Routing electricity cable along bathroom floor

KimYeovil

Is it legal to route the cables for electricity circuits along the floor under the bath? Since that is where any splashes happen to pool this seems a little unsatisfactory.

Are there not safety laws that prohibit laying cables in pools of water?

ormus

unless your ceilings are waterproof (very unlikely) there wont be any pools of water collecting there.
the water will go through the ceiling into the room below.
anyways cables are insulated & normally kept directly off the floor. my cables run directly under the bath.

dane-katie

my partner just said there is nothing in the regulations to say "legal" "illegal"

although reccomendation is not to

27col

It seems to me, that any concerns that you have, should be addressed to ensuring that there there is no likelihood of leaks occurring under the bath. There is no reason why a well fitted and plumbed bath should ever have a leak. As has already been said, the water from any potential leak is not going to build up under the bath. It is going to soak into the ceiling below. Having said that, if the cables can be installed elsewhere, then, why not. There is no advantage to be had by installing under the bath,one way or another. When I worked as an electrician it would not have occurred to me to avoid the bath area particularly. I would have assumed that the plumber was as competent at his work as I was at mine. Quite often the position of a downstairs light fitting would make it necessary to install cables under the bath. It was just the luck of the draw.

KimYeovil

In practice, that is where the water pools. (It's a bathroom. Therefore water gets on the floor without there being leaks.) The cables are not suspended - they just lie along the floor. And the cables are all to do with this flat (on one floor) - nothing to do with downstairs.

The most annoying thing is the bathroom was stripped to carry out the work - no suite in place so nothing preventing access to the walls to run them inside.

brig001

Our downstairs loo is below the bath and has a ceiling light. I don't see how else you could wire that, so it's not "illegal". Having said that, if there was no need to go that way, I probably wouldn't, just because it is harder to get the floor up if there was a need to work on that circuit.

HTH,
Bri.