Bath in bedroom

[oneill.sarah]

Need help with regulations on having a bath in a bedroom (boutique hotel style). My electrician says you can't put water within 3 metres of an electrical socket, however loads of hotels do it.
Can anyone advise please.

 

[acat]

He is correct anywhere you have a bath it becomes a special location. Normal sockets in hotels I have been in are not in the same room but just outside the bathroom. Shaver sockets and suitabley rated equipment can be fitted. Depends on what you actually need doing.



Chris

 

[oneill.sarah]

Thanks for this. I have stayed in 2 hotels now with baths at the end of the bed and normal bedside lamps on either side, plus the regular standard plugs around the room!
How do they get away with it then as know hotel regulations are really tough.
We are converting a loft, haven't got space for an en-suite up there but space for a bath in one of the dormers we're putting in.

 

[acat]

Bathrooms are divided up into zones the only equipment allowed in the zones are those that are specifically rated for that zone, as in the shaver socket as that will have a transformer in the back of it which makes it safe.

No mains socket can be within 3M of a bath and I know of no exemption to that rule, if there is Im sure one of the others will help you out. The only time it would work as I said earlier is if its not in the same room. So you could have a socket on the other side of the bathroom wall for example.


Chris

 

[ian.settle1]

Thanks for this. I have stayed in 2 hotels now with baths at the end of the bed and normal bedside lamps on either side, plus the regular standard plugs around the room!
How do they get away with it then as know hotel regulations are really tough.
We are converting a loft, haven't got space for an en-suite up there but space for a bath in one of the dormers we're putting in.

Are these hotels in this country?

 

[Graeme Harrold]

Just have a look on p64/65 of the green book (or chap 8 OSG). Covers everything in plain english...........

 

[Adam W]

If the bedside lamps were hardwired with, say, 1m flex and the bath were, say, 2m away it would be reasonable to expect them so stay at least 0.6m away from the bath as required by the regs.
Most hotels tend to hardwire appliances in rooms (eg tvs, hairdriers etc) to TRY to stop people nicking them.

 

[Jason Smith]

hmmmmmmmmmmm. .. Rules is rules. Wonder what the NIC would say if a IP65 outdoor weather proof socket was installed ? (I wouidt want one inside my house either ). Just a thought, might turn out to be a bloody good idea !! Will try to speak to someone (pass the buck ) on Monday.