9.5kw shower on a 32A breaker

[Mike2007]

Went to customers house to replace his gainsbrough shower which has broken. Its protected by a 32A breaker only, but claims its a 9.5 kw shower (overloading I would think)? There is no rating on the casing or internally and on quick inspection seems to be a 6mm cable.
Does that stack up or not??

 

[flameport]

9.5kw is 40A, so the 32A breaker is not suitable. The 6mm cable could be ok, depending on length and where it is installed, although for a new install with a shower of that rating, 10mm would be usual.

32A limits you to a 7.5kw shower.

 

[Mike2007]

9.5kw is 40A, so the 32A breaker is not suitable. The 6mm cable could be ok, depending on length and where it is installed, although for a new install with a shower of that rating, 10mm would be usual.

32A limits you to a 7.5kw shower.

Umm I thought the breaker was not suitable and the cable was too narrow a gauge. Customer is a tight *** so I may inform him I can not do the work without at the very least a new breaker and cable + shower. I don't do CU changes and nowhere for an inline RCD (unless it was hidden in the loft!).
6mm cable is M1 method (clipped direct) and about 7-8m long.

 

[Mikey_A]

Went to customers house to replace his gainsbrough shower which has broken. Its protected by a 32A breaker only, but claims its a 9.5 kw shower (overloading I would think)? There is no rating on the casing or internally and on quick inspection seems to be a 6mm cable.
Does that stack up or not??

no disrespect but, are you a spark or plumber.....??

If you are a spark (or even a plumber and your doing this type of work)...should you not know the answer to your own question....pretty fundamental i think?

 

[Mike2007]

Went to customers house to replace his gainsbrough shower which has broken. Its protected by a 32A breaker only, but claims its a 9.5 kw shower (overloading I would think)? There is no rating on the casing or internally and on quick inspection seems to be a 6mm cable.
Does that stack up or not??

no disrespect but, are you a spark or plumber.....??

If you are a spark (or even a plumber and your doing this type of work)...should you not know the answer to your own question....pretty fundamental i think?

You could say I am lazy in not consulting brown book, but also whats wrong with consultion the experts (I don't pretend to be expert).
I am a plumber and have had realavant training.

 

[Mikey_A]

"Had relevent training"...."just lazy".... enough said!!!

But...no disrespect......brown book pretty important!

 

[Mike2007]

"Had relevent training"...."just lazy".... enough said!!!

But...no disrespect......brown book pretty important!

Easy tiger! Its a forum for giving useful information, not one man saying he is better than another.
Information saves lives, misinformation or no information can lead to a bad result.
Some of what I say is meant to be tongue-in-check...not literally!