Timed bathroom fan again

[jonmp]

This is obviously not simple as there is so much discussion about it.

I have looked at the excellent drawing by Plugwash posted in 2004, (before the latest regs) and I am still confused.

Does the switched fused connection unit act as the fan isolator switch? What about the switched live? Should there be ANOTHER isolator switch between the junction box and the fan? If so isn't it enough to have MCBs and RCA on the distribution board and the isolation switch alone?

Is it really necessary to have a double pole pull cord switch? Could I just use a normal light switch (outside the bathroom)? It's only a fan for goodness sake or is this just the regs over-doing the safety?

I'm sure that in new houses I have visited there are not the plethora of switches near the bathroom that the fan manufacturers and building regs seem to require. Am I missing something?

Thanks for any advice.

Jon

 

[EdwardCurrent]

Hello,
http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Main_In...ite_Mk_Accessories/Fan_Switches_MK/index.html


Any help ???

Ed

 

[jonmp]

I'm away for a few days starting in an hour or so. Don't think I'm rude if I don't reply till I'm back to any posts regarding the above.

Some background: I am currently living in a house that I wired and had approved by building control about 4 years ago. Now I am converting another barn and decided to do the electrics myself again and have them inspected for building regs. 1st fix OK, inspected and passed for what its worth. But now I'm trying to meet the new regs and am finding it just isn't worth carrying on myself. The whole part P thing is just crazy, how many lives are being saved by all this extra red tape? How many hundreds of kidney dialysis machines or whatever could have been bought with all the extra money being spent on this!

Pretty soon no one will be able to wipe their proverbial without calling in a properly qualified and expensively registered expert and the whole country will grind to a halt leaving the rest of the world to get on without us.

Perhaps not the right place to have a moan but I feel slightly better for it.

 

[jonmp]

Edward Current:
Thanks, yes I know about those switches but do I need one between the junction box and the fan as shown in plugwash's drawing?


In other words do I need a double pole switch
plus TWO extra switches
including a fused one
and a labled isolator switch

just to fit a bathroom fan????