I have a first floor bathroom with a combined light/shaver socket over a big rectangular mirror. This runs off the lighting circuit, has an integral isolation transformer and is earthed (ie is supplied by a 3 core L/N/E cable).
The shaver socket on the light is too high to use (particularly as me and the wife get older and less able to stretch up on tiptoe!). I am planning to redecorate this room and am thinking about having a shaver socket installed in addition to the existing wall-light fitting. Ideally this would be connected by a spur from the existing light fitting, with the wiring chased around the mirror. If it could be done that way it would be a very simple little job.
Some years after the place was re-wired, a loft conversion was carried out in the floor above, so the lighting circuit is pretty inaccessible. If a separate wiring run to the new shaver socket were necessary, it's probably too much trouble to have this work done.
I can see from researching this forum, that a shaver socket needs to be earthed, needs an isolation transformer, is notifiable work and that a combined light/shaver socket is a good solution. But I can't find any reference to a shaver socket being spurred off an existing light .
I'm thinking it's easier to get an answer off here than get someone round to quote for a job which may not be possible. Plus, I don't have a tame electrician, so I'm thinking from a safety perspective that an answer off this forum might be the most reliable.
The proposed new socket would be well away from the bath and more than 600mm from the wash basin.
Can someone advise?
Cheers.
The shaver socket on the light is too high to use (particularly as me and the wife get older and less able to stretch up on tiptoe!). I am planning to redecorate this room and am thinking about having a shaver socket installed in addition to the existing wall-light fitting. Ideally this would be connected by a spur from the existing light fitting, with the wiring chased around the mirror. If it could be done that way it would be a very simple little job.
Some years after the place was re-wired, a loft conversion was carried out in the floor above, so the lighting circuit is pretty inaccessible. If a separate wiring run to the new shaver socket were necessary, it's probably too much trouble to have this work done.
I can see from researching this forum, that a shaver socket needs to be earthed, needs an isolation transformer, is notifiable work and that a combined light/shaver socket is a good solution. But I can't find any reference to a shaver socket being spurred off an existing light .
I'm thinking it's easier to get an answer off here than get someone round to quote for a job which may not be possible. Plus, I don't have a tame electrician, so I'm thinking from a safety perspective that an answer off this forum might be the most reliable.
The proposed new socket would be well away from the bath and more than 600mm from the wash basin.
Can someone advise?
Cheers.