light under bath?
 

Hello,

Happy New Year to you all.

I notice that my kitchen light is a bit off-centre and I think this is
because the bath is directly over the centre of the kitchen. Is there
a regulation regarding lights on the floor beneath a bathroom? I know
under a bath is zone 0 but I thought this stopped at the floorboards;
not beneath them.

Is there an electrocution risk if a light is directly beneath the
bath? I guess this is why my kitchen light was moved to one side. Is
there a regulation or safety reason preventing me moving the light?

Thanks.

light under bath?
 

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

Happy New Year to you all.

I notice that my kitchen light is a bit off-centre and I think this is
because the bath is directly over the centre of the kitchen. Is there
a regulation regarding lights on the floor beneath a bathroom? I know
under a bath is zone 0 but I thought this stopped at the floorboards;
not beneath them.

Is there an electrocution risk if a light is directly beneath the
bath? I guess this is why my kitchen light was moved to one side. Is
there a regulation or safety reason preventing me moving the light?

Thanks.

Therse is no electrical reason not to move the kitchen light to the centre
of the room.

Possible reasons for the light being off centre are

1. On a rewire someone did not want to remove the bath side and so off set
the light

2. On a newbuild the walls of the kitchen were not built on the electrical
first fix and the electrician could not read a plan or the walls were
altered later.

Probably lot of other reasons

Adam

light under bath?
 

On Wed, 31 Dec 2008 14:02:26 GMT, ARWadsworth wrote:

"Stephen" wrote in message
...
Hello,

Happy New Year to you all.

I notice that my kitchen light is a bit off-centre and I think this is
because the bath is directly over the centre of the kitchen. Is there
a regulation regarding lights on the floor beneath a bathroom? I know
under a bath is zone 0 but I thought this stopped at the floorboards;
not beneath them.

Is there an electrocution risk if a light is directly beneath the
bath? I guess this is why my kitchen light was moved to one side. Is
there a regulation or safety reason preventing me moving the light?

Thanks.

Therse is no electrical reason not to move the kitchen light to the centre
of the room.

Possible reasons for the light being off centre are

1. On a rewire someone did not want to remove the bath side and so off set
the light

2. On a newbuild the walls of the kitchen were not built on the electrical
first fix and the electrician could not read a plan or the walls were
altered later.

Probably lot of other reasons

The OP doesn't say specifically, but most likely that a centre point given
by two crossed diagonals doesn't correspond to a joist location, so the
light msy be more or less central in one plane but off-centre in the other
depending on joist position.

--

The Wanderer

The future isn't what it used to be.

light under bath?
 

Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Happy New Year to you all.

I notice that my kitchen light is a bit off-centre and I think this is
because the bath is directly over the centre of the kitchen. Is there
a regulation regarding lights on the floor beneath a bathroom? I know
under a bath is zone 0 but I thought this stopped at the floorboards;
not beneath them.

Is there an electrocution risk if a light is directly beneath the
bath? I guess this is why my kitchen light was moved to one side. Is
there a regulation or safety reason preventing me moving the light?

Thanks.

Best to have a light under the bath and near the shower so that any
leaks or improper use mean the water runs through the hole in the
ceiling where the light is fitted instead of bringing the ceiling down.
Fluorescent or other low energy lights are best because they are not hot
enough to shatter when water reaches them.
Do make sure water pipes are earthed to current standards!

If an uninterrupted stream of water was escaping from a plastic outlet
from a plastic bath and it reached only a live wire presumably the water
in the bath would become live but no current would flow unless an
occupant touched an earthed tap?

light under bath?
 

Stephen wrote:

Hello,

Happy New Year to you all.

I notice that my kitchen light is a bit off-centre and I think this is
because the bath is directly over the centre of the kitchen. Is there
a regulation regarding lights on the floor beneath a bathroom? I know
under a bath is zone 0 but I thought this stopped at the floorboards;
not beneath them.

Is there an electrocution risk if a light is directly beneath the
bath? I guess this is why my kitchen light was moved to one side. Is
there a regulation or safety reason preventing me moving the light?

Thanks.

No zone 0 is in the bath. Under the bath it's not zoned

light under bath?
 

Stephen wrote:
Hello,

Happy New Year to you all.

I notice that my kitchen light is a bit off-centre and I think this is
because the bath is directly over the centre of the kitchen. Is there
a regulation regarding lights on the floor beneath a bathroom? I know
under a bath is zone 0 but I thought this stopped at the floorboards;
not beneath them.

Is there an electrocution risk if a light is directly beneath the
bath? I guess this is why my kitchen light was moved to one side. Is
there a regulation or safety reason preventing me moving the light?

Thanks.

as said no regulations on it. If it were mine I'd use a class 1 metal
earthed fitting though, that way if the bath overflows no-one gets
electrocuted.


NT