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Help with installation / diagram

Former Community Member
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Hi,


I am after some help with a heated windows installation / diagram - grateful for any input.

Unfortunately, the company supplying the installion went bust and I have been left with a system that doesn't  work (incorrectly designed).

We had a local electrician do the first fix wiring based on the diagrams but he says what has been sent won't work in it's current state and he doesn't have the relevant expertise to adjust it.

We live in a rural area and electricians are not that common especially for something as complex as this.

Rather than post up the diagrams and go into too much detail initially, I just wanted to know if this is a place to ask for advice and if not could anyone point me in the right direction. e.g contact details for an electrical engineer.


Thanks.
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    Hi all,


    Just to try and clear a few things up on the pics.

    I am in the UK - it is a church conversion I have been doing for quite a while - the electrics where installed some time ago (hence plastic units).

    The meter and everything else in the pic where already installed when I bought the building as a wreck - it had apparently been installed around 1992 (ish).

    As far as I am aware the only additional items added by the electrician was the RCD which goes directly to 2 double sockets (this allowed us to have power on site) - it doesn't then continue to the consumer unit as far as I can tell. The meter etc are under a set of stone stairs so the tails run along to the left and through into another stone room where the consumer unit etc are housed. 

    We had a major upgrade to the external power here lin June last year as we were suffering quite a few outages when the weather was bad - they had to enter the property and isolate the power. I asked the guy doing it if the setup was OK - he said it was fine so I never really thought anymore about it.

    The whole building is wired up and we never have anything trip so I've never really thought there was an issue with the consumer unit - it is just a matter of trying to get the windows working (only really bothered about getting upstairs working as in hindsight it is not needed downstairs).

    I was always under the impression I was dealing with a UK firm and a UK product but it transpired the company (Finnglass) where only acting as an agent for a company in Belgium (IQ Glass) - both have gone to the wall and I've been left with what I've got and just trying to see if there is anything I can do with it.


    I really appreciate all the time you are taking to look at it for me.


    Ian.
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  • Former Community Member
    0 Former Community Member
    Hi all,


    Just to try and clear a few things up on the pics.

    I am in the UK - it is a church conversion I have been doing for quite a while - the electrics where installed some time ago (hence plastic units).

    The meter and everything else in the pic where already installed when I bought the building as a wreck - it had apparently been installed around 1992 (ish).

    As far as I am aware the only additional items added by the electrician was the RCD which goes directly to 2 double sockets (this allowed us to have power on site) - it doesn't then continue to the consumer unit as far as I can tell. The meter etc are under a set of stone stairs so the tails run along to the left and through into another stone room where the consumer unit etc are housed. 

    We had a major upgrade to the external power here lin June last year as we were suffering quite a few outages when the weather was bad - they had to enter the property and isolate the power. I asked the guy doing it if the setup was OK - he said it was fine so I never really thought anymore about it.

    The whole building is wired up and we never have anything trip so I've never really thought there was an issue with the consumer unit - it is just a matter of trying to get the windows working (only really bothered about getting upstairs working as in hindsight it is not needed downstairs).

    I was always under the impression I was dealing with a UK firm and a UK product but it transpired the company (Finnglass) where only acting as an agent for a company in Belgium (IQ Glass) - both have gone to the wall and I've been left with what I've got and just trying to see if there is anything I can do with it.


    I really appreciate all the time you are taking to look at it for me.


    Ian.
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