Hairdryer in Bathroom

[MDJ]

What course of action do members advise?

Get on with it

 

[Squid]

I must be one huge silly moo because I cut my hair leaning over the bath with my hair clippers on an extension lead

Nut, sack and crack I just stand in the bath and use a WAHL rechargeable........

 

[Silly Sausage]

Nut, sack and crack I just stand in the bath and use a WAHL rechargeable........

With extreme care I hope?

 

[Squid]

With extreme care I hope?

Replies in a high pitched voice..............

 

[DPG]

I personally do not like 13A sockets in rooms with showers. See how damp and steamy the room gets after a long hot shower (steady on there SWD).

Happy to have whatever judgements slapped on me now

 

[ipf]

hair clippers??? you posh sod. I use hedge trimmer or garden shears.

Bathroom fuss....I don't know! Why not throw an extension lead through the window and use the blower sat in the garden?

 

[Squid]

I personally do not like 13A sockets in rooms with showers. See how damp and steamy the room gets after a long hot shower (steady on there SWD).

Happy to have whatever judgements slapped on me now

You are in Yorkshire so the loo is in a shed in the garden and the tin bath is in your living room in front of the gas fire, I bet there are a few sockets in close proximity.........

 

[MDJ]

What course of action do members advise?

Get on with it

You are in Yorkshire so the loo is in a shed in the garden and the tin bath is in your living room in front of the gas fire, I bet there are a few sockets in close proximity.........

Or against the fence, and the women use the sink lol

 

[ackbarthestar]

Portable hedge trimmers aside. I once changed a BS1363 13A single socket outlet for a SFCU and hardwired a hairdrier 2 meters from the bath tub. I first shortened the lead to make sure that the hairdrier could not be droped in the bath.

The socket outside the bathroom door is technically outside the bathroom zones so not really a regs problem, the problem starts when the clients suffer from a level of derangement which might be beyond the scope of this forum but not in a court of law where you might be expected to take a view on the pschological state of the client...
ie...sleep with their pet angle grinder or hold arc welder parties in their birthday suits

 

[Squid]

What do you mean by technically as its physically outside the zone?

Sorry sir he hasn't breathed for the last two hours, oh so technically he's dead?!!

 

[Squid]

If you have a large well designed insulated bathroom with a decent extraction system, heated floor and mirror then there is no issue.

Don't all faint at once or call the Police but I have a double socket in the bathroom I may even post a photo up to whet your appetites for something similar..........

 

[Wilko]

Hi - if Customer wants a socket outside beyond the bathroom door I'm sure that's fine and would be handy for hoovering the hall .

 

[Rpa07]

I managed to talk a customer out of having me install a shaver socket just for the toothbrush charger!
I used the polite quips from the recent thread and told them to charge the units in the bedroom and bring them to the bathroom to use and to store!
I got away with it, would have been a minger of a job and through new tiles too!
Thanks forum members, just for being so grumpy AND having common sense!

 

[Flanders]

This is what I like about the regs , A socket has to be 3 meter away from the bath if its in the same room , but just because there is a door between the socket and the bath its ok ?. The reg would of been much better if it stated that all sockets must be fitted to prevent an hand held appliance with a 3 meter cord reaching the bath . Just checked mine the socket in my hall is 1 and 1/2 meters from the bath.
Edit
Mrs Flander's hair dryer cord is just over 1 and 1/2 meters

 

[DPG]

I just don't like switches in bathrooms at all. Either normal light switches or switched sockets. Call me old fashioned but somebody dripping wet operating a switch in a steamy bathroom doesn't sit well to me.