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How can an electrical socket above the wash basin be made legal in the UK (Scotland)?
We were puzzled that there were no electrical sockets in our newly purchased house when we moved to the UK 5 years ago. So we simply installed two sockets and a standard electric mirror cabinet (which provides light and includes further sockets, albeit type F, since we brought that one along), both directly above the washing basin in a corner of the bathroom.
Of course, we placed a 30mA RCD and a 16A automatic circuit breaker, both rail-mounted in a small PVC consumer unit, that we placed at the back of the wardrobe of the adjacent bedroom. This was all done by my father, a guild-approved master electrician in Germany with several decades of experience (in Germany).
Now I want to sell the house, but the surveyor objected that electricity is not permitted in UK bathrooms. Really? I guess that the regulations between the UK and Germany just differ somehow, but I could not find the relevant UK regulations through Google. So what do I need to do get the sockets approved? What kind of approval/qualification should I look for when hiring a UK electrician to rectify and certify the installation?
We were puzzled that there were no electrical sockets in our newly purchased house when we moved to the UK 5 years ago. So we simply installed two sockets and a standard electric mirror cabinet (which provides light and includes further sockets, albeit type F, since we brought that one along), both directly above the washing basin in a corner of the bathroom.
Of course, we placed a 30mA RCD and a 16A automatic circuit breaker, both rail-mounted in a small PVC consumer unit, that we placed at the back of the wardrobe of the adjacent bedroom. This was all done by my father, a guild-approved master electrician in Germany with several decades of experience (in Germany).
Now I want to sell the house, but the surveyor objected that electricity is not permitted in UK bathrooms. Really? I guess that the regulations between the UK and Germany just differ somehow, but I could not find the relevant UK regulations through Google. So what do I need to do get the sockets approved? What kind of approval/qualification should I look for when hiring a UK electrician to rectify and certify the installation?