and quickest way of repairing this?

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Easy answer. With that kind of cowboy work, you need to get a periodic inspection done by a qualified electrician.