I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the economy 7. I just want to remove one heater

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On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the
cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the
economy 7. I just want to remove one heater


Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect cable
to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover unwanted
heater.

Mike

Well I guess you could terminate int under the floor so there would be no
box there at all, that would look tidier and still allow a heater there if
in the future you wanted one.
Brian

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On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the
cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the
economy 7. I just want to remove one heater


Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect cable to
heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover unwanted
heater.

Mike

On 03/03/2021 09:16, Muddymike wrote:
On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the
cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the
economy 7. I just want to remove one heater


Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect cable
to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover unwanted
heater.

Mike

Beware of asbestos in the old heater, and any dust within
the heater should be damped down, vaccuumed out with a
*bagged* cleaner and the bag carefully sealed and binned.

On 03/03/2021 11:33, Andrew wrote:
On 03/03/2021 09:16, Muddymike wrote:
On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect
the cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need
the economy 7. I just want to remove one heater

Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect
cable to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover
unwanted heater.

Shouldn't you remove the cable at the spur box end in the wall?

Beware of asbestos in the old heater, and any dust within
the heater should be damped down, vaccuumed out with a
*bagged* cleaner and the bag carefully sealed and binned.

I thought storage heaters just had bricks to store the heat. They don't
get all that hot.

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On 3 Mar 2021 at 11:58:07 GMT, "Max Demian" wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:33, Andrew wrote:
On 03/03/2021 09:16, Muddymike wrote:
On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect
the cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need
the economy 7. I just want to remove one heater

Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect
cable to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover
unwanted heater.

Shouldn't you remove the cable at the spur box end in the wall?

Beware of asbestos in the old heater, and any dust within
the heater should be damped down, vaccuumed out with a
*bagged* cleaner and the bag carefully sealed and binned.

I thought storage heaters just had bricks to store the heat. They don't
get all that hot.

They've got a lot of relatively heat resistant insulation, and the elements
between the bricks can get pretty hot. Maybe it never needed to be asbestos,
but at the time asbestos was cheap and available, and most other cheap
insulation was not heat resistant at all.


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"Max Demian" wrote in message
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On 03/03/2021 11:33, Andrew wrote:
On 03/03/2021 09:16, Muddymike wrote:
On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the
cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the
economy 7. I just want to remove one heater

Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect cable
to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover unwanted
heater.

Shouldn't you remove the cable at the spur box end in the wall?

Beware of asbestos in the old heater, and any dust within
the heater should be damped down, vaccuumed out with a
*bagged* cleaner and the bag carefully sealed and binned.

I thought storage heaters just had bricks to store the heat. They don't
get all that hot.

Because they have some form of insulation.

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Mine had a label, no asbestos.
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"Roger Hayter" wrote in message
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On 3 Mar 2021 at 11:58:07 GMT, "Max Demian"
wrote:

On 03/03/2021 11:33, Andrew wrote:
On 03/03/2021 09:16, Muddymike wrote:
On 02/03/2021 22:01, woody wrote:
I am looking to remove a storage heater, can anyone tell me when you
disconnect the cable to remove the heater do you have to reconnect the
cable to the socket. I have other storage heaters so still need the
economy 7. I just want to remove one heater

Switch off circuit. Open faceplate of unwanted heater. Disconnect
cable to heater. Replace faceplate. Switch circuit back on. Remover
unwanted heater.

Shouldn't you remove the cable at the spur box end in the wall?

Beware of asbestos in the old heater, and any dust within
the heater should be damped down, vaccuumed out with a
*bagged* cleaner and the bag carefully sealed and binned.

I thought storage heaters just had bricks to store the heat. They don't
get all that hot.

They've got a lot of relatively heat resistant insulation, and the
elements
between the bricks can get pretty hot. Maybe it never needed to be
asbestos,
but at the time asbestos was cheap and available, and most other cheap
insulation was not heat resistant at all.


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