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Bathroom appliance help please

goldenboy1818

Hi guys just after a bit of advice here please

Customer wants to build a full height cupboard and the bottom of the bath and put a washing machine and tumble dryer in it. It will have a door on the cupboard.

How would regs apply to this ? I can make it 3 x flex outlets and sfs outside the bathroom if need be rather than sockets.

The appliances would technically be within 600mm from the edge of the bath but inside a cupboard so couldn't remember if that then meant zones did not apply 

Thank you for any help here

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    If it was all rather more than 600m from the edge, and there was no socket within 2.5m, or as in this case a fixed outlet so no socket at all, , there would be no regs compliance questions.
    However, even then it might be unwise, for reasons of  damp and perhaps machines rusting away. Within 600mm, and you are on more dodgy ground, unless the machine makers actually say it is permitted.
    This is not so much about reaching with outstretched arms or dropping a portable thing into the tub. - that's the basis of the 2.5m rule,  but more about IP ratings and actually getting water poured on the kit from a misdirected shower head or a particularly splashy bather - think children playing...   

    It might be possible to eliminate that risk  that with some sort of fixed screen, and good ventilation but I can imagine  any normal MDF or chipboard type cupboard getting pretty damp and mouldy unless very careful, and  the machine rusting merrily after a few years in a poorly ventilated wet space . If you could increase the distance, that would be preferred. (I have seem machines stacked one above the other (dryer on top shelf ) to do that but its not trivial cabinet work.)

    Mike.

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    If it was all rather more than 600m from the edge, and there was no socket within 2.5m, or as in this case a fixed outlet so no socket at all, , there would be no regs compliance questions.
    However, even then it might be unwise, for reasons of  damp and perhaps machines rusting away. Within 600mm, and you are on more dodgy ground, unless the machine makers actually say it is permitted.
    This is not so much about reaching with outstretched arms or dropping a portable thing into the tub. - that's the basis of the 2.5m rule,  but more about IP ratings and actually getting water poured on the kit from a misdirected shower head or a particularly splashy bather - think children playing...   

    It might be possible to eliminate that risk  that with some sort of fixed screen, and good ventilation but I can imagine  any normal MDF or chipboard type cupboard getting pretty damp and mouldy unless very careful, and  the machine rusting merrily after a few years in a poorly ventilated wet space . If you could increase the distance, that would be preferred. (I have seem machines stacked one above the other (dryer on top shelf ) to do that but its not trivial cabinet work.)

    Mike.

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