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Hi,

I have recently moved in to a house where there is a switch outside the bathroom that controls the power to the shaver socket.

Never seen this before and every other shaver socket I have seen is permanently on.

Can I safely remove this switch so the power to the shaver socket is always on and if so how?

Thanks
 
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Short answer is maybe.

can you not just leave the switch turned on?
 
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mattgriff88 said:
It's a switch like a light switch.

There is a dual switch, one controls the light for the bathroom and the other the power for the shaver socket.
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How weird! Presumably the shaver socket is the normal two pin safety type designed to be in a bathroom?
I can't account for why, unless there was originally something else controlled by the switch (another light?) and that cable has been used instead for the shaver socket 🤔?
 
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Avo Mk8 said:
How weird! Presumably the shaver socket is the normal two pin safety type designed to be in a bathroom?
I can't account for why, unless there was originally something else controlled by the switch (another light?) and that cable has been used instead for the shaver
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Avo Mk8 said:
How weird! Presumably the shaver socket is the normal two pin safety type designed to be in a bathroom?
I can't account for why, unless there was originally something else controlled by the switch (another light?) and that cable has been used instead for the shaver socket 🤔?
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Avo Mk8 said:
How weird! Presumably the shaver socket is the normal two pin safety type designed to be in a bathroom?
I can't account for why, unless there was originally something else controlled by the switch (another light?) and that cable has been used instead for the shaver socket 🤔?
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Maybe, not sure to be honest.

Yes standard 2 pin.

Quite annoying really as my wife keeps knocking it off my mistake when turning the light off which results in my shaver not being charged.
 
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Quick solution is change to a grid switch with 1 normal switch and one emergency light test switch that needs a key.
Then you can still turn it off but it can’t be accidentally turned off.
 
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There is no need to have a shaver socket on a switch. 99.99% of all shaver sockets are wired directly to the lighting circuit, with no switch.
The simple solution is to turn off the power at the mains, take off the switch, and connect both wires for that switch into the same terminal.
A neater solution would be to change the 2 gang switch to a 1 gang switch, and reconfigure the wiring. This will be a little more complicated, depending on how the switches have been wired.
 
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Easiest solution is to just put the two cables on that switch into one terminal of that switch, or wago the two cables together inside the wall box and change the switch to a single gang.
 
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[ElectriciansForums.net] Can I remove switch to leave circuit permanently on?
 
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mattgriff88 said:
Ideally yes if its simple to do.
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You can do this right now.
On thd shaver switch, move the brown wire at the top to the COM terminal at the bottom. You’ll end up with three browns in that terminal. They might fit.

That will make the shaver point always on. Then you can get a replacement 1G switch and move the wires across.
Obviously with the new switch you won’t need the link wire that goes from COM>COM.
 
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Taylortwocities said:
You can do this right now.
On thd shaver switch, move the brown wire at the top to the COM terminal at the bottom. You’ll end up with three browns in that terminal. They might fit.

That will make the shaver point always on. Then you can get a replacement 1G switch and move the wires across.
Obviously with the we new switch you won’t need the link wire that goes from COM>COM.
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Great, thanks for your help.
I will give it a go tomorrow. 👍
 
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