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Moving a shower pull cord?

  • 09-05-2017 9:28am
    #1
    Sleepy
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    We have an electric shower in the downstairs bathroom with a pull cord in the adjoining utility room. The cord is currently about 2 feet away from the partition wall and I need to move it closer to the wall to allow the installation of some wall cabinets.

    I'm assuming it's just a matter of using a junction box to rejoin the cables where the current switch is, cutting a new hole closer to the wall and wiring in in a new switch using the existing cable?

    The shower is a Mira Elite 2 but I can't seem to find a rating for this on-line. I'm assuming I need a junction box rated for the ampage of the cable? Can anyone advise on the junction box and switch I'd need?

    Or am I being totally naieve on this and should I just call in a sparks?


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  • #2
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Pretty sure it's against the regs to use a junction box.




    Again pretty sure you need a rec to move it.

    Standard mira elite 2, st and qt are 9kw


  • #3
    Sleepy
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    Got in a sparks in the end. If anyone's interested, it cost €90 including having the ceiling patched afterwards.


  • #4
    Sleeper12
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,190 ✭✭✭✭Sleeper12


    Sleepy wrote: »
    Got in a sparks in the end. If anyone's interested, it cost €90 including having the ceiling patched afterwards.

    Sounds like a reasonable price to me:)


  • #5
    Sleepy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,367 ✭✭✭✭Sleepy


    Haven't seen the work yet but Mrs Sleepy is happy out with it and I'm not complaining about the price. :)

    It's one of those jobs that sounded easy enough for me to do myself but better safe than sorry with the kind of power electric showers use!


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