Dishwasher in downstairs cloakroom

Joy123

Provided there is space, is there any legislation / problems envisaged in installing a dishwasher in a downstairs cloakroom?

Owain_Moneysaver

No.

Special electrical regulations apply to a room with a fixed bath or shower.

Sinks/basins/WCs don't count electrically.

However before carrying clean dishes from the dishwasher through a room with a toilet in it have a read about bioaerosols and toilet plume.

https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-018-0301-9

Bexgrossman

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

No.

Special electrical regulations apply to a room with a fixed bath or shower.

Sinks/basins/WCs don't count electrically.

However before carrying clean dishes from the dishwasher through a room with a toilet in it have a read about bioaerosols and toilet plume.

https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-018-0301-9

Thanks for that but seeing as the uk doesn’t have plug socks, when would you ever carry clean dishes from the bathroom? Perhaps I’m not understanding.

OP let me know how you managed to pump the dishwasher, as I want to move my dishwasher a few metres into a pantry.

TELLIT01

Bexgrossman wrote: »

Thanks for that but seeing as the uk doesn’t have plug socks, when would you ever carry clean dishes from the bathroom? Perhaps I’m not understanding.

OP let me know how you managed to pump the dishwasher, as I want to move my dishwasher a few metres into a pantry.

I'm not sure I understand your post. The OP wants to put a dishwasher in a downstairs cloakroom (toilet). Therefore they will be carrying clean dishes out from there. The cloakroom will almost certainly have a hand basin so the dishwasher waste could be plumbed into the waste from that.

Joy123

Owain_Moneysaver wrote: »

No.

Special electrical regulations apply to a room with a fixed bath or shower.

Sinks/basins/WCs don't count electrically.

However before carrying clean dishes from the dishwasher through a room with a toilet in it have a read about bioaerosols and toilet plume.

https://aricjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13756-018-0301-9

Thank you, that is very helpful.

troffasky

TELLIT01 wrote: »

cloakroom (toilet)

I had never realised toilets were being referred to when the word "cloakroom" is used, and now a penny has dropped - the plans for my mum's 1930s house describe the downstairs toilet as a "cloakroom" and she always thought that someone had subsequently fitted a toilet in it...

ic

I could understand someone wanting to fit a washing machine in the cloakroom, but not a dishwasher. You want the dishwasher as close as possible to where the contents end up - otherwise it'll be an absolute pain in the !!!! to unload - probably faster just to wash-up at the sink!

Owain_Moneysaver

The same applies to clean clothes, of course (and many countries would regard having a washing machine and dirty clothes in a kitchen as unhygienic).

Take your clean tea-towel out of the washing machine, waft it past the toilet plume, then wipe the plates with it ...

jamie_128

why on earth do you want a dishwasher in a toilet room, sounds an absolute farce on id rather just wash pots tbh.

TELLIT01

troffasky wrote: »

I had never realised toilets were being referred to when the word "cloakroom" is used, and now a penny has dropped - the plans for my mum's 1930s house describe the downstairs toilet as a "cloakroom" and she always thought that someone had subsequently fitted a toilet in it...

The original meaning of cloakroom was somewhere to hang cloaks, and later, any coats. It now is the general term used for downstairs toilets.

McKneff

These bioplumies things is the reason i alway put my tooth brush in a cupboardd as far away as possle from the toilet as i can. have always done this since i saw a programme out it many years ago