fused flex outlet for towel radiator in bathroom

[gazpeace]

Hi can anybody tell me if you can fit a fused flex outlet for towel radiator in bathroom in zone 2?

 

[Engineer54]

Hi can anybody tell me if you can fit a fused flex outlet for towel radiator in bathroom in zone 2?

Personally, i wouldn't have to think twice about installing a fused outlet in Zone 2 of a bathroom!!

 

[Des 56]

Hi can anybody tell me if you can fit a fused flex outlet for towel radiator in bathroom in zone 2?

I can but you live too far away to make it worth my while

 

[gazpeace]

So you are saying it is ok to do it then?, it will be protected by an RCBO.

 

[dim_bulb]

Why can't you fit it out side the bathroom? You can get ip44 regulators- tools station £20

 

[MDJ]

have a look at 701.512.3 and 701.55 bearing in mind 701.512.2, and read through it all and you will find your answer fella.

 

[i=p/u]

or have a look at pg 82-83 osg......

 

[i=p/u]

Zone------- minimum degree of protection--------- current using equipment---------- switchgear and accessories

2 - ipx4 or ipx5 if jets - fixed permanently connected - only switches and sockets of selv
equipment allowed,general rules - circuits allowed, the source being
apply. outsidethe zones

 

[i=p/u]

well that was ment to make sense but electricians forum decided to cram it together...

 

[Fin170]

Electricians guide to the building regs has the best image for it, if it helps, sinks no longer form any part of the zones but common sense required

 

[Engineer54]

Why can't you fit it out side the bathroom? You can get ip44 regulators- tools station £20

Why would you want to do that??

 

[dim_bulb]

Why would you want to do that??

To comply and so you don't get a scolding burn usually they don't need to be so hot

 

[Engineer54]

To comply and so you don't get a scolding burn usually they don't need to be so hot

OK with you, your in the no electrical provisions within bathrooms, or death is just around the corner stable!!

 

[dim_bulb]

Sorry I don't understand

 

[vjsmarwick]

To comply and so you don't get a scolding burn usually they don't need to be so hot

i think it was meant why would you want to fit it outside the bathroom ? a long run of flex if you fit it outside the bathroom and may damage the cable closing the door on it all the time ? just the way we read your statement i think but was amusing to me anyway

 

[MDJ]

I have seen towel rails wired to flex outlets in the room and then spurs outside the rooms controlling the flex outlet, however regardless of this the regs I put up originally says what the rules are, I am in the "the regs are the minimum standard club" though and use my loaf.

 

[dim_bulb]

Oh haha I get it now
no I meant FCU back of wall and out let plate in bathroom with flex going into that

sorry I should explain myself more... Or just cut a notch out the door frame and there you go.joking!

 

[Engineer54]

Why not have the FCU in the bathroom directly at the side of the t/rail ?? I installed one in my parents small bathroom for an electric towel rail 30 years ago, probably still there too!! What's the problem?? It's pretty much standard practice to have a socket outlet in bathrooms on the continent and in the States, and has been for decades. If your that worried about it, supply through a 10mA RCD like the Germans!! lol!!

 

[rmdes]

Put a flex outlet in the bathroom with fcu in hallway, cupboard etc. you could install an unswitched fcu in bathroom but then it won't meet regs as its not a switched ISP, and must be 30mA RCD protected. I usually install an RCD fcu in hallway from a socket then drill through to bathroom and install a flex outlet in bathroom

 

[gazpeace]

I have installed a switched fuse spur outside the bathroom, but the Wholesalers messed my order up for the flex outlet, but they had a fused flex outlet.