"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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On 13/08/2015 14:00, Tim Watts wrote:
On 13/08/15 13:52, Muddymike wrote:
My son is doing some cabling prior to a qualified sparky (who he cant
contact today) hooking it all up. He needs to know if an extractor fan
can be fed from a spur to a socket. Can any of you give a quick
accurate
reply?

Mike

Yes.

If you think about it, cooker hoods usually are.

The only reason bathroom extractors are fed from the lights is that they
are often triggered by the bathroom light and you don't mix circuits at
a single load and the load is tiny enough not to matter.

Indeed. The OP hasn't said where (in which room) the fan will be, or how
it will be switched.

If it *is* in a bathroom, it's probably best connected to the lighting
circuit - to come on with the light, and remain on - using a timer - for
a while after the light is switched off.


As an aside - as Muddymike is I hope by now sorted - a timed fan that turns
on with the light is frowned upon by BCOs if there is a window in the
bathroom. Part L etc.


Thanks Adam, and all others that chipped in. Its done now. My son is just
chasing in the cables, leaving the connections to whatever is needed to the
qualified sparky to connect up. He just needed confirmation that he we
chasing this one from a suitable supply.

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected shock,
not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise all the bedroom
windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a person to climb through to
escape. Therefore he is trying to do more of the work himself.

Mike

"Muddymike" wrote in message
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"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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On 13/08/2015 14:00, Tim Watts wrote:
On 13/08/15 13:52, Muddymike wrote:
My son is doing some cabling prior to a qualified sparky (who he cant
contact today) hooking it all up. He needs to know if an extractor fan
can be fed from a spur to a socket. Can any of you give a quick
accurate
reply?

Mike

Yes.

If you think about it, cooker hoods usually are.

The only reason bathroom extractors are fed from the lights is that
they
are often triggered by the bathroom light and you don't mix circuits at
a single load and the load is tiny enough not to matter.

Indeed. The OP hasn't said where (in which room) the fan will be, or how
it will be switched.

If it *is* in a bathroom, it's probably best connected to the lighting
circuit - to come on with the light, and remain on - using a timer - for
a while after the light is switched off.


As an aside - as Muddymike is I hope by now sorted - a timed fan that
turns on with the light is frowned upon by BCOs if there is a window in
the bathroom. Part L etc.


Thanks Adam, and all others that chipped in. Its done now. My son is just
chasing in the cables, leaving the connections to whatever is needed to
the qualified sparky to connect up. He just needed confirmation that he we
chasing this one from a suitable supply.

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected
shock, not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise all the
bedroom windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a person to climb
through to escape. Therefore he is trying to do more of the work himself.


That is odd. Who is making your Son fit these windows?

--
Adam

On 16/08/15 07:01, ARW wrote:
"Muddymike" wrote in message

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected
shock, not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise all
the bedroom windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a person
to climb through to escape. Therefore he is trying to do more of the
work himself.


That is odd. Who is making your Son fit these windows?


Does he have maybe a 3 storey building?

"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 16/08/15 07:01, ARW wrote:
"Muddymike" wrote in message

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected
shock, not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise all
the bedroom windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a person
to climb through to escape. Therefore he is trying to do more of the
work himself.


That is odd. Who is making your Son fit these windows?


Does he have maybe a 3 storey building?


So fall to death instead of burn to death?


--
Adam

On Sun, 16 Aug 2015 09:17:09 +0100, ARW wrote:

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected
shock, not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise
all the bedroom windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a
person to climb through to escape. Therefore he is trying to do more
of the work himself.

That is odd. Who is making your Son fit these windows?

Does he have maybe a 3 storey building?

That or HMO, I suspect.

So fall to death instead of burn to death?

If only somebody, equipped with big ladders, would come to assist people
trapped in burning buildings...

On 16/08/15 09:17, ARW wrote:
"Tim Watts" wrote in message
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On 16/08/15 07:01, ARW wrote:
"Muddymike" wrote in message

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected
shock, not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise all
the bedroom windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a person
to climb through to escape. Therefore he is trying to do more of the
work himself.


That is odd. Who is making your Son fit these windows?


Does he have maybe a 3 storey building?


So fall to death instead of burn to death?



More to do with the firemen being able to get in with full apparatus -
at least that's what the BCO told me

Although I would have thought they would have just axed the window out...

Tim Watts wrote:

Although I would have thought they would have just axed the window out...

The PVC frames melted *way* before the fire service arrived when a house
up the road went up (young lad using petrol *IN* the lounge!)

"Muddymike" wrote in message
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"Roger Mills" wrote in message
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On 13/08/2015 14:00, Tim Watts wrote:
On 13/08/15 13:52, Muddymike wrote:
My son is doing some cabling prior to a qualified sparky (who he cant
contact today) hooking it all up. He needs to know if an extractor
fan
can be fed from a spur to a socket. Can any of you give a quick
accurate
reply?

Mike

Yes.

If you think about it, cooker hoods usually are.

The only reason bathroom extractors are fed from the lights is that
they
are often triggered by the bathroom light and you don't mix circuits
at
a single load and the load is tiny enough not to matter.

Indeed. The OP hasn't said where (in which room) the fan will be, or
how it will be switched.

If it *is* in a bathroom, it's probably best connected to the lighting
circuit - to come on with the light, and remain on - using a timer -
for a while after the light is switched off.


As an aside - as Muddymike is I hope by now sorted - a timed fan that
turns on with the light is frowned upon by BCOs if there is a window in
the bathroom. Part L etc.


Thanks Adam, and all others that chipped in. Its done now. My son is just
chasing in the cables, leaving the connections to whatever is needed to
the qualified sparky to connect up. He just needed confirmation that he
we chasing this one from a suitable supply.

This is his second "buy to let" and he has already had one unexpected
shock, not the electrical kind, a financial one. He didn't realise all
the bedroom windows had to be replaced with ones that allow a person to
climb through to escape. Therefore he is trying to do more of the work
himself.


That is odd. Who is making your Son fit these windows?


The window company he called in to quote on a couple of ground floor windows
advised him they needed doing. He then checked with local authority who
confirmed that let houses must have them!

Mike