Dog shower too close to light switch

[Murdochcat]

A ceiling mounted pull cord light switch would be a better option, it's only plastic conduit so should be easy enough.

But simply replacing the existing switch with an ip rated unit would take minutes if the OP wants piece of mind

 

[JohnW2]

I cannot see the bigger picture of the layout. ... I don't know what constitutes this shower. ... But, if there is a heater, a hose, a spray and a means of placing the animal and collecting the water, that's a shower, isn't it?

As you say, we haven't got a totally clear picture. However, as I've said, all we've seen so far is a water hearwith two hose connectors (presumabky one for 'in'and the other for 'out') which I assume would be attached to a hose when in use, and what looks like a builder's bucket (on its side) below, which I guess is to put the dog in. If that's all there is then, no, I don't think I would regardthat as 'a shower'. As you go on to write ...

If not, and it is just the same as a tap on a basin, why are we debating the nearby light switch?

 

[Donetello1561]

I cannot see the bigger picture of the layout.

I don't know what constitutes this shower.

But, if there is a heater, a hose, a spray and a means of placing the animal and collecting the water, that's a shower, isn't it?

If not, and it is just the same as a tap on a basin, why are we debating the nearby light switch?

Hose about 8ft will be on the outlet side dogs will mainly be having feet,legs and belly cleaned of mud from the fields outside the garage doors.
Dogs are Tamaskan so would have great trouble putting them in a bucket

 

[securespark]

Two buckets?

 

[JohnW2]

But simply replacing the existing switch with an ip rated unit would take minutes if the OP wants piece of mind

[my previous comment about "IP rated" again applies.]

As you say, it would only take minutes to install a switch with an adequately high IP rating. However, as I said, IF the room in question qualifies as a "location containing a bath or shower" (and no-one really seems to know whether it does) then the advice you are giving would result in a non-compliant situation, since, as far as I am aware, one is not meant (per BS7671) to have any sort of switch in close proximity to a shower (i.e. in Zone 2), no matter what it's IP rating. Am I wrong?

 

[ebee]

I had a similar thing occur on a job a few years back.
A purposely built kennel for housing ten dogs.
long corridors front and rear opening to front door and rear gate with an inside room in each kennel for the dog to sleep/rest and an "outside area" for each kennel for the dog to socialise with adjoining neighbours thru a mesh fence.
So each dog could decide if it wanted peace and quiet and dark or if it wanted to see and hear the rest of the pack.
Large "Rest room" at the end for staff to have a brew or a natter and a perspex screen in one corner around a showering area for doggy.
I decided it could qualify as a location containing a fixed bath or shower - some might agree and some might not.
However I decided that the over riding situation was location and fittings suitable for the location anyway, therefore the screens were made of fixed positions and all electrical items outside of touch reach or spray by any persons using it to shower a dog or hose down their welly boots etc so that by any stretch of the imagination any person would find it pretty much impossible even if they were determined enough to contort their own bodies to to simultaneously touch or spray any live sockets or switches etc.

The over riding consideration was to make it comply with the sprit of the regs rather than merely just being in line with any regs or rules written.

OK some determined imbecile could decide to connect a long hose pipe and bring it into any location and we can not prevent that but in most practical ways we does our best!

 

[ebee]

Hook, line and sinker

What the heck is implied by that statement? - The Mind Boggles!