bathroom z2 questions

[brokenbetty]

Hi

I'm planning on adding under-cabinet lighting above the bathroom sink.

I've bought an LED lighting set on the advice of the salesman in a lighting shop and I'd like to know what my options are for installing it before I get the electrician in.

Firstly, the sink is semi-recessed into a plywood half-ledge that runs the length of the room and boxes in the pipework toilet cistern etc. Is the boxed-in area under the basin still zone 2 or is it treated the same as the area under a bath? I'd like to put the driver for the LED lights here as it will minimise disruption to tiling. The driver is IP68.

Secondly, is it acceptable to use an IP67 switch (something like this: https://www.rapidonline.com/product...ated+vandal+resistant+switches&moduleno=81479 ) instead of a pull-cord in zone 2? The LED set doesn't have a built in switch so ideally I'd have the push switch on the front of the boxing, the driver behind and the cables running through an existing channel behind the tiling.

Many thanks for your advice
Liz

 

[ColJack]

stupid question, why cabinets above the sink? first time you bend down to wash your face you're going to bump your head..

 

[brokenbetty]

stupid question, why cabinets above the sink? first time you bend down to wash your face you're going to bump your head..

The cabinet's only 15cm deep and the sink has a 15cm ledge at the back,so it doesn't extend over the sink itself.

I'll bang my head on the tap before I hit the cabinet

 

[ericmark]

Many extra low voltage lamps are supplied by inverters rather than transformers and require the load never to be removed from the inverter so only the input should be switched.

Your link failed.

Because of the rules with lights in a bathroom it is hard to say what you would be allowed to do. In the main you are better leaving everything to the electrician.

In theory there are modular lamps you can fit yourself using a plug and socket arrangement and CEE marked. In Practice I have never seen any and I would think it is something put into the regulations to allow these to be made in the future.

There are loads of options but near every one will require a registered electrician. Even battery operated units unless CE marked and designed for bathrooms in theory need a registered electrician to fit them if they are fixed.

I think Part P is daft but it is still law. So not much you can do without breaking the law.

 

[brokenbetty]

Your link failed.

Thanks - now corrected

Because of the rules with lights in a bathroom it is hard to say what you would be allowed to do. In the main you are better leaving everything to the electrician.

Hi Eric - I do intend to get an electrician to fit the lights. I'm asking questions partly because I would like to have some idea of what is allowed and also so I know what decorating jobs I can get on with now and what needs to be left until the lights are done.

Thanks
Liz