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[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Ive never used mine. 

[STEMO]

Ive never used mine. 

I'm sayin nowt 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I meant the pull cord, not the shower.  Bloke who installed it said "This is an isolator switch, its a safety device really. Not meant for switching the shower on / off".
I said "Yeah I know that. I have used a fickin shower before". 

[Marks DTM Calib]

The pull cord is for safety isolation only as it provides the required contact separation (minimum 3mm with a reliable form of indication that the separation distance has been achieved) on neg and live for servicing, it gives no benefit at all to the user and turning it off/on regularly just means they fail.

Using it to switch the shower on/off rather than using the shower control makes them fail MUCH faster to, as they are not designed to switch a load.

For replacement chose a decent make e.g. MK, they are easier to fit and do last longer.

[STEMO]

Ours has got a wall switch with a neon light outside the room next to the light switch. The fan switch is there too, higher up the wall.

[Raeturbo]

Sheer luxury. We had to sleep in a cardboard box in the middle of the road...................................

.            Nailed club?  Luxury. You were spoilt.


......Yeah yeah.....and Dad thrashed you to sleep each night with his belt.

Belt ! I wish. We had to endure a club with nails sticking out of it. Sounds like you had it easy. 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

Everyone in the world uses the pull switch every time.

No they don't.

[deviator]

I honestly can't see it being the isolator if the light on the shower is lighting up.

Joking aside...

I've dabbled with electrics in the past. Have you hit it quite hard, on both sides?

This worked on our shower for a few months before even that no longer worked. I suspect it was limescale built up on the water control valve. I would have stripped it and cleaned it but it had been running on a single heating element for over a year. The cost of the heater tank/elements was over 50% of the cost of a new quality unit. If I replaced the valve as well, this would have been about 80-90% of the cost a new unit. A new shower was fitted. Although, for the cost of a switch, it probably does make sense to rule that out first.

[omegod]

Have fun with the 10mm cable, I replaced and rewired my shower recently and it's bloody hard stuff to work with

[BazaJT]

Changed the switch today,that was fun and games.Had to pull the switch part down to get at the screws holding the wires of course that pulled the wires through the hole in the ceiling a little bit.Connected wires up and had a real struggle with it to get the wires to go back through the ceiling hole to be able to screw the whole unit back together!! Anyway all good and working now.Pull cord switch is mounted in the wet room round a corner of the wall from where the shower unit is mounted.