I made two of these wet tables for my vet surgery. They serve as a normal work surface with the lid down and when raised we have a grill and a shallow sink, with just a strainer, not a plug in the waste so at most the surface is wet, never full of water.
On each we have a thermostatic shower to rinse off local areas of pets, like a cut foot. The patients are sometimes asleep, so the thermostatic control prevents scalding.
There is a shower check valve at the hose outlet and double check valves in the H&C supply to the shower valve.
We had a water board inspection and the inspector was obviously looking for this item on clinical furniture as it is very common in surgeries. Although any water simply runs away, it is a category 5 waste and he wants the shower not to be able to go within 30mm of the rim of the steel. The check valves were not deemed sufficient
Others have used a pre rinse tap / spray from a commercial kitchen but they don't have the lifting bar top and even then, it reduces the functionality of the shower considerably.
I've had a few thoughts but none particularly easy/attractive.
We've no height for an alternative header tank.
I did wonder about
1) Altering the sink and cabinet to provide a lower spill over height and extending the lift off grill to prevent the shower head going through onto the base
2) Installing some sort of pumped shower from a low level tank with air gap, within the cupboard. We only need short bursts of water so it would only need to be very modest. Something from camping or caravanning perhaps.
Would anyone have any good ideas that I can put to the inspector as a possible solution?
On each we have a thermostatic shower to rinse off local areas of pets, like a cut foot. The patients are sometimes asleep, so the thermostatic control prevents scalding.
There is a shower check valve at the hose outlet and double check valves in the H&C supply to the shower valve.
We had a water board inspection and the inspector was obviously looking for this item on clinical furniture as it is very common in surgeries. Although any water simply runs away, it is a category 5 waste and he wants the shower not to be able to go within 30mm of the rim of the steel. The check valves were not deemed sufficient
Others have used a pre rinse tap / spray from a commercial kitchen but they don't have the lifting bar top and even then, it reduces the functionality of the shower considerably.
I've had a few thoughts but none particularly easy/attractive.
We've no height for an alternative header tank.
I did wonder about
1) Altering the sink and cabinet to provide a lower spill over height and extending the lift off grill to prevent the shower head going through onto the base
2) Installing some sort of pumped shower from a low level tank with air gap, within the cupboard. We only need short bursts of water so it would only need to be very modest. Something from camping or caravanning perhaps.
Would anyone have any good ideas that I can put to the inspector as a possible solution?