Best way to remove a main socket in a new bathroom?

[jimmy86]

Hi all,

Just looking for some advice. I am extending my bathroom into the room next door and there is a double socket there. What is the best and safest way to remove this from the room?

Ta,
Jimmy

 

[Taylortwocities]

Do the cables go up from the socket or down?
How many cables going into the socket?

You will need to remove the socket and the wires from the wall completely and then re-connect. Reconnection method will depend on if the junction box can be accessed.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Do you want to remove it, or just think that you have to?

 

[jimmy86]

I thought that you had to remove it as you cant have one in a bathroom, is this not the case?? It will be quite close to where the shower is.

Will check whether the cables come from and how many there are as havent got that far yet.


ta

 

[ban-all-sheds]

You need to update your knowledge of the regulations - you are out of date, and that's not a good thing. Please don't attempt electrical work if you don't know what you're doing.

You may happen to be right about having to remove it, if it's close to the shower, but a blanket "you cant have one in a bathroom" is wrong.

//www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:speclcn

//www.diynot.com/wiki/electrics:books

 

[holmslaw]

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[ban-all-sheds]

But is inaccurate.

701.512.3

 

[holmslaw]

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[ban-all-sheds]

Maybe not to you.

But nevertheless it is there.

 

[ColJack]

you CAN have a socket in a "location containing a shower or bath" ( hereafter refered to as a bathroom ), but it has to be at least 3m horizontally from the edge of the shower or bath ( ie, zone 1 )

 

[ericmark]

The special regulation for showers in a bedroom has gone. Instead you can now have a bath or shower in same room as a socket as long as the socket is far enough away.

Except for SELV socket-outlets complying with Section 414 and shaver supply units complying with BS EN 61558-2-5, socket-outlets are prohibited within a distance of 3m horizontally from the boundary of zone 1.

This is very similar to old bedroom rules. Think old rules measured from zone 2 and the distance was shorter but really they are same.

Of course some common sense is required. In Turkey we used a wet room the only fixed items were the taps. They used plastic bowls which they filled with water and poured over themselves. If same was used in UK we could have sockets as the bath is not fixed. Would be daft of course but nothing to say you could not have sockets suitable for the environment. The other direction we often have showers over sinks in hair dressers and if we label the shower head as a shower then they could not use all the standard electric tools. OK give it another name call it a diffuser head! Not really! The real thing is there is not the arrangements to undress and to be walking around naked in a hairdressers and there is no drain in the floor. However if one reads the regulations it is not an emergency shower or shower for medical treatment unless using medicated shampoo counts in which case same would apply in a bathroom.

So some common sense is required.

 

[holmslaw]

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[ban-all-sheds]

The real thing is there is not the arrangements to undress and to be walking around naked in a hairdressers.

Just as well given the people in the one I use now.

But in the past......

Maybe we should be encouraging more Poles to come here and work.... http://www.funatiq.com/nice-and-sexy/hot-hairdressing-salon-for-men-in-polland/

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Like not installing socket outlets in bathrooms.

You are free not to install them there if that's your wish.

But the question was "I thought that you had to remove it as you cant have one in a bathroom, is this not the case??", and the correct answer to that is "No, that is not the case". Whether you can understand what 701.512.3 says is irrelevant.

 

[holmslaw]

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