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Monday, April 12, 2010 11:07:35 PM
Home Safety advice for householders and hoteliers in Bedford. Any Electrician around the Bedford area will tell you that the most dangerous room in any house or hotel is the bathroom and shower.
In either of these wet rooms you have the potentially dangerous combination of water and electricity. Water and electricity are possibly dangerous on their own but are lethal when mixed together. The effects of electricity are more sever when it comes into contact with wet skin and the body’s resistance is lowered.
There are therefore a number of legal requirements and commonsense rules that apply to the use of electricity in the bathroom.
Electric sockets are illegal in any bathroom in the UK, unless they are fitted at least three metres from the bath or shower.
The exception is an electric shaver outlets, which must be fitted sufficiently far from water sources so as to avoid splashes.
Light shades should ideally be of the enclosed type or far enough away from the reach of people when they are wet after bathing or going into the shower.
Light switches should ideally operate by natural or manmade fibre pull cords as normal switches pose danger from wet hands.
The safest from of heating for the bathroom and shower is central heated radiators, however, especially in a number of older houses wall mounted electric heaters are still used.
Water heaters that are located in the wet rooms should legally be permanently hardwired and not attached to a plug.
Electric heaters like light switches, should be controlled by a pull cord to prevent electrocution from wet hands.
Electric showers must be fitted to their own, separate electrical circuit, connected directly from the electric metre.
Under no circumstances should you take electrical appliances into the bathroom or shower, objects such a hairdryers, curling tongues and stereo equipment are very dangerous in this environment.
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