On 10 Oct 2005 03:05:39 -0700, "Cenfus" wrote: |>We've a lot of chrome going on in our bathroom and I'd like to swap the |>white ceiling mounted light pull switch for a chrome one (the only one I've |>seen so far is described as 'chrome effect' so I guess it's plastic). I know |>there's all |>sorts of recommendations for zones and lighting, but what about pull |>switches? |>
|>This will be a 1:1 swap with the switch in exactly the same place as it is |>currently - by the door as far from the bath as possible! |>
|>I'm also looking to replace our air vent with a chrome version - just |>siliconed onto the tiles.
Text referred to reinstated, to make things understandable. . | We have standard (plastic) switches in our bathroom -- four of them | (two for lights, one's a fan over-ride and the fourth's for the mirror | heater). | Of course you don't play with them with wet hands, but we're all | adults.
That is fine until you have an emergency and people do not have time to think about the dangers you have built into the system. Or you have a child visiting who does not know that you have planted a booby trap in the bathroom.
I have had a tingle off an ordinary light switch not in the bathroom, so I would not trust them farther than I would throw them in a bathroom.
In bathrooms one has lots of condensation which may also occur inside an ordinary switch and give a leakage path from the live components to the bits you touch. So not touching them with wet hands will not provide good protection. | Anyway, evolution has to be given a fair crack at weeding out the gene | for stupid ...
Hopefully it will be you
| You want a chrome pull-cord; fit one.
Agreed if you feel happy about it. Fitting a diferent one should be no problem.