Bathroom wall light - EICR

[seasickstevie]

Doing an EICR and there's this wall light next to the washbasin. Outside zone 2, but something I wouldn't install in a bathroom myself.

Wondering how others would code it. C3 or C2?

 

[JohnW2]

Doing an EICR and there's this wall light next to the washbasin. Outside zone 2, but something I wouldn't install in a bathroom myself. .... Wondering how others would code it. C3 or C2?

Assuming that it is correctly earthed, and given that it is not 'within zones', then I would have thought you could only code it at all if you could argue that it was not suitable for use (anywhere) in a bathroom environment - otherwise, what regulation could you cite as justification for your (any) coding?

Kind Regards, John

 

[seasickstevie]

That's the kind of answer I was looking for.
When you look at light fittings in their packaging, it generally says either suitable or not suitable for bathrooms/shower rooms.
I certainly wouldn't expect the manufacturer to describe this as suitable for bathroom use.
But as it's there, out of the zones, and the custard is happy, and it's earthed, I think I'll just leave it there.

 

[JohnW2]

That's the kind of answer I was looking for. When you look at light fittings in their packaging, it generally says either suitable or not suitable for bathrooms/shower rooms. I certainly wouldn't expect the manufacturer to describe this as suitable for bathroom use.

Quite so. I wouldn't expect to see a statement about "suitability/non-suitability for bathrooms" for a product that one would not usually expect to be put into a bathroom. Indeed, even for accessories that often are in bathrooms (shower/fan isolators, light switches, FCUs etc. I'm not at all sure that you'd find a statement about 'suitability for a bathroom', either.

But as it's there, out of the zones, and the custard is happy, and it's earthed, I think I'll just leave it there.

That's certainly what I'd do if I were in your position.

Of course, it also needs to be RCD-protected - but if it's not, then it would presumably be the absence of that protection (of 'a circuit supplying a bathroom'), not the light, that you would code.

Kind Regards, John

 

[seasickstevie]

Yes, whole property on an '18th edition' split consumer unit.
I'll leave as is.

 

[securespark]

The reg in the 14th and 15th went something like, fit a lamp holder with a Home Office skirt or preferably an enclosed fitting.