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by citywest
Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:38 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Storage heater blowing fuse
Replies: 13
Views: 19838

Hi and thanks for all of your replies. Some further information to add is that storage heater are connected via a non-fused connection unit at the wall and is protected by a 15amp cartridge fuse in a Wylex consumer unit that is about 8 years old. The storage heater was taken from an old installation...
by citywest
Sat Jan 05, 2008 10:58 pm
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Storage heater blowing fuse
Replies: 13
Views: 19838

Storage heater blowing fuse

The storage heater in the lounge keeps blowing the 15A fuse in the consumer unit. When replaced it will last about a week and then will blow again. The thermal fuse inside the heater remains intact. It is a Creda 3.4Kw TSR Slimline model and is approx 15 years old. Does anybody have any ideas as to ...
by citywest
Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:21 am
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Concrete Ceilings
Replies: 1
Views: 3626

Concrete Ceilings

Has anybody come across this practice before? I live in a purpose built flat with concrete floors and ceiling. The cables for the ring main and the lighting circuit are imbedded into the concrete floors and ceilings with no conduit used apart from besa back boxes which the ceiling roses are screwed ...
by citywest
Wed May 30, 2007 3:59 pm
Forum: Plastering and Dry Lining Forum
Topic: New Plasterboard Ceiling
Replies: 1
Views: 4674

New Plasterboard Ceiling

I will soon be putting up a new plasterbaord ceiling and had been thinking this would need to be plastered before painting. However I have been told there is no need to have the boards plastered, just to tape and filler the joints and then simply paint. I have always thoughts that it should be plast...
by citywest
Fri May 25, 2007 1:08 am
Forum: Electrics Forum
Topic: Flat Rewire
Replies: 4
Views: 3720

Flat Rewire

I live in a flat but with reinforced concrete floors and ceilings, into which the original wiring has been embedded and not fed through conduit. Also, the solid brick walls have a very thin layer of plaster and as a result, the cables that run down from the ceiling to the light switches, and from th...
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