Wet room shower

[SUNRAY]

I was at a commercial property at weekend and one of the issues to look at was intermittent RCBO tripping for a ring which feeds ladies and gents washrooms and the coridor.
Coridor has 2 SSSO's and each washroom has a DSSO and 3 FCU's for: shaver socket, hand drier and hairdryer.

This

was the problem.

To the right of the socket is one more tile and the skirting stops, and the floor level drops by 50mm or so, the next 1100mm is classed as wet room with 3 shower heads on the wall at right angles. The water marks are just visible on the skirting and the brown gundge behind the child proof cover was giving a reading of 14KΩ. The RCBO tripped within a minute of running the nearest shower and watching the water splash up off the floor.
Luckily the singles dropped from the suspended ceiling in conduit and this was easily altered to do away with the socket.

 

[winston1]

The so called child proof safety cover is dangerous. Get rid of it.
www.fatallyflawed.com

 

[chivers67]

Can't see an image

 

[winston1]

That website seems to be down. Suffice to say kids can insert those covers upside down and open the shutters. They can damage sockets as they not an authorised accessory.

 

[SUNRAY]

That website seems to be down. Suffice to say kids can insert those covers upside down and open the shutters. They can damage sockets as they not an authorised accessory.

I agree with you Winston but I think this has been done to death now.

 

[EFLImpudence]

Plus - the socket has been removed.

 

[winston1]

I agree with you Winston but I think this has been done to death now.

Maybe so but if someone is still using them perhaps they don’t know and need to be informed.

 

[JohnW2]

The so called child proof safety cover is dangerous. Get rid of it. www.fatallyflawed.com

That website seems to be down.

Try this one

Kind Regards, John

 

[winston1]

Try this one

Kind Regards, John

Thanks John.

 

[SUNRAY]

As part of the interaction with the site staff we had to undergo RAMS, part of that was a site survey and the plastic objects were raised before we even started work.

Their concern was that one was missing and the water could splash the socket. One suggestion was to fit an outdoor socket but we convinced them it really shouldn't be there.
Debrieing at the end of each day included highlighting any safety issues and the removed socket and bit of plastic were used to demonstrate the danger., this safety plug was so soft the earth pin went in with ease, a couple of woodscrews dropped straight into the live pins.