Recent content by alcazar

Yeah, it's a 9kW. Not done anything yet, it's just got bare wires hanging out of the ceiling, but the room is spare and it's isolated at the consumer unit. Wife's long term in hospital, so not a deal of time left for stuff....

Thanks for the responses. Having done almost all the wiring in a new part of a house we were trying to renovate in France, (yeah, I know: different regs), I know all about tighten, then retighten screws and make sure cable runs are sensible to switches, junction boxes etc. So I'm pretty sure...

Hi all, first post, so please bear with me. Some years ago I fitted an electric shower in my youngest son's bedroom. It has a ceiling pull switch outside the shower. Shower is 9kW. It was wired with 6 sq mm cable. It has always (about every year or so) needed new ceiling switches, despite me...