Purpose of shower switch

So someone who stole =A310 million from a bank fraud would be better tha= n you in your books.

Or some loudmouthed chav who won =A320 million on the lottery?

The switch in the hall is so you can enforce electricity consumption limits with teenagers.

Owain

We tend to have gas powered boilers that heat the water for sinks and the radiators. But for some reason not the shower - no idea why as they're a similar power rating.

When was the last time a policeman inspected this?

Or laugh when you make a woman scream because the water goes chilly.

But there's a switch or fuse in the fusebox you can use for both of those things.

What we in the US have to understand is the British seem to put a switch on everything.

My son lives in London, and in his flat (aka apartment) even the regular wall outlets each have a switch, right in the same housing.

Also most water heaters are electric, and are the on-demand type, located in the bathroom (aka "the loo")

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Have you ever wondered why you have soooo little success with the ladies?

The police don't inspect receptacles, that's usually the medical examiner's job.

Why would I want a lady who's afraid of cold water? These kind are much more fun:

That is NOT a receptacle! It's an exit passage only!

No idea but in old persons showers there is often a kind of vertical wire secured at the bottom that is pulled if the person has a fall and cannot get up. Brian

Or scolded. Brian

And being scolded prevents you just getting out does it?

Anyway, showers are designed with overheat protection. Mine is quite annoying and cuts the power long before it's anything like painful. Or just because the pressure drops slightly in the mains, it panics and cuts out. And doesn't modern society believe that the cold can kill you just as easily?

It would be like turning off

But you can if you want to or need to.

All permanantly wired devices need a point of local isolation.

Cite the legislation requiring a microwave to be connected to an accessible switched outlet.

I know they're meant to, but I've still not seen a sensible reason why. They can be isolated in the fusebox if you need to work on them. They can be switched off in normal operation by the controls on the unit.

You invite someone in to admire your remodelling?! Do you inform someone to check if you've fitted a new lightbulb correctly aswell?

I wonder why there is a requirement that the switch indicate whether it is on or off even when there is no power, i.e. pull switches need a 0/1 indicator (or similar), not just a neon?