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New edition of IEC 60364-7-701 (Special locations containg a bath or shower)

Just posting in case it is of interest...

IEC have recently published IEC 60364-7-701:2019. This is the standard that Section 701 of BS7671 is based on, so the changes might or might not roll through in a future update of '7671.

The Abstract is free to view (along with a longer preview) on the IEC website at https://webstore.iec.ch/publication/28906 and is pasted below:

Abstract



IEC 60364-7-701:2019 applies to electrical installations in indoor or outdoor locations where a bath tub and/or a shower is intended to be permanently placed in a specific location.
The extent of the location containing a bath tub and/or a shower is limited by:

– the lowest finished floor level;

– a horizontal plane 3 m above the lowest finished floor level;

– a vertical circumscribing virtual surface at a distance of 4 m from the fixed water outlet for the bath tub or shower; and

– the volume within the walls, floor and ceiling that border the location containing a bath or shower, measured to a depth of 6 cm.


The requirements of this document also apply to fixed electrical installations in mobile applications, for example caravans, mobile homes, shower containers. This document does not apply to emergency facilities, for example emergency showers used in industrial areas or laboratories.

This third edition cancels and replaces the second edition published in 2006. This edition constitutes a technical revision.

This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous edition:

– the scope gives precisions relevant to the application of this document;

– the description of zones is improved;

– relevant terms are defined.


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  • Chris Pearson:

    "fixed water outlet" presumably means the water supply to the bath or shower, although in plain English, it suggests the plug hole where water is allowed out. ?




     

    It’s the plug hole as I know it.


    Which makes life interesting as shower trays have got bigger and thinner being “low profile” mine is 1700 x 800 but the waste outlet is central although usually the plug hole is at the other end to the shower, says the guy who has been timing how long it takes for water to run from one end of a shower tray to the other and fitting manual override switches to shower waste pump controllers, because the pumps can turn off before the last of the water reaches the plug hole (which doesn’t actually have a plug).


    So when you don’t actually have a tray and it becomes a “wet room” with the floor laid to a fall to the waste water outlet you may find the shower isn’t actually in the zone you think it should be in!


    Andy B
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  • Chris Pearson:

    "fixed water outlet" presumably means the water supply to the bath or shower, although in plain English, it suggests the plug hole where water is allowed out. ?




     

    It’s the plug hole as I know it.


    Which makes life interesting as shower trays have got bigger and thinner being “low profile” mine is 1700 x 800 but the waste outlet is central although usually the plug hole is at the other end to the shower, says the guy who has been timing how long it takes for water to run from one end of a shower tray to the other and fitting manual override switches to shower waste pump controllers, because the pumps can turn off before the last of the water reaches the plug hole (which doesn’t actually have a plug).


    So when you don’t actually have a tray and it becomes a “wet room” with the floor laid to a fall to the waste water outlet you may find the shower isn’t actually in the zone you think it should be in!


    Andy B
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