Electric bidet

[Newbie101]

About to install an electric bidet onto a toilet. Instructions call for plugging it into a fused spur on an RCD. The cistern is boxed and I was thinking of feeding the cable through a hole in the wall within the box which feeds into the kitchen. Can I therefore just plug it into the normal socket which is behind the fridge, in the kitchen? It's technically outside the bathroom so doesn't fall foul of the zone rules. What do you think?

 

[telectrix]

as long as the bidet doesn't bollok wash the fridge, and the fridge doesn't freeze yr bollox.should br OK

 

[Newbie101]

Great, so the requirement for a fused spur is only necessary if the device is being plugged in within the confines of the bathroom itself? Bidet proximity to sink and shower/bath are then no longer a concern (within normal and careful use of course)?

 

[freddo]

Most likely, as in the uk 13a sockets aren't permitted within 3M of the edge of a bath or shower.

 

[Newbie101]

3m within edge of shower/bath within the walls of the bathroom that is? So the rules are all specifically regarding the actual plugging in of a device, not the using of a device?

 

[Lucien Nunes]

You will want accessible means of isolation, which a socket behind the fridge won't give you.