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A thread for us all to help each other renovate our homes, perhaps ineptly.
My electric shower no longer works. The pull cord that switches on the power to the shower still lights up, so that still has electricity, but no lights on the shower come on and the shower's power button does nothing. Can anyone help with this?
In return, I am happy to provide my own expertise in putting up shelves. They've only fallen down twice!
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>>2595 (OP)
If you're up for it, try checking the guts of the pull cord switch, modern plastic used today seems to have a hairline cracking problem that causes incomplete electrical connections.
I had a light switch that went dead all of a sudden and it drove me nuts, I had to use a battery powered lantern for a week.
However I started hearing this faint buzzing noise when I slowly flipped the switch on/off, like tv static. I live in an apartment and management takes forever so I risked opening the thing up.
As soon as I took off the light switch cover plate off the switch was decapitated and fell to the floor. Followed a youtube tutorial, replaced it, and the light came on again. Pretty sure this was a fire hazard.
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>>2596
>Pretty sure this was a fire hazard.
I think I've been acting pretty dangerously myself. I followed this video, and opened up the shower unit to see if anything was obviously fixable. The guy in the video used a multimeter to test the electricity between the wires, so I got my multimeter that I've owned for years and never needed till now, and I tested the voltage on my own shower's wires. I touched two wires with the multimeter probes, and there was a big spark and a popping noise. Then I touched them again and absolutely nothing happened. So I have presumably short-circuited the shower and killed it permanently now.
I think my work has a shower, so that's something. I will consult a professional tomorrow, and brace myself for major expense.
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>>2606
That is terrifying, I thought these things were supposed to be mounted away from the shower so they weren't exposed to water vapor.
If the repair cost is too high, maybe look into getting a tankless water heater, might not get the water past room tempt but better than cold shocks.