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Sockets in a shower room

aligarjon
Hi guys.   I have a large shower room although possibly not quite large enough.  A washing machine with a tumble dryer are to be stacked in the oposite corner to the shower cubical.  I have wired it so that the two appliances can be isolated outside the room and was going to fit two flex outlet plates as the position of them would be literally 6 inches inside 3 meters from the shower screen.  In reality both will be inaccessible behind the machines.  Fitting outlets makes it a pain for the customer should they need to be removed at any stage and difficult for me to try and connect the top one as well.  


In the general section of section 701 it says fixed partitions can be taken into account to limit locations.   What are your thoughts on fitting 2 single sockets behind the appliances, they are not accessible. A type of open cupboard is being constructed with no door so the front of appliances is permanently accessible but sides and back are not.


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    Presumably the regs assume that no hairdryer, fan heater etc will have a lead longer than 3m. But once there's a temptingly accessible socket, I could see people running a permanent extension lead so they can say, err, sit on the loo while drying their hair. Conversely, I could see that running an extension lead from outside the bathroom might supply both an aesthetic and psychological higher bar. So the 3m rule seems less than perfect.


    In this particular case, making the sockets a bit inaccessible and/or labelling them "for washing machine only" or similar might do the trick.
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    Presumably the regs assume that no hairdryer, fan heater etc will have a lead longer than 3m. But once there's a temptingly accessible socket, I could see people running a permanent extension lead so they can say, err, sit on the loo while drying their hair. Conversely, I could see that running an extension lead from outside the bathroom might supply both an aesthetic and psychological higher bar. So the 3m rule seems less than perfect.


    In this particular case, making the sockets a bit inaccessible and/or labelling them "for washing machine only" or similar might do the trick.
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