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Plug & Play Hot Tubs.

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Sparkiemike recently mentioned plug and play hot tubs that are popular these days.

I came across one recently at a holiday cottage. It was just plugged into an outdoor weatherproof socket. The hot tub was quite small as hot tubs go. It sat on flagstones on soil in the garden. It was possible to have one foot in the water and the other on a flagstone.

The earthing arrangement was P.M.E.

I was not happy with that so I TT'd the socket, and converted it to an R.C.D. type socket. The circuit is R.C.B.O. proteced at the consumer unit, but I do like belt and braces R.C.D. protection is critical situations like this.

How many D.I.Yers will install these plug and play hot tubs in the garden without considering the electrical safety aspects?

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    Partly the UK is pretty much unique in its 3m rule(*) - most 230v countries only exclude sockets in zone 1 and any places where splashing is expected. Ypu may think that if the loo really is that close the bath or shower and there is no screen in the way, then it's probably not in a great place anyway. We do seem very keen to ram showers and loos into very small spaces, especially in flats. It may be that not all of these are really suited to mains wired loo seats etc.

    Mike.

    (*) I did note in the previous draft for comment of BS7671, the 3m had magically become 2m, and that may help a few borderline cases.  but if that really passes into the final version of the 19th edition or whatever, we shall have to wait and see.

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    Partly the UK is pretty much unique in its 3m rule(*) - most 230v countries only exclude sockets in zone 1 and any places where splashing is expected. Ypu may think that if the loo really is that close the bath or shower and there is no screen in the way, then it's probably not in a great place anyway. We do seem very keen to ram showers and loos into very small spaces, especially in flats. It may be that not all of these are really suited to mains wired loo seats etc.

    Mike.

    (*) I did note in the previous draft for comment of BS7671, the 3m had magically become 2m, and that may help a few borderline cases.  but if that really passes into the final version of the 19th edition or whatever, we shall have to wait and see.

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