Dear Resident Electrician,
I am hoping you can help me with a problem I have had recently with my shower. I live in a rented house so have no idea on the quality of the electricals.
The shower is electric and whilst taking a shower it began to smoke emitting an awful rancid smell. Of course I immediately turned the shower off, and for sometime afterwards it was still smoking. It turns out the outer casing has melted at the top leaving a hole exposing the inside of the casing!
Do you feel it is safe for me to replace the shower? When I moved into the house the shower was not working, the landlord replaced one of the breakers in the circuit board to accommodate use of this shower and it has been working fine up to this point.
Any advice would be appreciated
Thank you
Kay
Comments
1 comment postedthis shower should not be used until it has been certified safe by an approved electrician. what i mean by certified is that a installation certificate complying with BS7671 is shown to you the end user.
However if you have smoke coming from an electrical appliance that you cannot disconnect immediately call the emergency services.It can KILL.