31-08-15, 01:13 PM
OK, shower is 8.5kw, found a label underneath.
The shower was already installed when we bought the house.
re situation with cables running through insulation this is why, the house is like a challet bungalow, except it's a house, but we do have chalet bungalow style bits out the roof. This bathroom was oringinally a storage room when built. LIke other houses in the close this room was converted into a bathroom in the '80s.
The main cable runs through the walls up into the void with flat roof (fibreglass job, not felt) above and bathroom ceiling below , the gap is about 150mm.
The reason it runs in this void is to allow for the ceiling switch.
Existing cable is 6mm twin and earth running back to it's own 30amp fuse in the circuit board.
re turning the ceiling swith off, yes, we would always do that but someone ( a child) yanked on it and it wouldn't return to off, the LED was permanantly lit and when the chord was pulled it did nothing. It was silly of me to leave it like that, I know. :-(
The shower was already installed when we bought the house.
re situation with cables running through insulation this is why, the house is like a challet bungalow, except it's a house, but we do have chalet bungalow style bits out the roof. This bathroom was oringinally a storage room when built. LIke other houses in the close this room was converted into a bathroom in the '80s.
The main cable runs through the walls up into the void with flat roof (fibreglass job, not felt) above and bathroom ceiling below , the gap is about 150mm.
The reason it runs in this void is to allow for the ceiling switch.
Existing cable is 6mm twin and earth running back to it's own 30amp fuse in the circuit board.
re turning the ceiling swith off, yes, we would always do that but someone ( a child) yanked on it and it wouldn't return to off, the LED was permanantly lit and when the chord was pulled it did nothing. It was silly of me to leave it like that, I know. :-(
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