Why you don't down-rate shower cables....

[Rockingit]

Simple call to look at a shower iso that had burnt out. Apparently not for the first time, so I make my first look in the shower itself. Nothing to report. Take apart the iso and discover the picture below. OK, only 6mm so what rating's the shower....hang on....when I opened it there was 10mm inside.....and there's 10mm exiting the CU.....

Up in the loft I discover the circuits been extended with some 6mm, using 2 x cooker CCU's mounted in surface boxes for joining it together.

DIY will always keep me in a pension.

 

[mcauto]

nice smell id say

 

[MarkieSparkie]

Classic case, mate.
It must have cost the DIYer/cowboy more doing that way than doing the job properly with a new 10mm[SUP]2[/SUP]... why do they do it? ... just to save 1/2 hour on the installation time ... never mind the fire risk.

 

[Guest123]

Plain stupid, nothing else.

They know (or at least should) it's wrong but still continue to do it.

 

[needasparks]

Common thing to find on a shower isolator when the rocker burns out, setting aside the change in cable sizes. People turn the shower off by the isolator every day and wear the thing out, just need re-educating into learning its not a switch, its an isolator. And can be left on and just use the switch on the shower.
You just have to ask them if they turn their cooker off at the isolator every day.

 

[GT1]

You just have to ask them if they turn their cooker off at the isolator every day.

Haha. I know plenty of old duffers that do !!

 

[needasparks]

Haha. I know plenty of old duffers that do !!

Yeah, know what you mean. We have all been brought up to turn off things when your not using them, well apart from my kids aparently, house always looks like a christmas tree when i come home.

But worth explaining to people as it can damage most modern showers Triton/Mira as they have phased shutdown to run cool before stopping so the heat left in them when stopped will cook them up and reduce the life of the shower.

 

[Rockingit]

Just an aside - You know the Crabtree 50A shower pulls, the really great to fit ones, that cost around £10??? Click (Scolmore) make EXACTLY THE SAME under licence, for about £6.