On 30 Jun, 13:27, "Doctor Drivel" wrote:
"Owain" wrote in message

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tony sayer wrote:
Now my French missus has taken to using a hair straightener in the
bathroom most of the time, and to that end has an extension lead going
in there!.
Now the greatest risk that is when in the dark I tripped over the lead
and went arse overhead!.
Now over en France, there its common practice to have power sockets in
bathrooms and no one it seems has been killed while using them. Now as
we have RCD protection etc why cannot we have them here anybody any real
reasons or is it just nanny state UK?......

Under the forthcoming 17th Edition IEE Regs such continental perversities
as sockets in bathrooms may be permitted.

With RCD protection I'm sure. And then the bodge it DIYer will connect one
without and kaboom.

Why?

My father used his electric shaver attached to a 2 pin unsheilded
socket in the bathroom for at least 20 years. It was arranged in such
a way that he could have rropped the other end of the lead into a
basin full of water. There was no RCD in the whole house. Never was
there a kaboom. I don't say it couldn't have happened, just that the
presence of a socket doesn't mean it will.