Help - temporary electric shower - permitted under Part P regs or no?

Gloomendoom

Well done.

I was just about to recommend a bucket of hot water and a stirrup pump.

louisdog

You joke but I did consider just boiling a kettle and making up a watering can of warm water, but thought that might get rather tedious rather quickly!

1984ReturnsForReal_2

louisdog wrote: »

You joke but I did consider just boiling a kettle and making up a watering can of warm water, but thought that might get rather tedious rather quickly!

Now, back to the question...


Would the council pass it?

keystone

louisdog wrote: »

And Keystone if you are reading this, you will be glad I am still :rotfl:and also .

Actually no I'm not because the stupid childish in the first was totally unecessary at that time as my post was directed at someone else not you but you seem incapable of understanding that.

Never mind - you can be as smug as you like because you got what you wanted but in my opinion you do NOT have a safe installation. Whether you care or not about that is of no consequence to me whatsoever but you will not change that opinion.

If the mechanical fixings for that shower are only through grout lines, unless you have very large grout lines, the fixings are inadequate and it is insecure. Whether it is currently electrically safe (excuse the pun) or not doesn't matter when it is so easily pulled off the wall, the volts still come into contact with the water.

Presumably your electrician is notifying the work to LABC and he has left you a MWC?

Your problem, your funeral.

Cheers

Homersimpson

I assume that the OP means that they have drilled through the tile grout into the wall to provide a secure fixing for the temporary shower which would be more than strong enough and no differemt to drilling through any part of the tile into the wall for a fixing.

This thread seems to have got a little out of hand for a simple case of fixing a temporary shower, wiring it in some 10mm2 twin and earth and serving it from an RCD/RCBO.

Chill out everyone, its only a shower!

keystone

Homersimpson wrote: »

I assume that the OP means that they have drilled through the tile grout into the wall to provide a secure fixing for the temporary shower which would be more than strong enough and no differemt to drilling through any part of the tile into the wall for a fixing.

Except that he wanted it fixed with NO damage to the tiles. Which has apparently been done. Now unless the plumber has magically found a way of drilling through the grout without damaging the tiles and still using an appropriate wallplug and No8 Screw in 2mm grout joint (assuming, of course a pretty standard grout joint for wall tiles) he must have used a much smaller fixing with something like a No 4 screw. And since when has any shower of any description had fixing holes that magically all line up with grout lines? Errrm - never. So not all the manufacturer supplied fixing holes in the unit have been used and with damned small screws presumably in the ones that have that in my opinion is totally insecure and the installation is not safe. Of course, it may be that the tiles have been drilled after all and we have not been told or the OP is unaware that they have. The OP has got what he wants and seems happy. Thats OK for him. I'm only making this point in case someone DIY'ing comes across this thread and thinks its OK to do it this way for his installation.

This thread seems to have got a little out of hand for a simple case of fixing a temporary shower, wiring it in some 10mm2 twin and earth and serving it from an RCD/RCBO.

Chill out everyone, its only a shower!

I'm quite chilled thank you and my irritation has subsided long ago. The snide remarks and the childish came from another quarter entirely.

Cheers

1984ReturnsForReal_2

Homersimpson wrote: »

This thread seems to have got a little out of hand for a simple case of fixing a temporary shower, wiring it in some 10mm2 twin and earth and serving it from an RCD/RCBO.

Chill out everyone, its only a shower!

I think it was 6mm .