Fitting a blank plate

[swiftwicks]

Hello,

I am a new home owner and need some advice on fitting a blank plate.

This was the switch for an electric shower which since has been removed so I would like to remove it and fit a blank plate in its place.

I would need to remove the switch, after shutting off the power obviously, and then do what?

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• swiftwicks
• 22 Feb 2015
• 1

Do I wire into a junction box, and in what order?


Any helpful suggestions are welcome

 

[deadshort]

Hi,what size of shower was it (kw) the switch seems to have been bye-passed ?

More detail and then we can advise best action to take.

Regards,

DS

 

[swiftwicks]

Hi,

I honestly don't know, it's long gone now, ripped out 4 months ago roughly. Is there any other way I can find out?

 

[flyingsparks]

I suspect it's a switch fuse spur on a ring for a pumped shower, and the plumber removed the flex from spur when removing the shower - DS.

 

[JohnW2]

I suspect it's a switch fuse spur on a ring for a pumped shower, and the plumber removed the flex from spur when removing the shower

Doesn't that look like the back of a DP switch, rather than an FCU?

Kind Regards, John

 

[deadshort]

If you check at your CU (fusebox) you should have a circuit marked shower ? You must make sure the supply to the switch is switched off before you do anything. It's the wiring leaving the switch i would want to disconect do you know if that has been made safe ?


Regards,

DS

 

[EFLImpudence]

Looks more like it's operating a fan.

 

[JohnW2]

Looks more like it's operating a fan.

One of the cables certainly appears to b 3C+E (although I'm not at all sure where the yellow is going!).

Kind Regards, John

 

[EFLImpudence]

Switched live?

 

[JohnW2]

Switched live?

Sure, if it's for a fan, it might well be - but what I'm not sure of is where (if anywhere) the yellow goes at the switch - it appears to take a pretty circuitous route and then ends up near an earth terminal!

Kind Regards, John

 

[swiftwicks]

It may well be for a fan, there was an extractor fan that was ripped out also! Apologies for the confusion, I'm not very savvy on this!

 

[xr4x4]

Doesn't matter..

Join the two reds together in a terminal block and the blue and black in another, then the earth wires together (yellow/green)

Then fit the blanking plate.

You will need to find out what the other yellow wire does, I suspect nothing, if so, put this in its own block too.

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Isolate circuit a consumer unit/fuse board. Test circuit at switch/isolator plate is dead and no other required equipment has been powered down.
If not then you can disconnect the circuit at the unit/board. Terminate cables safely, in case of accidental power up, and blank off.

It looks very much like a ex-fan set-up.
I would disconnect the three core cable and earth and terminate all cores together.
And terminate supply live, neutral and earth individually

 

[PrenticeBoyofDerry]

Switched live?

Sure, if it's for a fan, it might well be - but what I'm not sure of is where (if anywhere) the yellow goes at the switch - it appears to take a pretty circuitous route and then ends up near an earth terminal!

Kind Regards, John

I think yellow of 3&e is at load live, the other yellow is for neon indicator.

 

[JohnW2]

I think yellow of 3&e is at load live, the other yellow is for neon indicator.

Ah, yes - that's a possibility - I was trying to interpret it in terms of eveything yellow being the same conductor!

Kind Regards, John