Light switches in a bathroom

[EFLImpudence]

There are sockets in bathrooms in Europe - and, of course, they are allowed in large bathrooms in the UK..

 

[scousespark]

That may be so but I wouldn't do it. My arm is longer than 600mm and I can reach 1.5 metres from a shower!

Some people, usually women, seem to have an avertion to pull switches. A stern talk about the dangers of mixing water and electricity will usually overcome it.

Who would reach 1.5 metres when showering to turn a light on or off?

What a patronising view of your female customers. You could just tell your customers (men and women) to dry their hands before switching the light on or off.

 

[scousespark]

Two of my prievous houses had switches outside the door. One of my first jobs was to replace them with pull cords inside. Hate it when someone looking for the hall switch plunges one into darkness while in the shower or sitting on the throne.

Could you not shout for the person to switch your light back on?

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Two of my prievous houses had switches outside the door. One of my first jobs was to replace them with pull cords inside. Hate it when someone looking for the hall switch plunges one into darkness while in the shower or sitting on the throne.

Do you normally have people unfamiliar with the layout of your home, wandering about turning lights on and off?

The only valid reason to ensure the switch is inside the room, is where you have kids who might turn the light out for a bit of a joke.

 

[Taylortwocities]

I would travel many miles to be the person who plunges Whinnie into soapy darkness.

 

[winston1]

Who would reach 1.5 metres when showering to turn a light on or off?

Quite a lot of people if it was too dark.

 

[Harry Bloomfield]

Quite a lot of people if it was too dark.

I don't think anyone could sensibly span 1.5m. I dislike pull cords intensely, they are so unpredictable as to where the cord is and so difficult to find in the dark. In the dark you can maybe touch the cord, but the cord then swings uncontrollably, leaving you trying to catch it. I've lost count of the number of pull cord switches, where someone has pulled so hard they have broken the cord, broken the switch itself, or managed to pull it off the ceiling.

 

[scousespark]

Quite a lot of people if it was too dark.

I am 5’ 10” (1.78m) so would say around average height. To reach 1.5m, from a shower, would be such a stretch I’d just get out of the shower. I also have the sense of sight so would know it was dark when I entered the room.

 

[JohnD]

I also have the sense of sight

if you didn't, you wouldn't need to turn the lights on.

 

[scousespark]

if you didn't, you wouldn't need to turn the lights on.

That adds a lot to the thread. I shower for a few minutes. I don’t recall daylight ending as I was in the shower.

 

[opps]

Going off at a slight tangent-

Does anyone know what has happened to the two major producers of contactless (behind tile) light switches?


Sensorbility have closed their online store and don't reply to emails or calls.

http://www.sensor.co.uk/


Taptile products are still available via resellers but their website is inaccessible.

https://www.taptilecontrols.com/

Looks like I am gonna have to stick with the crappy PIR switch that the GF had fitted last week. Actually, she is gonna have to get the electrician to fit a new one- the current one fell apart when I tried to pull it out of the hole yesterday.

 

[crystal ball]

Do you normally have people unfamiliar with the layout of your home, wandering about turning lights on and off?

The only valid reason to ensure the switch is inside the room, is where you have kids who might turn the light out for a bit of a joke.

Maybe its a hostel on the side

 

[clifford1]

You could have an outdoor waterproof switch. As presumably they are safe to use in pouring rain you could mount it inside the shower if you really wanted.

 

[flameport]

Taptile products are still available via resellers but their website is inaccessible.
https://www.taptilecontrols.com/

Their website offline since approx. December 2018, and hadn't been updated for years anyway - last news item on it was from 2012.
Their twitter account and Linkedin profile both deleted.
The company that traded as Taptile was dissolved on 24 May 2016, over 3 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180821002838/http://taptilecontrols.com/press.htm
https://www.ribaproductselector.com...of-gpeg-international-ltd/27461/overview.aspx
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05355242

 

[opps]

Their website offline since approx. December 2018, and hadn't been updated for years anyway - last news item on it was from 2012.
Their twitter account and Linkedin profile both deleted.
The company that traded as Taptile was dissolved on 24 May 2016, over 3 years ago.

https://web.archive.org/web/20180821002838/http://taptilecontrols.com/press.htm
https://www.ribaproductselector.com...of-gpeg-international-ltd/27461/overview.aspx
https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/05355242

Thanks.

That might explain why the Taptile products are so cheap now.

Shame, the products worked well.

I wonder why no one else makes similar products.