whirlpool jacuzzi bath

fluke-it

Hello
Does anyone know the proper method of wiring one of these baths, do they need an isolator switch and/or a waterproof socket?

fishdog

Does anyone know the proper method of wiring one of these baths, do they need an isolator switch and/or a waterproof socket?

You not permitted to install a socket in a bathroom (except for shaver socket) even if it is waterproof.

What I did in the past was I had local isolation in the form of a switched spur outlet outside the bathroom in the same way that you would install an instantanious shower isolation switch. Alternatively you could have a string pull switch within the bathroom for local isolation.

fluke-it

yea thats sound, I think i'll go with a 20amp dp switch.

fishdog

That would do it from a local isolation point of view.

It would be good to have it fused down also with a spur outlet. The ones I connected in the past were quite a small load.

Good luck with it.

colmmcgettrick

If there is a better location for posting this question, please advise.
This is an add on question which relates to apower shower, where bath pump was on the came circuit.

Recentily had my house certified and in doing so it was noticed there was an extra wire feeding off the shower circuit going down to the bath, but the bath panel was impossing to remove.
so this wire was disconnected.

Last weekend I removed the impossible to remove bath panel, and found that the jacuzzi type bath had a pump (ESPA looks like 75m) installed under the bath wired into a (13a) FCU switched box.

Figured out that the pump worked and used it to clean the jets, before disconnecting it again.
It is more important to have a clean bath than a working Jacuzzi.

I want to understand what should be done electrically, if I want to use the Jacuzzi. As my other very real choice wuld be to replace it
with a standard bath, as I could do that work myself.

When the power to the bath pump was cut, it was not known what was at the other end of that cable, but now this is known, I want to gain some understanding of what an electrician would say needs to happen.

Originally the isolation switch outside the entrance to the bathroom,
cut power to the shower and teh bath pump, with a 13A FCU with swithc betweent the two, but this switch could not be seen due to the bath panel.


The person who installed ( NOT ME) the power shower and pumped bath, whom I must assume was an electrician must have thought what they were doing was right ? so that the isolation switch at the entrance to the bathroom cut the power to both the shower and the bath pump.

The next electrician when certifying the house , could not see under the bath due to the impossible to remove bath panel so error on the side of caution and cut the power to the punp.


Does the Bath pump need a seperate wireing and isolation switch outside of the bathroom and a seperate connection to the service panel ?


I do have to get an eletrician to seutp a master slave circuit in the service panel for the two showers in the
house, so they can not be turned on at the same time.

Please note I have no intension of doing any of this work myself as it would invalidae my home insurance while also being illegal. But I would like to be able to recognise safe work when it is in place.


Your advice insight appreciated.
Regards Colm

The limit of my problem solving was reached when I used a multimeter to trouble shoot the shower and identify a faulty solenoid
which I replaced and after bleeding the air from the motor and allowed any old but good shower to fully funciton again.