Fuse allocation recommendations for CU in a bungalow
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If you want underfloor heating, install the variety with pipes full of hot water.
I get on with UFH well and wouldn't now tile a floor without putting an element in and purely used for comfort and not to provide primary heating.
the mats are pence on ebay and in the size of the bungalow will be no more than 2m2 per room
Each to their own
the mats are pence on ebay and in the size of the bungalow will be no more than 2m2 per room
Each to their own
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I can only speak for myself, but our freezers always appear to be 'stuffed with food', and we don't take any steps to change that when we go on holiday.
Other than that, I totally agree with what you say. FWIW, in the 45+ years during which we have had freezers (for well over 30 years of which they will have been RCD protected), we've never lost any food as a result of failure of the electricity supply to a freezer (or failure of a freezer). As one would expect (statistically speaking) usually to be the case, the very few cases when there have been failures (of freezer or its electricity supply) have occurred when we have not been on holiday, and have been detected quickly enough to avoid any loss of food.
Kind Regards, John
I only asked about freeze 'coz you always get a freeze sticker in the CU box
Like you say, other than a holiday, if an RCD tripped because a bulb blew (I know they shouldn't but sometimes they do) as you went to bed for eg, then 8 hours with the freezer door shut should be salvagable
OK freezer WILL be ok kitchen ring
Like you say, other than a holiday, if an RCD tripped because a bulb blew (I know they shouldn't but sometimes they do) as you went to bed for eg, then 8 hours with the freezer door shut should be salvagable
OK freezer WILL be ok kitchen ring
I think you'll find that, if the door remains shut, the food in an average freezer would usually survive (in a 'safe' state) for at least 48 hours, particularly if it were pretty full.
Kind Regards, John
If a lighting fault affected the freezer, someone must have installed the wrong kind of consumer unit.
I can assure you that it is possible for a lamp blowing to trip an RCD. I've witnessed it in my own house on one occasion.
Are you suggesting that it should have been an all-RCBO CU and/or that the frezeer should have had its own RCBO (or no RCD protection)? With the pretty ubiqitous "dual-RCD" CU, it would surely be common (probably 'the norm') for 'upstairs lights' and a 'downstairs freezer" to be protected by the same RCD?
Kind Regards, John
All RCBO, freezer on a socket circuit with other appliances.
Therefore no way a lighting fault could affect the freezer or anything else other than the lighting.
Dual RCD consumer units are junk. and only exist for the purpose of saving a small amount of money at the time of installation.
Therefore no way a lighting fault could affect the freezer or anything else other than the lighting.
Dual RCD consumer units are junk. and only exist for the purpose of saving a small amount of money at the time of installation.
Fair enough, and I don't disagree with you in terms of ideals. However, you presumably acknowledge that that "junk" is probably what you will find in the majority of UK installations, at least those which have more recently had re-wires or CU changes?
Kind Regards, John
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