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Are Electrical Bidet Installations Illegal in Most UK Bathrooms?

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I was hearing about bidets being possibly cheaper and more hygenic, and I was looking into installing one. They need a mains supply, and a fused outlet plate. Is it just not possible in this country?
  • Yes our generation was brung up on outside loos, not nice in winter (we got some bad winters back then). Izal paper was common and nobody like it. When some folk got an inside loo on a gov grant most folk were horrified, unhygenic, disgusting, what if the soil pipe backs up? sort of comments. You would run to the outside loo if absolutely nessacary to visit it and would not loiter. Hope Mum had remembered to light the "nite light" (small stubby candle to keep the frost of the WC pipework).


    Bidets, I remember my Grandparents telling folk their hotel in Spain was good and had a "footbath" in the bathroom, my Mum (who was in the travel industry , otherwise we might not have known the error) told us not to tell them that it was not actually a footbath as such, to our great amusement.


    Electric ones! well I never! There`s me thinking soft tissue is a luxury.


    Even tiny shocks should be avoided (and can be if the regs are followed)
  • Sparkingchip:
    geoffsd:
    I was hearing about bidets being possibly cheaper and more hygenic, 




    Than what?  ?






     






    Yes, cheaper than a puppy.


    Z.


  • Chris Pearson:
    geoffsd:
    I was hearing about bidets being possibly cheaper and more hygenic, 




    Than what?  ?




    See Zoomy's posting two up - Izal. Now that does bring back memories - not fond ones. Who on Earth could have thought of such a thing?


    Back to the OP and more seriously, suppose that you lose your hands. Wouldn't such a device be a godsend? Even better if it is a WC which collects, washes and dries? 




    We hope that the collecting, washing and drying is done in the correct order. A fault may cause the processes to occur in the wrong order with disastrous results.


    Z.


  • mapj1:

    That   link  or another one for broadgage

    M.


    It appears that the Vitra V is self levitating.


    Z.


  • ebee:

    Yes our generation was brung up on outside loos, not nice in winter (we got some bad winters back then). Izal paper was common and nobody like it. When some folk got an inside loo on a gov grant most folk were horrified, unhygenic, disgusting, what if the soil pipe backs up? sort of comments. You would run to the outside loo if absolutely nessacary to visit it and would not loiter. Hope Mum had remembered to light the "nite light" (small stubby candle to keep the frost of the WC pipework).


    Bidets, I remember my Grandparents telling folk their hotel in Spain was good and had a "footbath" in the bathroom, my Mum (who was in the travel industry , otherwise we might not have known the error) told us not to tell them that it was not actually a footbath as such, to our great amusement.


    Electric ones! well I never! There`s me thinking soft tissue is a luxury.


    Even tiny shocks should be avoided (and can be if the regs are followed)


    Anal electrification is not desirable.


    Z.


  • Sparkingchip:

    Regards Izal, one of customers paid £8 for a roll in “mint condition” in an antique shop, for display purposes only, it has pride of place on their cloakroom window sill.


    I hope that it is in a display case?  He would be right miffed if the soft tissue had run out and someone help themselves to his £8 roll ......


    Clive


  • Jokes about outside loos aside, there is a genuine  case for such things for stroke victims and similar disabling conditions. There is no reason why for example having had a stroke should also condemn you to the embarrassment of feeling uncomfortable and smelling funny, and the risk of sores and  related complications.

    There could be an argument for suitably located fused spurs in bathrooms in accommodation for  older folk as a matter of course - given we routinely locate sockets and switches in with disability in mind, maybe this should be added to the list to think about.


    M.
  • I think working under the same principle, the best option I have found is to extend a new cable from the RCD connection that is already attached to the bidet's wire, run the wire through the walls and have a plug connection in the closest room.

    Don't forget about all the general requirements in BS 7671 for bathrooms - e.g. for 30mA RCD protection for every circuit entering the bathroom (the in-lead RCD won't suffice, strictly speaking, if it's within the bathroom) and supplementary bonding too unless all the conditions for omitting it are met.

       - Andy.
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