Adding another light “gang” to my bathroom lights

[Oliverr]

Hi all
I’m refurbishing my bathroom soon and replacing the floor. While it’s up, I’m planning to install a few IP-rated in-floor uplights. I want them on the same circuit as the existing bathroom lighting but controlled separately using a 2-gang switch.
Currently there’s just a one gang switch, controlling the ceiling lights (feed goes to the switch)

I’ll be swapping the switch to a 2gang switch ,, linking the COMs between gangs, then taking the new uplight feed into L1 on the second gang. Neutrals and CPCs will be joined in the back box with Wagos where they were originally.

I’ll probably be daisy chaining the lights (like you would wire downlights)
Just looking to sanity check to confirm there won’t be any issues … I’m confident with the practical side, just want to be sure the setup is sound.

Hope I’ve made this clear ha ha
Cheers.

 

[securespark]

Pictures of the wiring in your bathroom light switch would be helpful, just to make absolutely sure.

 

[FrodoOne]

Pictures, voltage details and the floor placement of the proposed "IP-rated in-floor uplights" would also be of interest,
considering the UK regulations concerning the placement of 230V "devices" in "wet areas" - such as Bathrooms.

 

[Oliverr]

Pictures, voltage details and the floor placement of the proposed "IP-rated in-floor uplights" would also be of interest,
considering the UK regulations concerning the placement of 230V "devices" in "wet areas" - such as Bathrooms.

Currently away from home. The lights are 12V, IP65 Rated. Will be placed near baths & around the bathroom floor.

Switch has 3 wires coming into it, feed in, feed out, and to the downlights. I'll be adding a new cable for the new uprights.

 

[blup]

Sounds ok in principle but why would you put lights in a floor?

 

[Oliverr]

Sounds ok in principle but why would you put lights in a floor?

Architectural lighting - to light up old brick work. & tiles

 

[Taylortwocities]

The lights are 12V, IP65 Rated. Will be placed near baths & around the bathroom floor.

Some concerns here. please familarise yourself with regulations and requirements for electrical devices inside bathroom zones.
To comply with Wiring Regulations the 12v power supplies may need to be SELV and the circuit protected by a 30mA RCD.

https://electrical.theiet.org/media/1450/section-701.pdf

To comply with Part P, any electrical work inside bathroom zones is NOTIFIABLE to the local authority, unless you are a member of NAPIT, NICEIC etc you will need to have a registered electrician do this work.

 

[Oliverr]

Some concerns here. please familarise yourself with regulations and requirements for electrical devices inside bathroom zones.
To comply with Wiring Regulations the 12v power supplies may need to be SELV and the circuit protected by a 30mA RCD.

https://electrical.theiet.org/media/1450/section-701.pdf

To comply with Part P, any electrical work inside bathroom zones is NOTIFIABLE to the local authority, unless you are a member of NAPIT, NICEIC etc you will need to have a registered electrician do this work.

Can I do it then an electrician can sign it off? Room is protected by a 30mA rcd.

 

[flameport]

Can I do it then an electrician can sign it off?

No.
Members of schemes can only notify their own work.

There is supposedly some 'third party notifier' effort that NAPIT did or possibly still does provide, but it was a pile of junk which pretty much no one signed up to and would be far more expensive and time consuming than just paying a scheme member to do the work.

 

[Taylortwocities]

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[SUNRAY]

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Out of curiosity I clicked on your link and gave it a try for an area I know very well.
On just the first page I know one is in prison, one has retired and another is dead. Oh boy

 

[Taylortwocities]

Out of curiosity I clicked on your link and gave it a try for an area I know very well.
On just the first page I know one is in prison, one has retired and another is dead. Oh boy

Don't shoot the messenger. That site is run by "Electrical Competent Person Scheme Operators Ltd - 2025" Complain to them!

Says it all, really. Glad i don't pay my money to any of them any more!

 

[SUNRAY]

Don't shoot the messenger. That site is run by "Electrical Competent Person Scheme Operators Ltd - 2025" Complain to them!

Says it all, really. Glad i don't pay my money to any of them any more!

I'm far from shooting anybody.

I know a very different sort of service but it took 3 years to get me off check a trade as a white goods engineer and the worst of it, they had no records of why I was on there in the first place