Shaver and toothbrush sockets

[Crakkers]

Hello!

Bathroom cabinets with shaver and toothbrush sockets are rediculously expensive and also i am struggling to find one that will fit the space!

Im now looking at fitting a socket into and "normal" cabinet. However, most wont fit the standard 150mm x 90mm x 55mm box.

Are there smaller versions i could use?

Ideas and options requested.

Thanks in advance.

Crakkers

 

[Taylortwocities]

Are there smaller versions i could use?

No. You are not allowed any socket in a bathroom (unless you have a very big room). socket located more than 2.5metres from the bath shower.

The safety socket is needed for a reason.

Anyway, I guess you are charging up a toothbrush or shaver? You don't even need to do that in the bathroom. my toothbrush keeps its charge for 3 weeks +
I just plug it in the bedroom.

 

[foxhole]

Ridiculously expensive?

 

[Crakkers]

Hi. I meant the cabinets with sockets are expensive, not the sockets.

 

[ericmark]

I don't find the need for a shaver socket

and I only have 5 teeth left. The sockets were from a time when we did not have battery powered electric shavers, and the transformer is turned on by inserting the plug, and designed in the main for intermittent use, to leave it turned on for an extended time, i.e. leaving something plugged in, will often cause overheating.

I have not found a mains powered tooth brush, maybe there are some made? But in the main battery powered, and whole idea of battery powered is you don't need to charge them in the bathroom.

I don't have the latest regulations can't justify the £125 price tag, but looking at my old copy it seems SELV or PELV is permitted, so fitting a USB outlet does seem to satisfy the regulations. Maybe someone can confirm this, as I am out of date, but that does seem to be the way to charge tooth brushes in the bathroom, they are designed for continuous use. In the old book it had to comply with BS EN 61558-2-5 maybe that has now changed?

As to a cabinet, not sure on the rules, I suppose if the supply is turned off when the door is opened it may be OK, is in side a cabinet considered as being in the bathroom, but I think the BS EN 61558-2-5 still holds for a cabinet?

 

[Crakkers]

No. You are not allowed any socket in a bathroom (unless you have a very big room). socket located more than 2.5metres from the bath shower.

The safety socket is needed for a reason.

Anyway, I guess you are charging up a toothbrush or shaver? You don't even need to do that in the bathroom. my toothbrush keeps its charge for 3 weeks +
I just plug it in the bedroom.

Bathroom cabinets haver small sockets, that is what I am trying to source.

 

[Taylortwocities]

Bathroom cabinets haver small sockets, that is what I am trying to source.

Yes they do, but - inside the mirror enclosure- there is a safety isolating transformer which is mandatory in most UK bathrooms.
You can’t have the socket without the special transformer, sorry.
Watch this

 

[AndyPRK]

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Thread 'Small euro/shaver socket'

28 Mar 2026

Hi any idea where to get a very small euro/shaver socket as per the attached picture? No isolating transformer needed, it's in a WC so outside the zones.

The smallest I can think is a single euro module from MK or similar but I can't find a small architrave box or similar to put it in, only a standard 1G box.

BG EMEUSW Euro Module 16A 2 Pin Unswitched Socket - White : Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools

BG EMEUSW Euro Module 16A 2 Pin Unswitched Socket - White : Amazon.co.uk: DIY & Tools

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[AndyPRK]

That copy thread link didn’t work too well.

Look a few posts away

 

[Taylortwocities]

@Crakkers are you only telling us half of the story?? Is this going in a room containing a bath or shower??

 

[Crakkers]

@Crakkers are you only telling us half of the story?? Is this going in a room containing a bath or shower??

Yes, inside a bathroom cabinet above the basin.

 

[ericmark]

Not interested in a basin, only a bath or shower.