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Sorry for the confusion - thanks that's very helpful. Yes so I'd expect a 30A to blow but not a 40A - Hopefully the electrician can shed some light...

Thanks - yes you're right 30A, well technically 30A + (like the 1m + social distancing equivalent) + being the length of fuse wire added alongside the fuse in the housing :s

Thanks John - I hope that is the case. Although I'm wondering if the fact that it blew a few fuses on the old board suggests something else. I just remembered that when we first moved in (not meaning to drip feed info) the shower fuse had been 'supplemented' with some fuse wire - so perhaps the...

Yes - combi boiler.

The other complication is that the stop cock doesn't stop the water completely (I remembered this as I got soaked changing a washing machine this week) so we will need a plumber out anyway. It is a coincidence that 2 appliances are tripping the power - but it was an old washing machine and the...

When you say it like that... I guess the issue might be that we decide to go with running a shower straight off the boiler if that's a viable option in which case we'd get a plumber - rather than get a replacement electric shower. The other issue I've found when I was replacing the washing...

Thank you - very helpful

Sorry no the new switch was fitted about 3 months ago - I had to get a second electrician a week after the first one as it only worked for a few days - I asked the 2nd to replace the switch but he said it just needed reinstalled. We could get him back around to change the switch but I suspect...

The first electrician replaced the switch - badly the second electrician told me but I don't know what that means. The second electrician just reinstalled the same one - so only a week old. So you reckon new shower + new switch? One of the electricians commented that the old switch (which had...

Thanks very much for your detailed answer. Does that still leave the shower itself potentially causing the issue? Or could the pull cord be causing problems? In the past it's got stuck when pulling it and this has caused the fuse (old DB) to blow even without switching the shower on. I'm...

My understanding is the MCB is the individual one with 'Shower' written under it - as long as that's correct it's the MCB that's tripping. 40A I think - pic to clarify: https://photos.app.goo.gl/rgiEn1t6MjBPNden7

Hi, We had a shower blowing the fuse regularly in our old fuse box with the cartridge fuses. We ended up, on the advice of a highly recommended electrician, changing to a new distribution board. I asked about the shower on the old cable and he said although he would use a larger cable if he was...

1950's ex-council house we bought a couple of years ago. While most of the walls are built with what looks like lime mortar, some of them look to have been repointed with cement. But looking closer it looks like, rather than scrape out the old mortar, a very thin layer of cement has been used...

Had a light fitting that flickered - the switch seemed like it didn't click properly so had an electrician change switch and fitting - no problem for a while. This is a fitting with a switch downstairs and upstairs and occasionally it will not switch on using the upstairs switch, I'll go...

Thanks for this. I'm fairly sure that is the flashing rather than the upstand but I'll have another check.

This might be an obvious one... We're having some water leak through a flat roof - it's joined to the house but the water is going into a shed. We can have lots of rain which sits on the roof for days and this doesn't cause a leak but it seems like if the rain is in a particular direction this...

Took your advice: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CqzFeWmjTsDvVo579

That's rubbish! We have this hoover and very disappointed with almost every aspect of it. I got our Dyson DC25 out last week and the difference in how well it cleaned was incredible. Bad points - 1yr old and when using boost function we're lucky if the battery lasts much more than 5 minutes...

Electrician called round today, one that came highly recommended by a plumber who has done some really good work for us - he pointed out that the wires have not just heated up but there are signs of a fire in the box. Going to fit a new DB and new 10mm earth and take it from there. I know a...

Thanks - so you just found plywood the correct depth and cut it/had it cut to the correct width?