Owning your own home

I think the DPC is behind that bit of render, you can kind of see it where the render's been cut away. That shouldn't affect the damp. But if the inside damp is new, something's changed in that area. Maybe the fence affects the airflow so the wall can't dry out as well? Why is the outside ground so wet there?

I thought s long as you used a fused spur >600mm from the edge of the bath/sink you were ok as washing machines are appropriately rated for water?
Have the rules changed?

Personally it's utility room or bust for me, bathrooms are for shitting in.

I don't know the rules. I don't even know where to find the rules. I don't want it for washing machines (that's in the kitchen and another issue), I want it for my shaver... or my toaster...

It has been 13 years and I've not bothered so I'm not going to bother now.

"Utility room" in a London 1BR. You're funny.

Is the fencepost attached to the wall? A big bolt could allow water to channel in and soak the mortar.

The footing is a potential culprit in itself, particularly as it abuts a concrete / cement path - it holds surface water against the brickwork, above the walls DPC (assuming there even is one).

It could be something internal too - if its a retrofit floor, it could have rubble and rubbish filling it, breaching any DPC.

You can have a shaver socket in a bathroom.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/mk-logic-plus-2-gang-dual-voltage-shaver-socket-115-230v-white/55378?kpid=55378&cmmmc=Google--Datafeed-_-Electrical%20and%20Lighting?kpid=KINASEKPID&cmmmc=Google--TOKEN1-_-TOKEN2&ds_rl=1249401&gclid=Cj0KCQjw2qKmBhCfARIsAFy8buItBZiO7zvbc7M6rzLAAtoDTzP6bn7em5Y2sXd4zXuQZBkF6qNX_MYaAj4YEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

You maybe missed the start of this. I want a normal socket.

@hippy needs something a bit more industrial

https://www.wahl.co.uk/product-category/barber-clippers/corded-clippers/

I know it's not the "male grooming" you're into over here and for that I can only apologise.

Ooh maybe I can get 3-phase industrial power sockets instead... loophole? :)

My partner from the same part of the world as yours also doesn’t understand why you can’t have a socket in a bathroom so had one fitted anyway.
I pointed out the reasons why which fell on deaf ears even when I showed here the twisted cable on her hairdryer that had perished and split insulation exposing the inner cables!?..
(I cut the cable and told her to order a new hairdryer)
New bathroom we moved the socket in the hallway to just outside the bathroom door as electrician would not sign off one in the bathroom.

You can run one of those Wahl clippers off a 240v shaver socket.

I know it's not exactly the same as a 3 pin socket in the bathroom but it's functionally very similar.

How do people power washing machines that they have in their bathrooms?

I put a wall up technically.

Not mine you can't - they use 3-pin proper plugs.

one of these

I didn't even bother asking the sparky I know to do it because he seems pretty excited about certificates and stuff.

Using electrical kit with bare cables is stupid, regardless of water being around so you that has nothing to do with installing proper plugs in a bathroom - it just happened to be something you might use in a bathroom. My missus uses hers in the bedroom which is stupid because there's a bathroom for that kind of crap.

What is that? Keyed entry power point or something?

Presumably washing machines are hard-wired and very unlikely to have some idiot drop one in a bath, unless they're a strongman doing a very odd workout.

It's called flex outlet.

picture of an ancient civilization that died out due to sockets in bathrooms.

Straya

The white switch is for an extractor fan.

The brown thing is 2 x 240 normal Aussie power sockets.

That's why we're the Clever Country.

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Adaptors are available from 2 pin to 3 pin. Chances are the clippers are not actually earthed.

I don't want shit sockets and adapters. I want to be able to plug in a heater or a power drill or any other 240v thing without running it through a shaver socket. I'm not even sure you can have 240V shaver sockets in the UK - don't they have to have a transformer to step them down?

"Shaver sockets without transformers should not be used in a wet area such as a shower room or bathroom under any such circumstances, these are only to be used in other rooms outside the bathroom."

This shit is also stupid - now I need to dangle a longer cord around because I can't put the cables near a basin FFS.

https://www.diydoctor.org.uk/projects/shaver-point.htm

you get both but low amps

So chop the plug off and void the warranty*?

*I know it's stupid, but that's the reality