Bathroom designers

[Octopus]

I've been asked to provide an estimate for a regular client. The design/layout has been done by the company doing the supply/fit and I'm not happy about one aspect.

Because the bathroom is fairly small they have "placed" the heated towel rail (electric) on the wall at the "foot" of the bath (i.e. not the tap end!)

The spur will be fused outside the room, from a RCD protected circuit, and thus a flex outlet plate will be required for the said towel rail will be within zone 1 or at the very least very close to the vertical edge of zone 1 in zone 2.

My nice shiney OSG (green) P82, says that IPX4 permenantly connected kit is OK, but what about the flex outlet??

My thinking is that the flex from the towel rail will have to run to "outside" zone 2 before such a connection is permitted - is this correct? If this is the case having 600-700mm of flex being visible is going to be a bit naff!!

 

[HandySparks]

is the bath freestanding with no boxing around it? if it's boxed put a back box under the bath with a blanking plate as a connection point keep the flex outlet next to the towel rail then run the flex from the element through the flex outlet continuously down to the box under the bath, put it in conduit then when the element needs replacing just disconnect and pull through.

I was thinking along similar lines. Is there any possibility of running the flex via a flex outlet plate with cord grip and then through the wall to the actual connection point on the other side of the wall?

Edit: I see I'm too late for this one!