On Sunday, 12 June 2011 08:48:59 UTC+1, Dean Heighington wrote:

that was 'a long story short'? :-)

Yeah, I can't half ramble when I get going...

I usually lose it under the bath when there's one in the room.
You may want to pack under the carpet though, so that the rise to the
element is not noticeable...

On further reading of the blurb, it says "never put carpet above it or you'll get dangerous hotspots" (or words to that effect).

BUT... I was just setting off to get a refund when I had a chance phone call from my dad who, it turned out, needs about 5m2, so he got that off me.
He's happy, I'm happy, everyone's a winner!

That's serendipity for ya! Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

On Jun 12, 3:52*pm, lardconcepts wrote:
On Sunday, 12 June 2011 08:48:59 UTC+1, Dean Heighington *wrote:
that was 'a long story short'? :-)

Yeah, I can't half ramble when I get going...

I usually lose it under the bath when there's one in the room.
You may want to pack under the carpet though, so that the rise to the
element is not noticeable...

On further reading of the blurb, it says "never put carpet above it or you'll get dangerous hotspots" (or words to that effect).

That's why I mentioned the leveling compound to embed it in, but no,
it's not ideal and fudging it somewhat.


BUT... I was just setting off to get a refund when I had a chance phone call from my dad who, it turned out, needs about 5m2, so he got that off me.
He's happy, I'm happy, everyone's a winner!

Happy days... good ole dad eh! Who's installing his one then?

I have it under my downstairs shower room floor and its bliss in the
winter when the tiles are freezing and I have to do a **** stop whilst
letting the damn dog out at 3 in the morning.


That's serendipity for ya! Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

No worries.
But DO think about putting a RCD in the supply if your CU is not a
split load with RCD protection, not sure if its regs but mine
certainly suggested this in the installation guide and that was about
3 years ago.