Hi,
I have a "summer heating element" to connect to a new towel rail in the bathroom. The supply (via a timer and 30mA RCD fused spur) is the other side of the wall on which the rail is mounted in a bedroom cupboard. Convention would say sink a single gang box in the wall by the rail and use a flex oulet. Cutting through a tile is messy and it would be far simpler to just pass the flex through the wall (just drill a hole a little larger to comforatbly accept the cable, seal round the flex) and connect up on the other side. To me it seems safer as there are NO connections whatsoever in the bathroom and if the heater needed replacing it could be disconnected in the cupboad.
Anyone care to comment on whether the simpler arrangement is valid?
I have a "summer heating element" to connect to a new towel rail in the bathroom. The supply (via a timer and 30mA RCD fused spur) is the other side of the wall on which the rail is mounted in a bedroom cupboard. Convention would say sink a single gang box in the wall by the rail and use a flex oulet. Cutting through a tile is messy and it would be far simpler to just pass the flex through the wall (just drill a hole a little larger to comforatbly accept the cable, seal round the flex) and connect up on the other side. To me it seems safer as there are NO connections whatsoever in the bathroom and if the heater needed replacing it could be disconnected in the cupboad.
Anyone care to comment on whether the simpler arrangement is valid?