Shower building regs

maintenanceman

southcoastrgi wrote: »

she doesn't have to you are wrong

Personally I would. Wouldn't take the opinion of a plumber on an issue that might involve an electrician. Mt point is tha there are 2 trades involved here. a n electrician and a plumber. If a plumber is willing to take full reponsibility for any future issues over an electrical fault caused by a leak.. well that's a day I would like to see.
In those instance you will have the plumber blaming the electrician and the electrician blaming the plumber.

Clioterus

southcoastrgi wrote: »

she doesn't have to you are wrong

maintenanceman wrote: »

I don't think anyone will get fried because of RCD and RCB'o but I still would ask the local authority building control for their advice. But hey that's just me. If they would give you the OK.

She's a he lol. I don't have a problem with the rcd unit this will trip out what about the main feed at the back of it? House was rewired ten years ago.

southcoastrgi

maintenanceman wrote: »

Personally I would. Wouldn't take the opinion of a plumber on an issue that might involve an electrician. Mt point is tha there are 2 trades involved here. a n electrician and a plumber. If a plumber is willing to take full reponsibility for any future issues over an electrical fault caused by a leak.. well that's a day I would like to see.
In those instance you will have the plumber blaming the electrician and the electrician blaming the plumber.

unless the OP is having new lights/fan/electric shower then there is no need to get a sparkie in so there will only be one trade on site if the OP gets a good bathroom fitter

there is no electrical resrictions on having a fuse box under a bathroom, the same way as there is no resriction on running a pipe above a fuse box if the pipe is in the ceiling apart from keeping it 35mm away from any cables, alot of new builds have the fuse box in the cloak room & this uses the same soil stack for the upstairs bathroom

Clioterus wrote: »

She's a he lol. I don't have a problem with the rcd unit this will trip out what about the main feed at the back of it? House was rewired ten years ago.

sorry Clio my mistake

Clioterus

southcoastrgi wrote: »

unless the OP is having new lights/fan/electric shower then there is no need to get a sparkie in so there will only be one trade on site if the OP gets a good bathroom fitter

there is no electrical resrictions on having a fuse box under a bathroom, the same way as there is no resriction on running a pipe above a fuse box if the pipe is in the ceiling apart from keeping it 35mm away from any cables, alot of new builds have the fuse box in the cloak room & this uses the same soil stack for the upstairs bathroom



sorry Clio my mistake

No worries thanks for your help all the info I need cheers.

maintenanceman

A plumber stating what the regs are for a sparkies work, that's a new one. I really would like to know from a any (qualified) sparkies out there for there just for future reference on just such a situation. I might be surprised,

southcoastrgi

what don't you understand from this thread, there isn't any sparkies work involved

the most worrying thing the OP has to deal with is your incorrect advice,
I really think you should change your name as I would be seriously concerned about you doing any maintenance in my house

missesther

If it helps, my house is ex-council and they placed the bathroom directly above the fusebox. The shower/bath is right on top. It has leaked and no issues. We had it all fixed and the electrics done when we moved in and so far everything is fine. The house has been standing for thirty odd years with no history of fires, as far as I am aware anyway.

maintenanceman

Wow. so you don't advise a concerned member of thge public noy to get the opinion of a qualified electrician to allay any concerns that a shower is placed over their c/u. So as a plumber you are taking the role of an electrician and advising that that is OK??. Really. I haven't advised any course of action, or any apart from caution and have strongly advised the O.P to take proffessional advise from both building control and qualified electricians and yet your attitude seems quite errm "lacking". S.C.R.G.I it's a shame as you seem like a contributor on here so don't let yourself down.

southcoastrgi

I'm not letting myself down at all, i just know what i am talking about & if someone gives incorrect advice then i will tell them, whoever they are, in the same way as i will click the thanks button if they give good advice, this is MSE & you are telling the OP to pay a sparkie for their advice (as they aren't going to do it for free & neither should they), i have seen consumer units in all kinds of places, yes there are locations where they shouldn't be fitted, however in a different room & on a different floor to a bathroom isn't one of them.

so answer me a question
if a plumber installs a bathroom & there is no electrics involved does he ask a sparkie ?
if a sparkie installs a consumer unit & there is no plumbing involved does he ask a plumber ?
there are thousands of consumer units installed right next to gas meters is this wrong incase there is a gas leak or the cu catches fire ?

I'll ask you another question
which do you think is more dangerious & likely to cause a problem a cu in a diff room & on a diff floor but below a bathroom or a normal 3 pin socket 3 meters away from zone 1 in a bathroom ?

maintenanceman

wow you must be more bored than me.
Go back to original question.