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What's legal in the UK? Can we have an open socket in the bathroom if it's separated by a cupboard door? What about a waterproof socket? Or wired directly in?
Zone 0 is the smallest cuboid volume that contains the bath, shower basin, etc..
Zone 1 is the area above Zone 0, up to a height of 2.25 m above the floor.
Zone 2 is the area above Zone 1 up to a height of 3 m, as well as the area that is horizontally within 0.6 m from Zone 1.Before the 2008 regulations, such shaving sockets were the only sockets permitted in a bathroom or shower room. Since BS7671:2008 normal domestic sockets are permitted, at distances greater than 3 m from the edge of the zones, providing the circuit is RCD protected. As the new regulations also require all general purpose sockets not for use by skilled or instructed persons to be RCD protected, this effectively permits normal wiring in the larger bathroom.
found this with a five minute google, qualified electricians might have a laugh at this who knows.
You can have any type of socket you like, as long as it's 3M (!) away from the edge of z2.
Can you wire something directly in? Possibly, you will have checked to make sure you can operate the appliance in a 'bathroom' environment first, right?
Howard-
I did a quick google first re: regs etc and found similar posts. Obviously, we're well inside the 3m zone.
The reason i'm confused is peoples interpretations of what a wall, door etc constitutes and there's some back and forth of opinion between wiring it directly etc.
Was hoping someone more familiar with the regs would step in and clear it up.
Soul
Calling all electricians...
We're having our downstairs bathroom renovated at the moment.
The previous owner seems to have bodged the electrics and taken the fan isolator, the underfloor heating (being removed anyway) and a plug socket for the washing machine from the upstairs ring via some dodgy wiring behind plasterboard I'm the ceiling and down the wall.
The washing machine is in a cupboard (with door) and we were planning to have that fully replaced with a stud wall and cupboard door in the new bathroom.
Obviously we need to have the wiring changed to come from the downstairs ring; the consumer unit is the other side of the same wall so that's not hard. The question is the socket for the washing machine...
What's legal in the UK? Can we have an open socket in the bathroom if it's separated by a cupboard door? What about a waterproof socket? Or wired directly in?