can a socket back on to shower?

[JohnW2]

It would be a nuisance, if your Christmas lights, or your microwave kept tripping, on Christmas Day

It would, but it's not the usually intended meaning of 'nuisance trip', which usually refers to the situation in which an RCD operates in the absence of any apparent residual current.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

It would, but it's not the usually intended meaning of 'nuisance trip', which usually refers to the situation in which an RCD operates in the absence of any apparent residual current.

That depends on whether you are the occupant, or the guy called in to sort it

 

[JohnW2]

That depends on whether you are the occupant, or the guy called in to sort it

I don't think any guy would usually be able to 'sort' the type of 'nuisance trips' I was referring to, even if he/she were 'called in'

 

[pete01]

I personally avoid putting accessories on the other side of showers. Just in case there is a leak. I like to over-engineer things......

Would you fit a consumer unit beneath a bathroom?

 

[JohnW2]

Would you fit a consumer unit beneath a bathroom?

I have two CUs and a lot of other switchgear etc. in a utility room directly underneath a bathroom - and that does not disturb my sleep

 

[pete01]

I have two CUs and a lot of other switchgear etc. in a utility room directly underneath a bathroom - and that does not disturb my sleep

You should move your bathroom asap.

 

[foxhole]

Absolutely nothing wrong with that location what so ever

I have sockets below and around sink, I told the Mrs it’s perfectly safe as I never do the washing up .

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I have two CUs and a lot of other switchgear etc. in a utility room directly underneath a bathroom - and that does not disturb my sleep

It would concern me, I would try to minimise the electrics, below a bathroom, and definitely try to avoid having CU's and any switchgear, meters and etc. under it - the risk is high, and water on such, would make the place uninhabitable. We've suffered one bathroom flood, where a shower where either the shower turned itself on or was left on....

It soaked the bathroom floor, the ceiling below, and the room too. Luckily, the room involved was the downstairs toilet, the only electrics a light, and a light switch. I was able to isolate them, then leave them for a day two to dry out, reconnect, and good as new. It would have been a very different matter, had the CU been under there.

Rather worse than that, but I had a bank which had it's large basement flood, all the d/boars, switchgear, gas and electric meters, below several feet of water. It continued to operate normally, during the several days it took to pump out, then the month it took to replace both meters, and d/board, and switchgear, in stages, each night. It proved an expensive flood.

 

[securespark]

It would be a nuisance, if your Christmas lights, or your microwave kept tripping, on Christmas Day

It would be even more of a nuisance, if the supply to your freezer tripped, whilst you were away for a few days. Hence, why mine are on an unprotected circuit, of their own.

You are a man after my own heart.

I take that reg to heart. Splitting things up to minimise inconvenience etc..

 

[JohnW2]

It would concern me, I would try to minimise the electrics, below a bathroom, and definitely try to avoid having CU's and any switchgear, meters and etc. under it - the risk is high, ....

... there is dramatic variation in the extent to which different individuals are risk-averse, and maybe you and I are towards opposite ends of the spectrum.

I obviously don't know exactly what you mean by "risk is high", but there have not been any leaks from the bathroom above onto my CUs and switchgear in the past ~40 years, even in the days when I had two teenage daughters here who were sloshing water all over the place for protracted periods of time - so I don't really perceive a 'high risk'.!

 

[securespark]

Some of my "aversion" comes from spending some years visiting customers attending faults and boy what a lot of faults: involving junction boxes and water, under kitchens, under bathrooms, everywhere!

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

I obviously don't know exactly what you mean by "risk is high", but there have not been any leaks from the bathroom above onto my CUs and switchgear in the past ~40 years, even in the days when I had two teenage daughters here who were sloshing water all over the place for protracted periods of time - so I don't really perceive a 'high risk'.!

The risk is high, should you get any sort of leak or pipe failure, in your bathroom, of your loosing your entire electricity supply.

I'm not averse to taking risks, but I certainly try to minimise the impact, of any risks I do find it worthwhile taking. Deliberately building a bathroom, where if it flooded, would flood the items you mention, would need some mitigation, for me to accept it, such as the inclusion of a waterproofing membrane. I certainly don't believe in inviting disaster, where it is so easily averted.

 

[JohnW2]

You should move your bathroom asap.

It (and my electrical installation) have been very happy with it where it is for the last ~40 years of my occupancy, and I imagine that their predecessors were probably been happy with the situation for decades prior to that.

 

[pete01]

It (and my electrical installation) have been very happy with it where it is for the last ~40 years of my occupancy, and I imagine that their predecessors were probably been happy with the situation for decades prior to that.

But it might....only might leak tomorrow.

I'm joking by the way....lol.

 

[JohnW2]

Some of my "aversion" comes from spending some years visiting customers attending faults and boy what a lot of faults: involving junction boxes and water, under kitchens, under bathrooms, everywhere!

Fair enough, but that's an extremely biased viewpoint, since it doesn't take into account the millions of households you haven't visited because they have not had water getting into their electrical installation.

Brain surgeons will see a good few 'customers' with rare brain tumours, but that doesn't alter the fact that such tumours are very rare. Similarly those whose job is to investigate aircraft crashes ..... etc. etc.