Heater on 1.5mm lighting circuit ?

[ARW]

I don't think that the heater is going into the tank!

[tabbypurr]

If it did it'd consume a lot more than 500w. As a room heater fair enough, but what's the point of 500w into the room versus under 100 to the tank & pipe?

NT

[spuorgelgoog]

Oh yes.

That was the only form of heating in the bathroom apart from the weedy towel rail.

When we moved to somewhere that didn't have a heat-n-light we were allowed to put the fan heater in the bathroom on the long lead to warm it up *before* having a bath.

Owain

[ARW]

And "suitable for use on a domestic lighting circuit but not on new builds"?

[Robin]

750W combined heat and light? Fan heater? Pah! If it were really, really cold we might be allowed to take a one bar electric fire to balance on the washbasin - but only while *in* the bathroom 'cos the 'leccy meter eat money.

We had real Darwinism in them days :)

[George Miles]

I'm not using the bath in this room, just the toilet (which i don't want to freeze) Up above is a plastic water cistern which I don't want to freeze.

Hence the only heating is the frost heater which is set to turn on at around 3 degrees Celsius.

Do I have to run another cable in there for the frost heater and fan, or is it OK to have a 6 amp or 10 amp lighting circuit of 1.5mm cable feeding light, fan and heater?

I haven't decided which way to do it.

[george]

[George Miles]

The bath I used at a squat in Rotherhithe Street had a hosepipe from the gas tap with a battered bit of copper pipe at the end which you lit under the bath.

Needed a bit of wood to sit on in the bath.

Very warm and comfy, but maybe the Carbon Monoxide was a bit too sleepy.

[g]

[ARW]

So you had a bathroom then:-)?

I thought this would make a change from the Monty Python Yorkshiremen video that is usually posted when we make such jokes.

[Max Demian]

Heating in the bathroom? No wonder we lost the Empire.

[newshound]

Fascinating! Slightly ashamed to admit that I've never read it before.

[spuorgelgoog]

Probably deemed not energy efficient enough.

Or they know something about the wiring in new builds which isn't up to 750 watts on the lighting circuit.

Owain

[Rob Morley]

Anything can fail, and you can add appropriate levels of monitoring or failover as necessary. A microprocessor system that monitors the current drawn by the heater and the temperature of the water, and sends warnings by email (or buzzers and blinkenlights) would be as useful to a bought thermostatic heater as it would to the light bulb in a tin.

[The Other Mike]

Does the use of OSB3 in that arrangement comply with building regs particularly with respect to spread of fire?

[Robin]

It does indeed. I am also reminded from time to time to be thankful I had electricity - unlike someone I visit occasionally who lived in Suffolk with oil lamps and candles until she was in her teens.

[George Miles]

an electric heater is 100% energy efficient isnt it? [g]

[ARW]

I hope you enjoy reading the rest.

I am still trying to find out which house this one is. From

"House in Mapplewell (small mining village near Barnsley). Two up, one down. Living-room 14 ft by 13 ft. Sink in living-room. Plaster cracking and coming off walls. No shelves in oven. Gas leaking slightly. The upstairs rooms each 10 ft by 8 ft. Four beds (for six persons, all adult), but ?one bed does nowt?, presumably for lack of bedclothes. Room nearest stairs has no door and stairs have no banister, so that when you step out of bed your foot hangs in vacancy and you may fall ten feet on to stones. Dry rot so bad that one can see through the floor into the room below. Bugs, but ?I keeps ?em down with sheep dip?. Earth road past these cottages is like a muck-heap and said to be almost impassable in winter. Stone lavatories at ends of gardens in semi-ruinous condition. Tenants have been twenty-two years in this house. Are £11 in arrears with rent, and have been paying an extra 1s. a week to pay this off. Landlord now refuses this and has served orders to quit. Rent 5s., including rates.

I am not sure if it is not this one:-)

the tree in the gutter is now much bigger (I'll take a photo at the weekend) and I was stopped from putting tinsel on it this Christmas by the my gf who said that I was too pissed to go up their ladder and the owners might find out who did it.

[George Miles]

I hope its OK with building regs, I have read somewhere about some intumescent paint or varnish to coat interior OSB with but I couldnt find anything about it when I researched it last. I also have OSB3 on the bathroom walls.

If the bath catches fire its probably too late!

[g]

[chrispvholmes]

were really,

anpierpart_3.html

My wife and her brother were very excited to get torches one christmas in t hier youth...........

They moved soon after to a 200 year old cottage with an earth closet!

She used to kick the door open very hard (in case there was a Cyberman hidi ng behind it).