Bathroom unit interior shaving socket

aliasojo

I want to buy the kind of interior shaver socket you get in some fitted bathroom furniture ranges but I cant find it anywhere. It's kinda triangular shaped so it fits in the corner of the unit.

It's a silver/grey shaver socker with a built in low voltage light switch so you can operate any cabinet lights you might have.

Utopia do one but wont sell it seperately, it only comes in their mirror wall units. Mereway and Rhoper Rhodes also do them but I dont know if you can buy them separately, I can't find them online anywhere.

Any ideas?

aliasojo

Shameless bump.

Where's CKDesigner and mwillets and co when you need them? :rotfl:

shirlgirl2004

Take it you didn't have any joy? I'm looking for one of these too.

To buy a cabinet with one of these in is £300+ and they tend to be large cabinets. I'd rather choose a cabinet and then fit the shaver socket. The alternative is to buy a cabinet and chop a wedge out of the back and put a standard shaver socket in but I don't want to have to do that.

aliasojo

I gave up eventually because the cost of them was around £160. I couldn't bring myself to pay that for a shaver socket so I got an ordinary socket, drilled a small hole in the cabinet back for the cable to come through and surface mounted it.

keith969

I hope you fitted a shaving socket with built in transformer rather than a plain socket?

aliasojo

It's a dedicated MK Shaver socket.

http://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/MKK0701.html

andrew-b

Mounting in unit will take up a fair bit of cupboard space (2 inch deep backing box for the MK one) and not really ideal if you want to actually shave plugged into it especially if the cupboard door is your mirror. Got ours flush mounted in the wall instead at a more usable height for shaving whilst plugged into it (for when i forget to charge up). Don't overlook the option of adapter in socket elsewhere in the house.. much more MSE!

Before i get knocked down in fora flame ...i should point out it's part p notifiable being in bathroom.

keystone

andrew-b wrote: »

Before i get knocked down in fora flame ...i should point out it's part p notifiable being in bathroom.

No flames from me :cool: but if its a like for like replacement on an existing circuit its not Part P notifiable and it can possibly be argued it doesn't even need a MWC (now theres a cue for a warm discussion!! .)

@ Aliasojo

Is it connected to an existing cable provided for a shaver socket? If its a new cable then Andrew is 100% correct and it should have been put in by a sparks.

Cheers

aliasojo

It was done by an electrician....all I did was drill the hole and surface mounted the box, he did the rest including the ufh, lighting and fan.

keystone

aliasojo wrote: »

It was done by an electrician....all I did was drill the hole and surface mounted the box, he did the rest including the ufh, lighting and fan.

Great stuff - all taken care of then.

Cheers

shirlgirl2004

andrew-b wrote: »

Mounting in unit will take up a fair bit of cupboard space (2 inch deep backing box for the MK one) and not really ideal if you want to actually shave plugged into it especially if the cupboard door is your mirror. Got ours flush mounted in the wall instead at a more usable height for shaving whilst plugged into it (for when i forget to charge up). Don't overlook the option of adapter in socket elsewhere in the house.. much more MSE!

Before i get knocked down in fora flame ...i should point out it's part p notifiable being in bathroom.

I think like most people we want the socket for our toothbrushes so shutting the cabinet door whilst charging isn't an issue. I guess I could just buy a cheap cabinet then I wouldn't mind drilling holes in it but it would take a lot of room inside. I do want an integral light too though.

I don't want one outside of the cupboard because I don't want toothbrushes on display whilst charging.

Oh decisions.