Perhaps they should say so then. In my case I dropped the plug under the floorboards and brought it up in an adjacent room to plug in.They may be suggesting that people shouldn't really have 13A sockets in their bathroom!
As I have said, before, that sort of pedantry doesn't move along a topic at all.
It is NOT pedantry. It is FACT.
Yes, but it doesn't add any value to the thread. Its just your attempt to add your status as the forum know-it-all.
It doesa. It shows that the seller does not know what he is talking about and therefore cannot be trusted.
It's not really about sealing and splash nones but, rather, the 'Zones' created by a shower, and what the regulations have to say about electrical work within them
I really don't know what to say, since this is a totally new one on me. Baths and showers are usually 'fixed, so also are the 'Zones' that they create. I've never come across, or heard of, a situation in which there was a 'moveable' shower, hence 'moveable Zones'. The law says that any electrical work (and that includes connecting any wire to terminals within 600 mm of a shower (i.e. 'within Zones') is notifiable work, but we seem to have a situation in which those Zones may be in a different place when the electrical connections are made from where they will be 'during normal service' of the shower! I'll be interested to hear what others think.
That, in itself, is not particularly relevant. For better or worse, the regulations require that all circuits (i.e. wiring) servicing a bathroom (or even just 'passing through' a bathroom) must be RCD protection (i.e. upstream protection, usually at the Consumer Unit), regardless of whether equipment connected to that wiring has additional RCD protection of its own.
True, but we do not know if the OP's CU has RCD-protection on the circuit in question. Looking at some of the MIs for other products, some come with their own RCD. Som are 10mA, some say to chop their RCD off if the CU has adequate protection.
Just out of curiosity, I'm wondering if it would still be classed as a special location, if a self-contained unit like this, was installed as an ease of living modification to someone's bedroom?
Exactly - I was merely reinforcing your point that the circuit needs to be RCD protected even if the shower itself has built-in RCD protection.
As I said, it's such an unusual (unique for me!) situation that I just don't know how 'officialdom' would regard it, given the 'moveable Zones' (hence moveable 'special location')! As I implied, it seems that it would probably be possible to make the electrical connections at a point that was, at the time, more than 600 mm from the shower (hence 'outside zones', hence not notifiable) and then ''push the shower back' to a position close to those connections, such that the connections were then within Zone 2!
I think you'll find that the definition of 'special location' (i.e. the 'Zones' created by baths and showers) are written in terms of "rooms containing a bath or shower", regardless of whether the owner regards it as a bathroom, bedroom, kitchen or anything else - which I suppose makes sense!!
All true - but, as I've said, this is (at least for me) a totally unique/unprecedented situation, with its potentially moveable Zones.
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