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[MickBee]

SWITCH UNITS in Cloakroom Cupboard

• MickBee
• 2 Mar 2011
• 1

A professional electrician installed these connection units in the undersink cupboard in my downstairs cloakroom. [They isolate the handwash and the light+fan, and the switch shuts off the fan.]

It looked a neat job when it was done, 3 years ago - but can you spot the problem?

 

[ricicle]

You can't prise the fuse out on the SFCU.

 

[westie101]

They are fastened to the inside of the cupboard, so if it needs to be removed for, say, some plumbing work they will need to be disconnected.

 

[MrTinker]

You can't prise the fuse out on the SFCU.

No probs

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• MrTinker
• 2 Mar 2011
• 1

 

[Lectrician]

No longer get the shelf out?

 

[Monkeh]

I'm guessing the fuse but I've got any number of ways to get that out.

No longer get the shelf out?

That looks like a structural shelf to me.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Your missus can't fit the bleach bottles on the lower shelf and the upper shelf is reserved for hair products only?
Which could be a problem if shes not a peroxide blonde!

 

[sparkwright]

They are fastened to the inside of the cupboard, so if it needs to be removed for, say, some plumbing work they will need to be disconnected.

As westie says, they are fixed to a removable panel to give you access for maintenance.

 

[OwainDIYer]

They're not labelled, and the faceplate screws don't line up.

 

[sparkwright]

They are fastened to the inside of the cupboard, so if it needs to be removed for, say, some plumbing work they will need to be disconnected.

As westie says, they are fixed to a removable panel to give you access for maintenance.

On second thoughts, that cupboard back doesn't look particularly removable anyway.

 

[sparkwright]

Possibly they have become loose, if they are screwed into thin hardboard?

 

[westie101]

I was trying to suggest the whole cupboard would need moved for other work, the electrics are preventing that!

 

[MickBee]

You can't prise the fuse out on the SFCU.

No probs

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• MrTinker
• 2 Mar 2011
• 1

ricicle is right - and I don't recognise Mr Tinker's implement and wonder if it would work in the limited space.

Monkeh may have "any number of ways to get that out" but a layman shouldn't have to have specialist knowledge in order
to take out a fuse?

I'm thinking of replacing the SFCU (and the FCU below it) with MK units which have horizontal fuse holders held by screws.

By the way, the shelf does come out (if you take the doors off)

 

[ricicle]

ricicle is right

I than-yo

 

[sparkwright]

I don't think there is a requirement that the fuse must be removed using an average length screwdriver though, is there?

Something short could be used to remove the fuse.