Shower on upstairs light circuit ???

[CRAGS]

Just ripping apart our ensuite was thinking about putting a new shower in. The shower that is in now runs of the upstairs lighting ciruit and has a switched fuse on the outside of the ensuite is this right???

I though showers were meant to have their own breaker.... I know the switched fuse would be offering protection but what rating shower would I be able put in going pull the old one off today have a look what cable is feeding it and weather it states a rating inside as it is not on outside of the casing.... Thanks Craig

 

[Hawk81]

sounds like a power shower. the spur probably has a 3amp fuse. this is fine. seen it done before.

 

[ian.settle1]

Just ripping apart our ensuite was thinking about putting a new shower in. The shower that is in now runs of the upstairs lighting ciruit and has a switched fuse on the outside of the ensuite is this right???

I though showers were meant to have their own breaker.... I know the switched fuse would be offering protection but what rating shower would I be able put in going pull the old one off today have a look what cable is feeding it and weather it states a rating inside as it is not on outside of the casing.... Thanks Craig

Sounds like a power shower pump more than a electric shower

 

[CRAGS]

took shower of lookis like it is wired in 2.5mm where does this leave me now not come across this before dont really want to wire new cable and put breaker in back to CU what sort of shower should I fit????

 

[CRAGS]

ignore the above power shower it is

 

[bloatedcraig]

If its a power shower surely just come of the ring with a 30ma rcd fused spur.

 

[CRAGS]

It is a power shower but at the moment it is coming of the upstairs lighting into a 3amp fused switch. Going leave it like that for now and put another power shower in as the wife may kill me if I make any more mess ripped all ensuite out and because tiles were a pain to take off took plaster board of as well.

 

[SirKit Breaker]

It is a power shower but at the moment it is coming of the upstairs lighting into a 3amp fused switch. Going leave it like that for now and put another power shower in as the wife may kill me if I make any more mess ripped all ensuite out and because tiles were a pain to take off took plaster board of as well.

Wife, what an amazing creature. I put an archway into the kitchen from dining room, and she came out with the classic phrase "Why do you need to make so much mess?"

 

[nickblake]

Cant live with em cant live with out them ,women the only people to think Rome was built in a day

 

[lukeallen88]

my wife to be want me to rip up all the concrete path so we can run a waste pipe just because she wants the washing machine in a specific place in the kitchen.

 

[Colin Integrale]

Cant live with em cant live with out them ,women the only people to think Rome was built in a day

Can't live with them, can't bludgeon them to death with a blunt instrument in broad daylight.

 

[alarm man]

Just ripping apart our ensuite was thinking about putting a new shower in. The shower that is in now runs of the upstairs lighting ciruit and has a switched fuse on the outside of the ensuite is this right???

I though showers were meant to have their own breaker.... I know the switched fuse would be offering protection but what rating shower would I be able put in going pull the old one off today have a look what cable is feeding it and weather it states a rating inside as it is not on outside of the casing.... Thanks Craig

ive got one of them,tho should be a rcd spur if no rcd on lighting circ as opposed to a standard switched spur,as per manufactures paperwork..

 

[jeremy]

Depends where the pump is. mira, (I think ) do a remote pump which onto existing install would only require a spur. Pump and controls are in the loft and commands are sent from shower area to loft via SELV cable inside shower head rail. Nice and tidy!

 

[Phil]

Wife, what an amazing creature. I put an archway into the kitchen from dining room, and she came out with the classic phrase "Why do you need to make so much mess?"

hum funny you should say that mine had much the same to say about the wall lights i put in