Hot Tub Isolator switch

[Pat H]

Hot tub in a garden next to a wooden summer house.
I need to add an isolator.
Ideally it would go on the side of the summer house as the CU is just inside but that puts it closer than 2M of hot tub (isolator is IP65)
The next option is inside the summer house but I'm less keen on that as the summer house could be locked up so the isolator inaccessible.
I'm thinking I could install the isolator inside the under tub equipment space which is closed off with a door. AM I correct that like a bathroom as long as its inaccessible its ok to be within the 2M?

 

[Pete999]

Why not use the CU as isolation?

 

[Pat H]

The CU feeds the Summer house so the main isolator would kill all that. Using the breaker only gives me single pole isolation.
Also the CU is in the locked summer house so access isn't ensured.
Ideally I'd prefer to have the waterproof isolator switch externally accessible but can't see an easy way to do that and be outside 2M from tub.

 

[Midwest]

I was getting withdrawal symptoms, about the lack of 'hot tub' threads. Pat H, your just doing this to cheer everyone up are you not

 

[Pat H]

Mixing high current feeds water and naked people. What could possibly go wrong...

 

[Deleted member 93172]

Why not put the isolator outside on the other side of the summer house, and as a precaution put another one inside, so immediate isolation can occur without the need of a access key?

 

[Midwest]

Mixing high current feeds water and naked people. What could possibly go wrong...

Have a butchers below, sure its been mentioned before. I would suggest, that as the hot tub is in the garden, i.e. not within a building, it falls within section 702.

 

[Pat H]

two sides of the summer house aren't easily accessible. So I have the side or the front. The isolators too ugly to plonk on the front.

 

[Midwest]

two sides of the summer house aren't easily accessible. So I have the side or the front. The isolators too ugly to plonk on the front.

Put a nice little wooden box around it.

 

[Deleted member 93172]

Put a nice little wooden box around it.

That was my next suggestion

 

[Pat H]

Put a nice little wooden box around it.

That's a good idea. I could put a nice little lock on it and hang the key in the summer house

 

[Pat H]

However to comply with "visible and accessible" I'd have to stick a sticker on to show what's inside the wooden box.

I note from the regs:

section 702 of the regs if I treat as a swiming pool states its permitted to install a switch or socket outlet in zone 2 of the swimming pool as long as its protected by a 30mA RCD*. Or if not possible to locate elsewhere within zone 1 but at least 1.25m from the border of zone one and at least 1 foot above floor, as long as its 30mA rcd protected*

It will be 30mA RCD protected s I could look at mounting it at the upper limit of switch height and I may just get 1.25m away from the hot tub edge.

I'll check measurements.

 

[Midwest]

That's a good idea. I could put a nice little lock on it and hang the key in the summer house

Why?

 

[Pat H]

Why?

To stop the kids turning it off.

 

[Midwest]

To stop the kids turning it off.

Then those 'Swingers' will just have to put their cossie's back on, and get out & turn the thing on again. Can't you put some Pampas grass in front of the isolator so you cant see it?