Shower very near fuse board!

[SSE]

Ok here's the scenario. Woman I know has a garage joined on to her house, she's went & put up a partition so that the garage is split in two as one room is now going to be a room used for a dog grooming business. In the room for the dog grooming she has a shower installed on one wall........the same wall as the garage fuse board about 1.5m away! I've tried explaining to her that the mains board will need repositioned into the garage room adjacent to the room where the shower is, she's having none of it though! The fuse board was fitted to the bare block wall but has now been strapped out & sheeted, so it's basically flush with the plasterboard. I've tried explaining to her why it can't stay there. The shower is just on the wall, no shower screen etc & how dangerous it could be washing struggling dogs with the shower head & fuse board basically right beside the shower!! Her latest idea is that she will sheet over the fuse board with ply wood, I've explained how this won't be adequately protected from splashes etc... Can someone please point me in the right direction for where I can show her in the regs book that it can't stay there.

 

[MDJ]

View attachment 23937Taken from inside the shower cubicle - look ma I can isolate anything from the shower!

Now that definately needs an IPX65 enclosure to protect it lol, I have seen a DB in a shower room once before where it was 3 mtrs away on the other side of a room but that is close to the shower, thank god there is a cubicle there or certain risk of death could be a realistic situation there. Thanks for posting that up Doomed, where did you get that photo from m8?

 

[Octopus]

time to get my towel......

 

[MDJ]

time to get my towel......

Yes pretty worrying that photo, I can't believe the towel is directly under the DB lol, unbelievable.

 

[trev]

View attachment 23937Taken from inside the shower cubicle - look ma I can isolate anything from the shower!

Disgusting work!
Trunking in a nicely tiled bathroom?

 

[uksparks]

practicing electricians who don't know their job should expect short shrift.

Hell Yeah!

 

[uksparks]

Im just thinking it looks like someone has removed the meter etc to tile behind it, they should be shot, it should never have even been replaced!

I have to say, that's a pretty good one that is.

 

[Doomed]

Now that definately needs an IPX65 enclosure to protect it lol, I have seen a DB in a shower room once before where it was 3 mtrs away on the other side of a room but that is close to the shower, thank god there is a cubicle there or certain risk of death could be a realistic situation there. Thanks for posting that up Doomed, where did you get that photo from m8?

I was sent to wire up a boiler in the property and found this - I declined to carry out any work in the house.