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Cooker and shower on the same circuit

Dasa

Hello everyone,

A few months back, a qualified electrician told me that a cooker and a shower can both be put on the same circuit; that doesn't sound right, surely loads using such a large amount of power must be on their own individual circuits?

I haven't been able to ask a question about this until now because I had difficulty logging into my IET account and had to get a new username and password for it.

Thank you,

Dasa

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    Have you never turned up at a job to find a fused switch, fuse board or consumer unit has caught fire?

    I went to a job a few years ago to find that the entire external meter box had gone along with the cut out, meter and consumers fused switch. What caused the issue was never identified to the home owner, the 999 call resulted in two fire engines and their crews, two police cars and several officers, an ambulance and crew, Central Networks and Metering Services attending, because it was a barn conversion and it was anticipated that a major incident may develop.

    Incidents such as this does make you realise that a fuse is not the be all and end all of electrical safety, that had two fuses in it the DNO and the consumers, neither prevented a fire.

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    Have you never turned up at a job to find a fused switch, fuse board or consumer unit has caught fire?

    I went to a job a few years ago to find that the entire external meter box had gone along with the cut out, meter and consumers fused switch. What caused the issue was never identified to the home owner, the 999 call resulted in two fire engines and their crews, two police cars and several officers, an ambulance and crew, Central Networks and Metering Services attending, because it was a barn conversion and it was anticipated that a major incident may develop.

    Incidents such as this does make you realise that a fuse is not the be all and end all of electrical safety, that had two fuses in it the DNO and the consumers, neither prevented a fire.

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    But that's a non-sequitur. Things burn down all the time even where the load, cable and OCPD are all correctly rated, e.g. due to poor terminations. You'd have to show me an example of something burning down specifically due to a load being applied that is greater than the OCPD and cable rating, as opposed to the MCB just tripping or whatever.

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