Pull Cord to Shower

[Jugglering]

Oops... the pull cord to the isolator switch for my electric shower in the bathroom is not responding to a *pull* which means the shower is turned permanently off. (Not my fault, a mate who is staying with me insists on turning absolutely everything off before going to bed, I never turn the darned thing off, so I guess he has tugged it really hard and it has gone into sulk mode). The switch *clicks* when it's pulled but the on-off toggle doesn't move from *off* to *on*.

Is this fixable by me (who will have trouble even reaching the darned switch - it's up on a really high ceiling) or is an electrickery expert required ?

[Jugglering]

LOL Knobby... get rid of mate sounds about right to me ! He has wrecked my house this weekend ..... and the cats are seriously fed up with him too... they are so not impressed at being shut in the hallway one night with no way of getting to their food or cat flap !

Thanks for the advice here - I did try the tug hard bit first (quite a few times actually) and decided in the end to simply go and buy a new switch (given the old one was about 15 years old). Having looked inside the new switch, I can see that the FinalHardTugOnOldSwitch probably tugged it into Isolator Heaven. Now all I have to do is find a tall set of steps/ladder on which to stand to change the switch over. The socket is fixed to the bathroom ceiling and the wiring does come through from the loft but I should be able to access it from the bathroom side. The wiring is very straightforward - just like two plugs - and yes, I do know about switching the electrickery off at the mains.

[ChuckFickens]

LOL @ knobby :)

Just to add to what he said, the tricky bit is length of cable left to work with and with cable that thick just trying to pull some through from the loft to work on will be hard without some body in the loft to unbend and feed the cable.

[Jugglering]

Hi guys... well, I managed to fit the new isolator switch with absolutely no trouble - there was plenty of slack in the cables all ok there... Trouble is, the pesky thing still doesn't work !

I asked a mate of mine who has electrickery testing gear to check on these bits of the circuit:-

New Isolator Switch - all ok, it is fine
Existing Fuse (32A) on its own circuit - all ok
Supply cabling - all ok
Load cabling - dead as a dodo.... oh dear

I am now thinking that maybe the electric shower itself is at fault as the cabling to the shower looks in really good nick.... Do electric showers have internal fuses ? I will not proceed with this obviously - it's beyond my ken of electrickery and will employ the services of a fine electrickery expert but is it likely that the shower itself could be the wee culprit ?

[Jugglering]

Thanks knobberlings.. you have made up my mind now.. I reckon the shower itself is defunct, kaput, without life etc etc.. There is no power on the cables coming into the shower itself which is why I suspect said shower itself ! So long as I know in which direction to go, I can get the experts in to sort it out...

Thank you !