Spurring of Shower isolator.

[Perret]

Really screwed for access here. Can I spur a socket off of a shower switch? Would I have to put a 13A fuswed spur inbetween?

Cheers now!

 

[rich.250]

No, as any hard wired appliance over 2kw should be on a independent cct.

 

[Perret]

Cheers Rich. Didn't think so. Guess I was just hoping ;-)

 

[oldtimer]

Cooker ,Immersion,Shower are what i call dedicated circuits plus I have seen a wall light in a bathroom spurred off a shower circuit and the customer could not understand what the problem was ie 40 amp fuse protecting a 5 amp rated cable

 

[i=p/u]

perfectly fine if you fuse it... but the next spark will be hounding you.. catch me if you can. bruuuuuum!!!

 

[Strima]

Cooker ,Immersion,Shower are what i call dedicated circuits plus I have seen a wall light in a bathroom spurred off a shower circuit and the customer could not understand what the problem was ie 40 amp fuse protecting a 5 amp rated cable

Nothing wrong with that. The 1.0mm T+E that did run to my garage lasted for years... Until I moved in, snippety, snip...

 

[kingeri]

It could be done safely with a FCU but it is a big no-no reg-wise. As stated above, the fixed appliance needs to be on a dedicated circuit. I certainly wouldn't put my name to it.

 

[Guest55]

Whats the difference between the original question and a cooker control unit with a socket ?
And if the cable to the socket is wired in 6mm ?

 

[kingeri]

Big difference to me is that they don't make shower isolators with a socket built in!

 

[Top Cat]

What about a C/heating circ off the immersion heater circ. For ***** sake is it that bad?

 

[Guest55]

Im not saying its the done thing , just making folk think about the issue more closely.

 

[rich.250]

What about a C/heating circ off the immersion heater circ. For ***** sake is it that bad?

I don't really see that to be a major problem. As one could say that it is definitely related.

 

[mackers]

if you can fit an extra cable in with the 2 ten mm's then your a better man than me lol

 

[i=p/u]

fuse it within 3m , tin hat they sayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy ...... its not normal do this........... ive never seen it done, and im getting about

 

[Guest55]

if you can fit an extra cable in with the 2 ten mm's then your a better man than me lol

And if the cooker / shower is wired in 6mm , as millions are , then theres plenty of room in those oversized 45A terminals for another 6mm ;-)

 

[Top Cat]

if you can fit an extra cable in with the 2 ten mm's then your a better man than me lol

It's a lump hammer and crow bar for just the 2 x 10mm cables in a pull switch!

 

[sedgy34]

I would say if it's on a 32a fuse go for it just protect your cable to spur don't think switched spur terminals are rated any higher before they melt.

 

[mogga]

Short answer is NO

 

[High Tower]

It's the fact that you would need to get a 3rd 10mm2 cable in to the pull cord and then terminate that in a patress with the 10mm connected to the supply side of a FCU!, good luck with that!!

 

[rich.250]

I don't thin that's the issue as you could back fuse up to 3m, so if it's going to a 13a fcu. Then it could be 2.5.

I just don't see that it complies, an there must be a better way. I wouldn't do it myself.