I am wanting to have a shaver socket installed in my bathroom. I asked an electrician I work with about this and he said you can usually feed one easily as long as you have a permanent live cable in your light fitting. I Unscrewed the ceiling rose but only have a switched live, neutral and earth. I then remembered that the downstairs lights are all connected to a junction box, so I go in the loft and also find the upstairs ones are connected to one ( see photo ). Is it possible to have a socket fitted or are you looking at a major job? Any help would be appreciated, thanks!
Advice about a shaver socket
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Do you mean a socket to connect the shaver - or for something else?
Yes, you have a permanent live and neutral at the junction box to supply a shaver socket.
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That one does say for shavers only. It might not be suitable for toothbrushes, but there are others which show toothbrushes as well.
Yes, from the junction box.
Be aware of routing the cable in the bathroom -
https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:walls
Be aware of routing the cable in the bathroom -
https://www.diynot.com/wiki/Electrics:walls
Cut the 2 pin plug off and fit a normal plug instead.
No need for any adaptor or a shaver socket.
Then what? How will he use that in the bathroom?
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He can't, but flameport reminded me of another possible solution which is to cut off the plug and hard wire it/them into a connection unit. Probably cheaper than those extortionate transformers, but much less convenient if you want to go on holiday with your shaver.
I'm sure the wife will be delighted with her electric toothbrush being charged on the bedside table, rather than the bathroom!
And a bit less safe. The extortionate transformer povides isolation which significantly reduces the risk of electric shock should the shaver / toothbrush charger suffer mis-use or damage or other mis-fortune
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Well yes, but we could apply that agreement to everything. RCD protection gets us most of the way there and would alert us to faults that wouldn't be obvious in an isolated installation.
A standard ( ie 30 mA ) RCD will not trip on a 10 mA leak through body to ground. If that 10 mA current passes across the heart then the person could die without the RCD tripping.
Hence the need for an isolated supply to the electric shaver.
A need only recognised in the UK, it seems.
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