Thanks
Help with new electric shower
- Thread starter chazeskins
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You can't use the lighting circuit to power your shower!!! 
You DO need to have a dedicated supply from the consumer unit ('fuseboard') with an adequate cable to feed what will most likely be the heaviest load in your house. It will need RCD protection and to comply with a whole heap of regulations to be safe.
Try doing a search for electric shower on this forum, or start by reading the 5 topics listed at the bottom of this page.
This is notifiable work in England and judging by the knowledge you have shown you will need an electrician to do it for you.
£400 sounds about right but it all depends on the individual job, try getting another quote or two. (or take the shower back and get a decent thermostatic mixer, with pump if possible on your hot water system, this will likely give you a better and cheaper-to-run shower anyway - try the plumbing forum).
You DO need to have a dedicated supply from the consumer unit ('fuseboard') with an adequate cable to feed what will most likely be the heaviest load in your house. It will need RCD protection and to comply with a whole heap of regulations to be safe.
Try doing a search for electric shower on this forum, or start by reading the 5 topics listed at the bottom of this page.
This is notifiable work in England and judging by the knowledge you have shown you will need an electrician to do it for you.
£400 sounds about right but it all depends on the individual job, try getting another quote or two. (or take the shower back and get a decent thermostatic mixer, with pump if possible on your hot water system, this will likely give you a better and cheaper-to-run shower anyway - try the plumbing forum).
lefdew
No. You will trip the breaker the instant you turn the shower on.
Also no, you will immediately blow the fuse.
There is no way for you to connect and use that shower without an electrician. Do not attempt to.
"Ok, but i currently dont have a shower and cant really wait to get somebody to do it properly."
If you have a car without brakes and steering then would you use the same logic to make a journey?
You've just justified the existence of Part P.
For safety s sake and to stop yourself committing a criminal offence, leave it to a competent person.
£400 might be a good price or might not
If you have a car without brakes and steering then would you use the same logic to make a journey?
You've just justified the existence of Part P.
For safety s sake and to stop yourself committing a criminal offence, leave it to a competent person.
£400 might be a good price or might not
It is so annoying when people edit their entire posts out of existence like that.
What in the name of god did you think you'd accomplish by deleting your posts like this? This forum is searchable - we encourage people to search for similar posts before they ask a question. Now, someone could have searched for this problem you were having and got their answer. Unfortunately, now they would get an answer to a question nobody knows!
Heck, I might have had something to contribute that you might have found useful. But now I cant. Because you're an idiot.
Dont ever darken our doorways again.
Well I didn't see it but I imagine it went something like this.
"Hi I need to install a new electric shower and I've got this wire in the loft feeding the lights... can I tap into this and run a calbe into the bathroom?"
"No."
"Okally Dokally!"
"Hi I need to install a new electric shower and I've got this wire in the loft feeding the lights... can I tap into this and run a calbe into the bathroom?"
"No."
"Okally Dokally!"
J
Johnmelad502
You lot really do talk a load of old rubbish at times. If he wants to do this let him. Suicide has never been illegal.
You lot really do talk a load of old rubbish at times. If he wants to do this let him. Suicide has never been illegal.
No, but until recently it was to assist.
"Suicide has never been illegal. icon_lol.gif"
Oh yes it was, it was a criminal offence. I am not kidding
Oh yes it was, it was a criminal offence. I am not kidding
J
Johnmelad502
No it was not! How would you prosecute a dead person?
Attempted/failed suicide could and in the dark past was prosecuted.
It was an offence. Just because you suceed in the offence does not mean it was not an offence. The the families of those who succeeded also could potentially be prosecuted. This situation was ended with the 1961 Suicied act
which reformed it
Martin
which reformed it
Martin
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