I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the economy 7. I just want to remove one heater
Storage heaters
Mar 02, 2021
Last reply: 5 years ago
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Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect cable to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover unwanted heater.
Mike
Well I guess you could terminate int under the floor so there would be no box there at all, that would look tidier and still allow a heater there if in the future you wanted one. Brian
Beware of asbestos in the old heater, and any dust within the heater should be damped down, vaccuumed out with a
*bagged* cleaner and the bag carefully sealed and binned.
Shouldn't you remove the cable at the spur box end in the wall?
I thought storage heaters just had bricks to store the heat. They don't get all that hot.
They've got a lot of relatively heat resistant insulation, and the elements between the bricks can get pretty hot. Maybe it never needed to be asbestos, but at the time asbestos was cheap and available, and most other cheap insulation was not heat resistant at all.
Mine had a label, no asbestos. Brian
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