Bathroom zoning question

[westward10]

You can never guarantee that switch will not get splashed with water.

 

[Pat H]

Your in the shower in the evening and the light goes off (blown bulb maybe) the first thing somebody would do is get out and try the switch. Probably dripping wet. So it can happen so if a wall switch is a must then I'd have it RCD protected. which means at worst you get a little zap.

What about something like this:
Bathroom Sensor Switch | Tile Switch | Touch Switch PIR Movement Switch - http://www.sensor.co.uk/switches/bathroom_switch/

 

[sparksburnout]

That sounds reason enough to put it outside to me, you know, for a laugh.
Did you mean Czech girls or cheeky girls ? If you meant cheeky girls do you mean the cheeky girls ? and were the cheeky girls Czech ?

Czech girls what websites have you been visiting apart from this one then Andy?

 

[sparksburnout]

Your in the shower in the evening and the light goes off (blown bulb maybe) the first thing somebody would do is get out and try the switch. Probably dripping wet. So it can happen so if a wall switch is a must then I'd have it RCD protected. which means at worst you get a little zap.

What about something like this:
Bathroom Sensor Switch | Tile Switch | Touch Switch PIR Movement Switch - http://www.sensor.co.uk/switches/bathroom_switch/

It is bl^^^dy RCD protected, he said it was in the OP. I wish folks would read things......

 

[Pat H]

It is bl^^^dy RCD protected, he said it was in the OP. I wish folks would read things......

I didn't say it wasn't. I do think its safer to re-iterate RCD protection when talking about plate switches in bathrooms. You can't be sure the whole thread will be read in the future when another poster is searching for answers.

 

[westward10]

Never assume an rcd is God's gift for you not dropping dead from an electric shock.

 

[Pat H]

Never assume an rcd is God's gift for you not dropping dead from an electric shock.

Ah but touch it again and you may just be brought back.

 

[sparksburnout]

I think a switch would have to be absolutely drenched in water, dripping down it, in order to get a shock. That is obviously why the 0.6M distance is stipulated, so the shower head, for example, won't be directed at it. I don't think a person, however wet, would be in danger from operating the switch, personally.
I mean wet from the shower, not wet generally.

 

[westward10]

I think a switch would have to be absolutely drenched in water, dripping down it, in order to get a shock. That is obviously why the 0.6M distance is stipulated, so the shower head, for example, won't be directed at it. I don't think a person, however wet, would be in danger from operating the switch, personally.
I mean wet from the shower, not wet generally.

I agree but is the accessory going to be effected but water splashes, yes you can't guarantee it won't. My opinion is to put it outside the room or fit a pull switch.

 

[Andy78]

You can never guarantee that switch will not get splashed with water.

You could say exactly the same about any accessory above counter in a kitchen or in a downstairs WC with a basin.