Bathroom wall light - EICR

Doing an EICR and there's this wall light next to the washbasin. Outside zone 2, but something I wouldn't install in a bathroom myself.
Wondering how others would code it. C3 or C2?

seasickstevie said:

Doing an EICR and there's this wall light next to the washbasin. Outside zone 2, but something I wouldn't install in a bathroom myself. .... Wondering how others would code it. C3 or C2?

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Assuming that it is correctly earthed, and given that it is not 'within zones', then I would have thought you could only code it at all if you could argue that it was not suitable for use (anywhere) in a bathroom environment - otherwise, what regulation could you cite as justification for your (any) coding?

Kind Regards, John

That's the kind of answer I was looking for.
When you look at light fittings in their packaging, it generally says either suitable or not suitable for bathrooms/shower rooms.
I certainly wouldn't expect the manufacturer to describe this as suitable for bathroom use.
But as it's there, out of the zones, and the custard is happy, and it's earthed, I think I'll just leave it there.

seasickstevie said:

That's the kind of answer I was looking for. When you look at light fittings in their packaging, it generally says either suitable or not suitable for bathrooms/shower rooms. I certainly wouldn't expect the manufacturer to describe this as suitable for bathroom use.

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Quite so. I wouldn't expect to see a statement about "suitability/non-suitability for bathrooms" for a product that one would not usually expect to be put into a bathroom. Indeed, even for accessories that often are in bathrooms (shower/fan isolators, light switches, FCUs etc. I'm not at all sure that you'd find a statement about 'suitability for a bathroom', either.

seasickstevie said:

But as it's there, out of the zones, and the custard is happy, and it's earthed, I think I'll just leave it there.

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That's certainly what I'd do if I were in your position.

Of course, it also needs to be RCD-protected - but if it's not, then it would presumably be the absence of that protection (of 'a circuit supplying a bathroom'), not the light, that you would code.

Kind Regards, John

Yes, whole property on an '18th edition' split consumer unit.
I'll leave as is.

The reg in the 14th and 15th went something like, fit a lamp holder with a Home Office skirt or preferably an enclosed fitting.