Bathroom extractor fans

[SPARTYKUS]

As pointed out above the 3 pole thing was to cover rooms with no windows and the resulting issue of maintenance with no lights....


Therefore....

Common sense tells me you don't need (oh! Contentious!) a 3 pole fan isolator for every fan!

Discuss

 

[RyanCheetham]

Agreed you dont need the isolator for every situation however i always fit them as i see it as good practice

 

[Octopus]

Agreed you dont need the isolator for every situation however i always fit them as i see it as good practice

you do if the manufacturers instructions say you should fit them.

 

[ashrow]

Isolators, Isolators everywhere
I prefer a local isolator for each fan (that way i get to turn it off when i dont want it to work ie loo breaks hehehe)
Seriously i do use a isolator for every fan i install regardless of light in rooms but i install humidi fans to bath rooms and only timer fans to wc,s with no windows (and as a norm i find most clients turn the isolators off anyway )

 

[Taylortwocities]

This is an interesting fitting - I've never seen one in the flesh - any pointers as to where I can buy one? Or its exact name/manufacturer?

I think its a Scolmore Minigrid. Maybe Nick can spill the beans??

 

[SPARTYKUS]

you do if the manufacturers instructions say you should fit them.

Good point Murdoch manu instrs rule.

However my common sense tells me its not necessary most of the time

 

[AIM]

Just a thought. How do you SAFELY isolate for maintenance etc..., without an isolator?

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Turn the MCB off at the fusebox that serves it might work

 

[SPARTYKUS]

Ps and that would be the same effect as switching off the single pole FCU i think you could reasonably fit in many cases (unless manufacturers instructions say otherwise)

 

[AIM]

Well done. So in a fault situation the punter has no lights until the faulty fan is changed.