I’m between projects at work at the moment, so it’s a good time to take some time off to get things sorted out around the house. Today I had the electrician here pretty much all day, getting the wiring on my electric shower up to the latest safety standards. He’s installed a combined RCB device and fuse in my meter box, replacing the plain fuse that was there before, so that it should now simply trip if there is a fault in the circuit. In addition, he’s moved the main “on/off” switch for the shower so that it is now above, rather than immediately below a joint in the water-pipe feeding the shower. He’s also checked all the earth bonding on my water pipes and oil supply, which was in fact all ok.
So now when the inevitable happens, and the pipe joint springs a leak, or the mice in the loft nibble through the insulation in the cable supplying the shower, it should all fail safe. I certainly feel a lot more comfortable that it’s a safer configuration.
