Hi everyone,
I had a shaver socket installed inside a bathroom wall cabinet. It makes a constant humming noise that can be heard in the next room. Is this normal/faulty? Can anything be done apart from removing it?
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I have recently had a bathroom makeover and had the existing shaver socket removed as I purchased a cabinet with socket enclosed. However, my oral b toothbrush 2 pin doesn't fit into thr 230v 2 pin socket in the cabinet whereas i had no issues with the previous socket.. I'm not...
I've just bought a Boots shaver and for some reason it has a 3-pin power supply instead of the usual 2-pin shaver socket cord. The power supply is rated at 100-240V 0.2A input/3W (3V/1A) output. The shaver socket has dual 110v/230v outputs.
Subject to the obvious caveat about proximity to...
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I have a shaver socket that I would like to change for a light switch. The socket is wired into the light circuit. The problem I have is that the shaver socket is vertical and fixed on a tiled wall. The only switch I can find that fits is a 2 gang 45A vertical DP switch. Can this be...
I have a quick query. I have a bathroom mirror with built in shaver socket and isolating transformer. However, it is not switched and is permanently on and as it is in an en-suite the humming/buzzing noise of the transformer is amplified from within the mirror casing and is annoying. I am...
I'm a pretty competent DIYer and always try to follow the relevant IEE/IET regs.
Recently I ordered an LED bathroom cabinet from Amazon to replace an existing broken LED cabinet (the mirror was broken). The new cabinet is made out of aluminium, has LED bulbs in the glass on the front and a...
Hello all. I have renovated my bathroom and have no use for the shaver/light unit.
I disconnected the unit and pulled the wire (1.5mm) into the attic where I put into a coffin box.
Is there any thing useful I can use this for in the attic?
For example can I use this supply for a lighting...
Hi all, its been a while.
Is there a reason why I cannot have two separate shaver sockets in a bathroom.
Failed EICR section 6.3, "More than one item of equipment providing electrical separation in one room (2 shaver sockets)"
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I have to install a shaver point in the breeze blocks of an outside cavity wall, so would use a 47mm plaster box. The problem is that the only practical location is about two feet below the end of a window lintel (and about 4 or 5 inches in from the edge of the window recess (so under the end of...
Hi guys so basically I had a shaver charger wire with a 2 pin plug, and cut the wires and put it into a 3 pin plug. Is this ok or will there be problems? The wires from the shaver charger seem thin. Please see attached image. It's a standard Philip's charger wire.
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I have just bought a flat and in it is the above named mirror in the bathroom.
Only problem is that the light isn’t working! When we looked around the lights worked, I know that the electric was turned off throughout the flat until the day we moved in.
I have one in each of the...
Hi I have an illuminated bathroom cabinet that I want to put into the bathroom. It’s 240v . I only have a 240:110 shaver point, so I wondered if it is possible to connect the cabinet someways?
Hi all, just a simple one, when fitting shaver sockets, (on lighting circuit) do you connect them via a switched fused spur, and if so why? (assuming mi's dont ask for one)
For general advice
In a bathroom - the shaver points are often wired to the lighting circuit.
Does this mean that a tooth brush charger will only function if plugged into the socket WHEN the light switch is “on”?
How to get round this? (I guess ask electrician to wire into the circuit before...
Hi All,
A customer has asked for a shaver socket to be installed in his bathroom.
The only issue is that there is no lighting circuit available (loft conversion above and no access to the eaves).
His idea was to come off a socket in a bedroom on the other side of a stud wall to the proposed...
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I had my bathroom renovated a few days ago, and I found out shortly after it was completed, that the new shaver sockets only work when the extractor fan is turned on - when the isolator switch is pressed.
I had the same electricians out to fix the issue, and now the extractor fan only...
Anyone know if you can get a bathroom rated shaver socket with two 230v outlets (for 2 toothbrushes). Or alternatively smaller units?
Or would it be ok to use both 115V and 230V skts simultaneously with two toothbrushes?
They are such a lump arent they.. why can't they be smaller like the ones...
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I've moved into a new house and the shaver socket in the bathroom (part of a light fitting) isn't working. There's no switch, it's supposed to be activated by inserting a two prong plug, but looking at it I can't see any moving part that responds to the insertion of a plug. I've attached an...
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Little advice for a non-sparky. I've just bought a set of clippers and got them home to discover they're fitted with a standard 3-pin plug and I have a standard shaver socket in my bathroom. I have researched the connection, and a euro-adaptor physically fits into the socket. The clippers...
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