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darrenbilly
Good evening all, I have two questions for you, which I would very much appreciate input on :>)
1:
I have a Stiebel Eltron DHC hydraulic instantaneous water heater in my toilet room, next to my bedroom. It has not worked since we moved in two weeks ago. It has a switch spur in close proximity, that had a 13a fuse in, which I have found is not sufficient. I have found that it needs a 30a fuse however, I have not seen a 30a fuse that would fit in to a switch spur, so what's the deal with that...? Wrongly installed, or do they actually exist?
2:
After only 12 days of living here, I worked out how much electricity we had used (we have moved in to an electric only bungalow, with eco 7). Not being use to the setup, I wanted to see what the bill would be. After this relatively short period, we had used ÂŁ130 of electric. On that basis we were looking at paying ÂŁ260 for one month. I felt this was wrong and that there may have been an issue with the meter. Then three days ago the lights,fridge and microwave started flickering. Then I noticed the main fuse, where the electricity enters the house (the little black box) was making a clicking/scraping noise, as we had not been here long we assumed it had always done that but, the next morning I was awoken by the microwave turning on and off (it beeps when it powers up) and loud hissing/banging coming from the fuse box, we knew there was something wrong, but could not deal with it at the time, so when we returned home in the evening and noticed the lights going on a mad one and then blue sparks coming out of said fuse box, we were glad when it shut itself off. National Grid were called and turned up within two hours, they noticed right away that the neutral cable entering the fuse box was very hot and loose. I must point out that we noticed the little wire clips had been cut on this beforehand... They were quite shocked at what had happened, but said due to its age it wasn't unsurprising to have worked itself loose... They changed the cable and everything is fine. Since that happened I have been taking meter readings and working out the cost, only around ÂŁ4 a day, far less than it was. SO my question, at last, is it possible this serious cabling error was causing the meter to clock up faster than it should have? We are using the same amount of electric, but the unit usage has gone down considerably. Is it at all possible?
Thank you in advance
1:
I have a Stiebel Eltron DHC hydraulic instantaneous water heater in my toilet room, next to my bedroom. It has not worked since we moved in two weeks ago. It has a switch spur in close proximity, that had a 13a fuse in, which I have found is not sufficient. I have found that it needs a 30a fuse however, I have not seen a 30a fuse that would fit in to a switch spur, so what's the deal with that...? Wrongly installed, or do they actually exist?
2:
After only 12 days of living here, I worked out how much electricity we had used (we have moved in to an electric only bungalow, with eco 7). Not being use to the setup, I wanted to see what the bill would be. After this relatively short period, we had used ÂŁ130 of electric. On that basis we were looking at paying ÂŁ260 for one month. I felt this was wrong and that there may have been an issue with the meter. Then three days ago the lights,fridge and microwave started flickering. Then I noticed the main fuse, where the electricity enters the house (the little black box) was making a clicking/scraping noise, as we had not been here long we assumed it had always done that but, the next morning I was awoken by the microwave turning on and off (it beeps when it powers up) and loud hissing/banging coming from the fuse box, we knew there was something wrong, but could not deal with it at the time, so when we returned home in the evening and noticed the lights going on a mad one and then blue sparks coming out of said fuse box, we were glad when it shut itself off. National Grid were called and turned up within two hours, they noticed right away that the neutral cable entering the fuse box was very hot and loose. I must point out that we noticed the little wire clips had been cut on this beforehand... They were quite shocked at what had happened, but said due to its age it wasn't unsurprising to have worked itself loose... They changed the cable and everything is fine. Since that happened I have been taking meter readings and working out the cost, only around ÂŁ4 a day, far less than it was. SO my question, at last, is it possible this serious cabling error was causing the meter to clock up faster than it should have? We are using the same amount of electric, but the unit usage has gone down considerably. Is it at all possible?
Thank you in advance
