I moved into a brand new house a few months ago.
In my bathroom I have a bath with an electric shower above it, an opening window and an extractor fan.
My extractor fan switch is located outside the door like a light switch (I expected an isolator and it does have a red mark on the switch and a fuse socket next to the switch so I guess this is it). The light switch is on a pull cord inside the bathroom.
The two things work completely independently. I have to physically turn on the extractor fan on the "switch" outside the door then turn on the light pull, when I turn the light pull off the extractor never turns off (which I would expect).
Is this normal? I think something’s been wired a bit strangely, I would have expected an extractor fan isolator above the door not like a light switch to the side of it, and then the pull cord inside to operate both the fan and light?
Are there any building regulations which support my idea or has what’s been done perfectly fine? If it’s not, I can get my builder to rectify it, but I need to know what I can do.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Andrew
In my bathroom I have a bath with an electric shower above it, an opening window and an extractor fan.
My extractor fan switch is located outside the door like a light switch (I expected an isolator and it does have a red mark on the switch and a fuse socket next to the switch so I guess this is it). The light switch is on a pull cord inside the bathroom.
The two things work completely independently. I have to physically turn on the extractor fan on the "switch" outside the door then turn on the light pull, when I turn the light pull off the extractor never turns off (which I would expect).
Is this normal? I think something’s been wired a bit strangely, I would have expected an extractor fan isolator above the door not like a light switch to the side of it, and then the pull cord inside to operate both the fan and light?
Are there any building regulations which support my idea or has what’s been done perfectly fine? If it’s not, I can get my builder to rectify it, but I need to know what I can do.
Thanks for any help you can give.
Andrew