Electric shower

[Mr Harry]

On 8 Dec 2004 04:22:41 -0800, [e-mail] (Mr Harry) strung

>together this: > >>im just trying to get some advise on my problem. >> >>anyway just to update still havent been able to get hold of martin so >>will get someone else in to sort the problem. > >Sorry, I'm having a bad week\month etc... > >My advice would be call an electrician. By the sounds of it neither >you or Martin have any\much electrical knowledge and we could just end >up making things worse. >A reasonable one man band type electrician shouldn't charge a fortune >to have a quick look at what you've got and tell you if it's correct >or not. Probably better than guessing what your mate has done.

update:

i call electrician and he tells me that martin should not have wired the shower into the 15 amp plug like he did and that cable was too thin.

he has rewired it into the fusebox and everything works ok (although he says the house needs rewiring sometime next year as the sockets are obsolete(?))

not happy as it cost me £180 on top of the money i gave to martin to install the shower but there you goes.

thanks for the advise everyone.

harry (mr)

[Ian Stirling]

Are they ordinary 3 pin sockets? I wonder if he might have been confused as to part M (?) which stipulates heights and other accessibility options. There is no need to rewire existingsockets.

[Owain]

"Mr Harry" wrote | i call electrician and he tells me that martin should not have | wired the shower into the 15 amp plug like he did and that | cable was too thin. | he has rewired it into the fusebox and everything works ok | (although he says the house needs rewiring sometime next year | as the sockets are obsolete(?))

If they are 15A (round pin) yes they are, and the wiring and fusebox probably is too.

| not happy as it cost me £180 on top of the money i gave to | martin to install the shower but there you goes.

It's bad enough if Martin did this thoroughly appalling bodge as a favour, but for him to charge money for it is disgraceful. Legally speaking, you could probably sue him for the additional cost, but at the least you should get your money back from him. I'm tempted to suggest introducing his kneecaps to your heaviest hammer.

Owain

[Lurch]

On 20 Dec 2004 08:35:41 -0800, [e-mail] (Mr Harry) strung together this:

Good, glad you've updated us and you got it sorted, properly!

Hmm, without a picture I couldn't offer any advice there.

Well, they say you learn from your mistakes...