Bedroom Switch Position

[thomas-1981]

Doing an attic conversion and been asked by the builder to put the bedroom switch just outside the bedroom door. As built in wardrobes going either side of the door in the bedroom. Never came across this or gave it much thought. Is a bedroom switch allowed to be outside? Cheers

 

[shanky887614]

Doing an attic conversion and been asked by the builder to put the bedroom switch just outside the bedroom door. As built in wardrobes going either side of the door in the bedroom. Never came across this or gave it much thought. Is a bedroom switch allowed to be outside? Cheers

? What regs does it not conply with? (how about switch recessed into door frame (not full size)

 

[Lighthouse Phil]

use a recessed architrave switch on frame or on wardrobe.
Wouldn't have it outside the room..

 

[shanky887614]

use a recessed architrave switch on frame or on wardrobe.
Wouldn't have it outside the room..

Thats what I meant

 

[Lighthouse Phil]

Thats what I meant

Sorry, didn't mean to steal your thunder..

 

[shanky887614]

Sorry, didn't mean to steal your thunder..

Nah its fine, I have never used them or seen them but I know of them

 

[brman]

if you are desperate for space how about a pull cord somewhere near the door? better than outside anyway.....

 

[bigdavs83]

Why not? It doesn't say anywhere that it must be installed inside the room. If that's what the builder/client wants then what's the hassle.

 

[Hawkmoon]

If you have to position it outside the door I would 2way it with a switch adj to bed - nobody is going to be happy with having to go outside the room to switch off at night.

 

[RyanCheetham]

I have a bedroom in my house with the light switch outside the door, was done as part of the build because there is no room for a switch beside the door inside due to a walk in wardrobe. I must say i find it really annoying and we don't even use the room and i have yet to come up with a suitable alternative, short of reducing the walk in wardrobe.

 

[telectrix]

Prem-i-Air Wireless Remote Control Dimmable Light Socket Set


problem solved.

 

[RyanCheetham]

I was thinking something more permanant Tel, no doubt someone will lose the remote. Not to mention they are uglier than energy saving lambs

 

[kingeri]

I find it hard to believe that there is nowhere in the room to position a light switch, I mean they aren't the biggest things in the world are they. As said, why not use a pull switch?

 

[ian.settle1]

Can just see it now the male occupant totally stark naked comes out off room to switch on light only to meet poor granny outside the door

 

[telectrix]

I was thinking something more permanant Tel, no doubt someone will lose the remote. Not to mention they are uglier than energy saving lambs

baa, baaa.

 

[RyanCheetham]

I have fat fingers and a silly touch screen phone

 

[Richard Burns]

put up an occupancy sensor instead, no need for a light switch then, but you would need to get used to the light coming on every time you roll over in bed!

 

[Hawkmoon]

put up an occupancy sensor instead, no need for a light switch then, but you would need to get used to the light coming on every time you roll over in bed!

lol - or install a clapper!

 

[ArseyDee]

So the built in wardrobes are being taken tight to the bedroom door architrave. Surely they could stop 2 inches shy to allow room for a wall mounted (architrave) switch.

 

[Rockingit]

Get the chippy to build a backing for it and just stock it in the side of the cabinet using a fastfix box.

 

[7029 dave]

As said if the switch has to go out side, run a 3core and have two way by bed,pull cord or cut in wall.

 

[Geordie Spark]

Energy saving lambs save energy by lying about all day watching Jeremy Kyle on tv instead of gamboling around the meadow.

They are often to be found in Scouseland and parts thereabouts.

There have been reports of them being found in Sunderland too.

 

[tidyboiler]

Energy saving lambs save energy by lying about all day watching Jeremy Kyle on tv instead of gamboling around the meadow.

They are often to be found in Scouseland and parts thereabouts.

There have been reports of them being found in Sunderland too.

and one or two in Gateshead.

 

[telectrix]

Energy saving lambs save energy by lying about all day watching Jeremy Kyle on tv instead of gamboling around the meadow.

They are often to be found in Scouseland and parts thereabouts.

There have been reports of them being found in Sunderland too.

only ones you'll find in scouseland are already chops.

 

[thomas-1981]

Thanks for the replies guys. The job is completed and these wardrobes are an after thought. The switch is a 3 gang switching a line of down lights and 2 pair of wall lights (3 pull cords a bit much). Trust me if I knew these wardrobes were going in this position the switch would've been somewhere else. I did give the option of trunking inside the wardrobe and putting the switch just inside the bedroom door on the face of the panelling but customer doesn't want these new wardrobes touched. Just never fitted a switch outside a bedroom and was unsure if there was a reg not allowing this. Outside the room it is. Thanks again for your replies.

 

[Chrisuk]

I would go for a pull cord from the roof too, rather than using if outside, if it as a door and it's closed u are cut off from it and if kids are in the house you know they will turn it off when someone Is inside!! Never actually seen a bedroom switch on the outside, only a bathroom switch on the outside!

 

[thomas-1981]

3 pull cords in a new attic conversion? And its the only room on the floor.

 

[kingeri]

I would go for a pull cord from the roof too, rather than using if outside, if it as a door and it's closed u are cut off from it and if kids are in the house you know they will turn it off when someone Is inside!! Never actually seen a bedroom switch on the outside, only a bathroom switch on the outside!

I don't think it would be practical to fit the pullcord on the roof, the cord would have to enter the room through the window, and when the window is closed it wouldn't operate at all.

 

[Adam W]

Could you have a pull cord for, say, the downlighters, then the other switches elsewhere? Then you could switch the lights on when you enter the room like normal people do, and turn the other lights on as and when you want them.

I'd be tempted to ask the customer where they think the light switch should be. Maybe it should be downstairs next to the CU, then it's not in the way at all.

 

[overskilled]

I was thinking something more permanant Tel, no doubt someone will lose the remote. Not to mention they are uglier than energy saving lambs

Lightwave RF switches perhaps?