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Default Kitchen lights under bath room - regulations?

I know about the zones for electrical installations within the
bathroom, but how does this relate to lights in the room below the
bathroom?

I'm shortly going to be installing flush eyeball downlighters in my
kitchen, and with the planned locations there will be one underneath
the bath, one near the toilet and one near the bathroom sink.

I do intend to make the bathroom floor above almost completely water
proof (treated boards, painted over with bitumen, plastic sheets ontop
of that with double bonded seals at the joins and then tiles on top of
all that).

What do other people do in this situation? Should I just install LV
downlighters as they would be safer? Do I need to install lights with
and IP rating, and if so, which rating?
Thanks again for any and all advice.

Seri

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On 10 Jan 2005 06:28:41 -0800, "Seri" strung
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I know about the zones for electrical installations within the
bathroom, but how does this relate to lights in the room below the
bathroom?

???

The zones are for things you can touch whilst in the bath, not about
getting wires wet. I very much doubt you could touch the kitchen
lights whilst stood in the bath.

And as for LV spots instead, how do you think they work? There is
still 230V running to them under the floor.

Install any lights you want in the kitchen, and don't ask any more
daft questions. ;-)
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I suspected this was the case, but rather find out this way before I go
doing the work...

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"Seri" wrote in message
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I suspected this was the case, but rather find out this way before I go
doing the work...


In regards to the new regulations, exactly how would anyone actually
determine when any electrical work was either started or completed ?

obviously, if something's installed technically outwith the regs it'll be
visually apparent but how will anyone know if a jobs been started
before or after Jan 01 05 ?



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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 15:23:03 GMT, "[news]" strung together
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In regards to the new regulations, exactly how would anyone actually
determine when any electrical work was either started or completed ?

What's that got to do with this? The project here isn't within the
scope of Part P.

obviously, if something's installed technically outwith the regs it'll be
visually apparent but how will anyone know if a jobs been started
before or after Jan 01 05 ?

They won't.
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"Lurch" wrote
| What's that got to do with this? The project here isn't within the
| scope of Part P.

It is, because it's a kitchen.

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On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 21:12:09 -0000, "Owain"
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| What's that got to do with this? The project here isn't within the
| scope of Part P.

It is, because it's a kitchen.

Ah, forgot about that bit. I was thinking 'not in a bathroom so it's
ok'.

Just ignore Part P, it's easier.
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Regarding the LV lights... I was contemplating having the transformers
outside of the range of the bath/toilet/sink so that only 12v was
running under these parts.

As it turns out, this is looking like the answer anyway as SWMBO has
taken a shine to a set of downlighters for the kitchen.

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