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My client wants a wall fitted extractor fan for their bathroom. Normally i fit the isolator outside above the door but the client is against this. Is there any reason why it can not go above the fan at high level so zone 3.
I can not find anything saying you can not but i can not find anything saying i can apart from zone 3 needs to be IP 21.
 
I was under the impression that all switches, in a domestic situation had to be placed at a maximum high of 1200mm to the top of the switch from finished floor level.
How about a pulled core fan isolator.
 
If it is for isolation for maintenance purposes then it must be located so it remains in the control of the person working, or it needs to be capable of being locked once isolated.

Outside the room would not generally comply with this requirement to my mind.

There has been no zone 3 in a bathroom since 2008.
 
That is why I feel it is important to install a fuse connection unit as well as an isolator on bath room fans, then if you are working on it you are able to remove the fuse to lower the risk of the circuit be turned on,
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My client wants a wall fitted extractor fan for their bathroom. Normally i fit the isolator outside above the door but the client is against this. Is there any reason why it can not go above the fan at high level so zone 3.
I can not find anything saying you can not but i can not find anything saying i can apart from zone 3 needs to be IP 21.

Why do you fit them above the door? That makes them an awful eyesore and so obvious.

Why not just fit it at socket height the same as you would the isolator for anything else in the bathroom like a towel rail or jacuzzi bath?
 
That is why I feel it is important to install a fuse connection unit as well as an isolator on bath room fans, then if you are working on it you are able to remove the fuse to lower the risk of the circuit be turned on,
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Or use a lockable fan isolator.
 
Run the bathroom on its own dedicated circuit, that way any work to be done in the room (lights, fans, shaver socket, towel rail etc) gets locked off at the board.
bad idea. you'd be working on the fan without light. OK in daylight hours if there's a window. then again, what are head torches for.?
 
Inside the loo, up high, near the door...so you can reach in and switch it off so the fan doesn't run while you take a midnight pee
 
Have to say although it's getting stick on here I often put them high level above the light switch on the wall (level with top of architrave) as a preference, I think it looks neat and is less likely to get switched off by accident. As for it being turned on while you are working on the fan I can't see that really unless you're working down the other end of a massive bathroom and there's an idiot on the prowl!
 

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