Recent content by danlightbulb

Yes Timeguard do a version without (TGBT4) and with (FBT4N).

Here's a picture. Socket is behind furniture unit (green blob), flex cable (green) runs up the wall, across the beam and to the IR heater mounted up high. I want to fit a boost timer (time guard tgbt4 or fbt4n) where the purple blob is.

So if I have the flex cable from the heater panel running down some surface mounted trunking on the wall, into a boost switch at chest height, out and then down to socket level where the flex just comes out of the trunking on a 13A plug, that will be ok? Will look a bit bodge? Heater I think is...

Bathroom not big enough. I could but still need an accessible switch for the heater panel. At moment it's flex from the socket, up the wall across the ceiling and down to the heater. The ceiling is high, 3.5m up.

Not good practice to wire a fixed panel heater through a boost timer into a 3 pin plug though is it.

Thanks. Shame, a single socket + single FCU sounds like a useful product. I'll look into enlarging the hole then. Or maybe I make a new hole alongside and do a spur off the double socket. Or a surface mount alongside actually would be easier but not the best looking.

Hi all. My girlfriends flat which she is about to rent out has a double plug socket in the bathroom. Obviously Im aware this is not allowed so needs to be removed. It used to be a flex outlet for a panel heater. She removed this, swapped it to a socket, and installed a new overhead infrared...

Hi. I have a standard double socket on the ring circuit. I want to have a fused connection unit with a flex outlet instead. These all seem to be 1 gang size. I was hoping to find something that allows me to convert a double socket into something else. Either a 2-gang FCU or a combined FCU and...

Its uncertain on the tariff actually. The website does state electric radiators indeed, but the T&C only state heat pump, and my partner did phone them to ask about it and they said no. We are going to do it online and see. Don't see what difference it makes to octopus whether we use a few...

Thanks for all the feedback and ideas. After consideration and research my proposal is as follows. 1. Install 3 of these heaters in the main living space and bedroom. They are LOT20 standard which means they have stat, timer/programmer and open window detection. That will satisfy the min...

I completely agree. It's a lovely building, lovely apartment, very unique. I can see why she bought it. But would have been a great opportunity for an efficient centralised heating system, or including solar on the vast roof space. Thing is, it's not even mandatory nowadays so what can you do...

Dont know exactly, 100 years or something. Why? The factory building was built approx 1870 and converted to apartments around 2007. It's grade II listed, three floors in total. There is a central courtyard and each apartment comes off this around the outside. The electricity meters are all...

Yes it could be done. But as I keep saying this flat is leasehold - we would probably need permission to run new cables because that would involve lifting the floorboards which counts as structural interference. I'm not saying this is impossible, it's whether it's economic given the minimal...

Having a battle like that is way out of scope and would take years probably. I've had a look around and there is one model - Dimplex QMRF range - which can be connected via a single electricity feed. The charge up timing is controlled via settings on the device. It appears that these units are...

Because storage heaters don't count as storage heaters (for the EPC) if they aren't on a separate off peak switched consumer unit controlled directly by the meter. Just switching to an off peak tariff adjusts billing yes, but does not give you an off peak activated circuit in the property. I...