Identify these electrics?

Warren1989

1970s flat, used to have storage heaters, now has electric heaters. The spurred plug runs to an electric radiator. The electricity runs from this radiator on the right, to a 2nd on the left.



If you turn off the switch on the grey box, the left one stops woking (right still works), if you turn off either switch on the yellow plate marked FAN or HEAT, both radiators remain on.


Unrelated (I believe) there is this twistable dial to the left of the plugs, is it a dimmer to the wall light above? It has no effect on the sockets next to it.




Can I remove this ugly old dial and replace with a faceplate and just remove the dimming function of the wall lights?

Any other thoughts/advice welcome, thanks.

-taff

Peronsally, I'd get the electrics checked before fiddling with them because that looks like a bodge job of the highest order.

Browntoa

Agree , bodge job

Warren1989

-taff wrote: »

Peronsally, I'd get the electrics checked before fiddling with them because that looks like a bodge job of the highest order.

They have been checked and signed off on via an electrical condition report. However I would like to get more information, if possible, through MSE.

gollum007

Doesn't appear to be that much of a bodge job to me, a little untidy but that's it really.



The grey MEM box controls the HEAT & FAN switches above it.
These would have been linked to the old storage heaters.
The knob would have controlled the speed of fan on the storage heater, but is now doing nothing at all.
The double socket *may* be connected to the electrical input of what used to the heater, or be on the socket circuit. Not ideal if it's on the heater bit, but not uncommon either.



All of this is essentially redundant, and can probably be removed by a competent electrician for little hastle.


The white box on the right (FCU) will likely be linked to the main sockets circuit, as opposed to the previous storage heaters only circuit, and controls the current heater.

The grey twin + earth cable running below this is presumably what supplies it from the socket circuit. This is untidy (should be neatly clipped onto the wall or buried appropriately really)


There's nothing there that screams dangerous at me, just untidy.

Warren1989

gollum007 wrote: »

Doesn't appear to be that much of a bodge job to me, a little untidy but that's it really.



The grey MEM box controls the HEAT & FAN switches above it.
These would have been linked to the old storage heaters.
The knob would have controlled the speed of fan on the storage heater, but is now doing nothing at all.
The double socket *may* be connected to the electrical input of what used to the heater, or be on the socket circuit. Not ideal if it's on the heater bit, but not uncommon either.



All of this is essentially redundant, and can probably be removed by a competent electrician for little hastle.


The white box on the right (FCU) will likely be linked to the main sockets circuit, as opposed to the previous storage heaters only circuit, and controls the current heater.

The grey twin + earth cable running below this is presumably what supplies it from the socket circuit. This is untidy (should be neatly clipped onto the wall or buried appropriately really)


There's nothing there that screams dangerous at me, just untidy.

Thanks. I tidied it up:



Looks OK, so I will probably leave it and hide it behind a table or something...

It seems silly to have the grey twin + earth cable going into the MEM box, going round the houses to the Heat & Fan switches, then exiting the grey boxes...as a grey T+E cable. Could it be as simple as shifting the FCU box left and connecting it with the grey T+E that currently exits the MEM box, rather than the short grey T+E running from FCU to MEM box at present?

Warren1989

gollum007 wrote: »

The double socket *may* be connected to the electrical input of what used to the heater, or be on the socket circuit. Not ideal if it's on the heater bit, but not uncommon either.

The white box on the right (FCU) will likely be linked to the main sockets circuit, as opposed to the previous storage heaters only circuit, and controls the current heater.

The grey twin + earth cable running below this is presumably what supplies it from the socket circuit. This is untidy (should be neatly clipped onto the wall or buried appropriately really.

The double socket actually doesn't seem to work at all for some reason. On that wall there are 3 plug sockets, from left to right, A, B, C. Plugs A & C don't work, but plug B does (and plug B isn't on the storage heater circuit).

The new electric radiators are on the storage heater circuit, because the new radiators are in the same positions. It was formerly an Economy7 circuit but now has been joined to run 24/7 and there is no Economy7 plan anymore.


Also just realised it obviously isn't as easy as my last post suggested, as power is coming out of the wall behind either the MEM or FCU box, so there would still need to be some kind of boxing/covering up presumably.