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No additional switch elsewhere (or, if there is, it must have been in the ON position for the past 20 years!!) As far as I am aware the switch in the airing cupboard is all that is needed to switch on the immersion heater

And if it is on its own circuit is it still OK to hang a 5amp fused spur off it? From your explanation I am guessing that it is... I would be putting a relatively small load onto a circuit which is already designed to take a large load. In fact we hardly ever use the immersion heater -...

Thanks, but... Would you like to elaborate on your comment about the immersion heater? What might be wrong with the immersion heater being there (and by "there" do you mean in the airing cupboard or in the ring main?). It may not actually be in the ring main... all I know for sure is that...

I am planning to install a pump which will power two showers. The most convenient place to site the pump is in the airing cupboard. We already have a power supply in the airing cupboard to run the immersion heater. The immersion heater power supply is a switched, fused (13 amp) unit with a...