Interesting one from the newsgroup
Question from Harry
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hello!
have just installed a electric shower which works fine but fuse in fuse box blows if wife puts tumble dryer on at the same time.
have I bought a faulty shower or has the tumble dryer suddenly gone wrong (big coincidence, queue twighlight zone music)?
thanks
Harry
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Reply from LURCH
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~oOo~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Neither, you've wired it up wrong. The shower should be on its own circuit.
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Response from Harry
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hello. the tumble dryer is plugged into a socket.
the shower was wired in by my friend martin because he knows about electrics. all I can say is that the cable goes through the bathroom wall, round the skirting board in the bedroom and into a socket.
ill ask martin tonight weather the shower is on the ring main feeding the socket.
Harry
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Reply from Lurch
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the shower was wired in by my friend martin because he knows about
>electrics. all I can say is that the cable goes through the bathroom
>wall, round the skirting board in the bedroom and into a socket.
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Your friend Martin knows f*ck all about electrics and should be shot.
ill ask martin tonight weather the shower is on the ring main feeding >the socket. >
I wouldn't bother, get an electrician in to do the job properly, your friend Martin is a danger to anyone around him.