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Shower Cubicle in a Bedroom

  • 15-03-2017 7:23pm
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21


    Hi All,

    I am seeking your advice on whether this situation breaches Building Regulations and/or National Rules for Electrical Installations in Ireland.

    The situation arises in an existing house that was constructed in the past 20 years. Are there health and safety issues with this current layout?

    Thanks.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    RoncoRider wrote: »
    Hi All,

    I am seeking your advice on whether this situation breaches Building Regulations and/or National Rules for Electrical Installations in Ireland.

    The situation arises in an existing house that was constructed in the past 20 years. Are there health and safety issues with this current layout?

    Thanks.

    You want to create an ensuite?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,725 ✭✭✭Metric Tensor


    What I think the OP seems to be talking about is just a shower standing there in the corner of the bedroom!

    I'm not sure if it's existing or proposed though?

    As for compliance .... I've no idea ... it seems wrong ... but if it was self contained with its own ceiling, extract fan and door ...

    There's no issue that I know of with a sink in a bedroom come to think of it.


  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 40,292 Mod ✭✭✭✭Gumbo


    Ventilation is the biggest issue and obviously drainage.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 RoncoRider


    To clarify, the shower is existing and as per Metric Tensor suggested; in the corner of the room. It has standard glass shower doors but no special ceiling or extract fan - just literally standing there in the corner of the bedroom.

    As it is existing I am incline to think there are no drainage issues.

    Ventilation is an issue but if there was an extract fan installed perhaps this would over come that?

    I am also curious about the electrical implications of this arrangement - is the space now deemed a bathroom? If so does health and safety dictate that there should be no electrical sockets or switches allowed in that living space?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Hoagy


    The wiring rules specify zones for baths and showers which include prefabricated shower units.

    Zone 2 extends for 600mm around the unit and then Zone 3 extends a further 2400mm.

    In Zone 2, no switches or sockets allowed, in Zone 3 switches or sockets are allowed only at SELV (safety extra low voltage <50v)

    That has been more or less the case since 1984.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21 RoncoRider


    So beyond 2400 mm (zone 3) ordinary wiring with sockets and switches are acceptable?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Hoagy


    RoncoRider wrote: »
    So beyond 2400 mm (zone 3) ordinary wiring with sockets and switches are acceptable?

    It's beyond zones 2 and 3 = 3000mm from the shower

    Edit: However the lighting circuit must be protected by a separate RCBO in the consumer unit.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,850 ✭✭✭✭Calahonda52


    Hoagy wrote: »
    It's beyond zones 2 and 3 = 3000mm from the shower

    Edit: However the lighting circuit must be protected by a separate RCBO in the consumer unit.

    Hoagy: is that RCBO requirement per bathroom or per house: e.g. a house with say 2 ensuites and a main bathroom.
    Thanks as always

    “I can’t pay my staff or mortgage with instagram likes”.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Hoagy


    Hoagy: is that RCBO requirement per bathroom or per house: e.g. a house with say 2 ensuites and a main bathroom.
    Thanks as always


    It's one per house, all bathroom circuits must be protected by a dedicated RCD.

    In practice this means an RCBO for all bathroom lights and another for bathroom heaters, for example.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 710 ✭✭✭Hoagy


    Hoagy wrote: »
    The wiring rules specify zones for baths and showers which include prefabricated shower units.

    Zone 2 extends for 600mm around the unit and then Zone 3 extends a further 2400mm.

    In Zone 2, no switches or sockets allowed, in Zone 3 switches or sockets are allowed only at SELV (safety extra low voltage <50v)

    That has been more or less the case since 1984.


    UPDATE: I had to get the book out to check Calahonda's query and I found this:

    "Where a prefabricated shower cabinet is installed in a room other than a bath or shower room, any switches or sockets must be at least 0.6mtrs from the door opening"

    Every day is a school day.


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