Hi all,
I was wondering if I'm barking up the right tree when I'm trying to analyse a shower issue in my new house and any help I could be provided with would be great.
I moved into a new house 6 months ago and about 5 months afterwards my shower stopped working, rather than looking at it properly I just went out and purchased a new shower (didn't like the current one, but still tut tut), when looking at installing the new one I started looking at the electrics and realised there was no light on the isolating switch, ah ha the fuse has blown, what I saw then started to concern me, I have a 15Amp fuse blown in the CU and it looks like a 15Amp fuse wire had been doubled up through the block, would that have made it a 30Amp fuse?
Anyway as I was following the cable that comes from the shower I noticed the worst bit of cabling I have ever seen, the cable I think comes from the fuse box and goes into a junction box, the earth cable doesn't enter that box but is instead tied to 2 earth cables from the outgoing cables, one of which goes to a shaver point and the other goes to the isolating switch on the shower.
The question is I suppose, does what I say make sense from the fact that it would have worked even if it is done completely wrong? Also am I up the swanny with installing my new shower, I can happily install an RCD and redo the cabling but all I have is a 15Amp fuse block unused.
Sorry didn't mean this to be so long and if I don't get a response I wouldn't blame anyone for not reading it all.
Thanks
I was wondering if I'm barking up the right tree when I'm trying to analyse a shower issue in my new house and any help I could be provided with would be great.
I moved into a new house 6 months ago and about 5 months afterwards my shower stopped working, rather than looking at it properly I just went out and purchased a new shower (didn't like the current one, but still tut tut), when looking at installing the new one I started looking at the electrics and realised there was no light on the isolating switch, ah ha the fuse has blown, what I saw then started to concern me, I have a 15Amp fuse blown in the CU and it looks like a 15Amp fuse wire had been doubled up through the block, would that have made it a 30Amp fuse?
Anyway as I was following the cable that comes from the shower I noticed the worst bit of cabling I have ever seen, the cable I think comes from the fuse box and goes into a junction box, the earth cable doesn't enter that box but is instead tied to 2 earth cables from the outgoing cables, one of which goes to a shaver point and the other goes to the isolating switch on the shower.
The question is I suppose, does what I say make sense from the fact that it would have worked even if it is done completely wrong? Also am I up the swanny with installing my new shower, I can happily install an RCD and redo the cabling but all I have is a 15Amp fuse block unused.
Sorry didn't mean this to be so long and if I don't get a response I wouldn't blame anyone for not reading it all.
Thanks