Purpose of shower switch

[Steven Watkins]

Something more advanced than just diverting some plumbing.

[ARW]

That is why you are supposed to use a lock off kit.

[NY]

What is that? A device that fits over the MCB switch to prevent it being turned back on? I presume it allows just one circuit to be turned off, rather than requiring the whole house to be turned off.

[Steven Watkins]

Or just hang a note on it saying "electrician at work, please leave off".

[ARW]

It is a device that locks off MCBs (and other stuff such as main switches, RCDs some SFCU)

[hah]

[snip]

Something like an electric chair :-)

[micky]

I was referring to the rubber hoses with a cone at the end meant for shoving onto the tap. I would hunt to see if they are still for sale but I don't know what they are called. They would still be useful for washing a dog in the bathtub.

They have permanently attached hand-held sprayers with metal hoses that some people must like for some reason, maybe women so they can avoid getting their hair wet, but I think they are inconvenient.

[micky]

He's slumming.

Actually he means that he does it himself, doesn't bother to get a permit, and so there is no one asking to inspect after the work is done. At least I think that's what he means.

Until it burns down. Those rules are there for a reason. Like traffic stop lights, most aren't put in until someone dies for lack of the rule

As to building inspectors, when they built the first 16 of the townhouses here, they didn't extend the wall to the roof. It was one big attic.

This means a thief can go up from his place to the attic and then down into any of the other homes in his building. But the bigger problem is that fires will spread from one home to all the others.

There are no stairs to the attic, only trap doors, but eventually someone went up there and saw that the builder had violated the building code. He called the building department which forced the builder to finish the walls. Must have been a lot harder when the houses were full of walls, furniture, and people, but serves him right.

[Bill Wright]

In ten languages.

Bill

[Mark Lloyd]

[snip]

My parents got one of those in 1970, for washing the dog. The package said "fits all faucets" which should be "fits all faucets except for those it doesn't fit". It didn't fit ours.

[snip]

[micky]

I just guessed about the dog!

LOL

[Stephen Watkin]

I sell them. They're handy for someone who only has a bath and doesn't want to spend much on fitting a shower. They only cost £10.

I have an electric shower on the wall, attached to a 3 foot pole, I can lower it below head height if I want to wash my body but not my head.