Hi All,

Recently purchased my first house (currently waiting for it to all go through) bought as project.

Currently has a Heatre Sadia Sapphire electric shower circa 1988 installed which I'm not 100% happy with the installation of.

http://www.partsarena.co.uk/baxi/System/DATA/Dx/DS1/installation/3044/I48-3044/I...

So far I've only been round the house twice and taken pictures, not been able to test anything etc.

The plan is a full rewire and probably a combi boiler (currently back boiler) in the new year - I'm just wanting to make sure in the interim that everything is as safe as possible, a family member nearly lost their house due to a similar shower installation and the circuit cable becoming the 'fuse'

Current setup

There is a metalclad Wylex Standard CU fitted with a mixture of MCB's and rewireable fuses. It looks like there has been work done in the past. The shower appears to be currently protected by a 30A rewireable fuse (based on labelling only), there is a 45A DP isolator mounted outside the bathroom. Wiring looks like it is 6mm (see CU picture)



Shower


My intial thoughts were that at the very minimum I should swap the rewireable for a Wylex plug in MCB. I was also under the impression that ideally the high rating circuits should be closet to the main switch.

Ideally the shower should be RCD protected as well

Should I bother with the MCB on a temporary basis or shall just junk the thing for the time being and get a combined bath tap/shower ?

Any thoughts chaps ?

(PS have spotted the tap shower attachment so know there is a good chance the shower is already Kaput)

Thanks for the response.

So in short apart from putting a standalone RCD between the CU and shower not much point making any other changes

Like you I'm somewhat hesitant at showering under it without an RCD