Are there such things for the UK? Specifically for a bathroom? I don't want to turn the light on when I get up for a pee.
In our last house I installed a mains socket in the bathroom & plugged a night-light into it, but I'd like to do it "properly" in this one, if possible.
I think you may have to put the bits together yourself - a suitable light fitting with a very low power LED.
You would have to fit a switch of some type, even if you left it on permanently.
You could add either movement detector or photocell, but if the power is low enough it might not even pay back the cost of the extra kit..
Chris
I wonder how effective photoluminescent tape would be? Perhaps incorporated into a lampshade, or maybe paint the skirting.
Or round the top surface of the bog to provide an aiming ring.
Cheers
The LavNav
Donno but a mains indicator light (neon or LED) and a suitably drilled blank plate or fixed into the central hole of a ceiling rose. Some indicators are quite deep, might be a problem in a ceiling rose.
Fit an emergency light, the "I'm charging LED" is more than bright enough.
How about a very low power LED fitting (1 watt sort of power - these are available in GU10 for example) - have an external switch which you just leave on all the time.
You can get LED bulbs with 'dusk to dawn' photocells built in. So one of those in a suitable fitting would do I imagine?
Paint the walls like a chinese takeaway ...
How about a battery powered PIR LED unit like this one? Intended for outdoors but serviceable indoors too.
I put one on our VH as it makes locking up much easier.
Seems to be a cheaper non weatherproof version too
Couldn't find the one I bought now (remaindered).
Or several tape strips. If they line up, one is in the correct glide path...
Actually the tape doesn't glow for very long. I have a glow-in-the dark rubber bear filled with water and a luminescent (phosphorescent?) sludge that easily glows all night. Probably the larger volume helps it glow longer, as part of the glow may be absorbed by the sludge, I guess. Anyway, it usefully dangles from a sharp furniture corner at shin height as a navigational aid...
As a more practical suggestion -- small neon switch illumination, possibly behind a faceplate or wired to live in an extractor fan? Solar garden ornament that charges during the day's light and glows dimly at night?
Thomas Prufer
We have a bathroom cabinet with a built in fluorescent light (also a shaver socket).
When we have guests we leave this on over night to provide a safe guide to the loo.
Out of interest, why don't you want to turn the light on and off?
Noisy switch, or coupled to a fan?
Cheers
Dave R
I guess because he doesn't want to be revved up like a deuce.
Cheers
Shaver Socket + European USB plug* + USB light
*European USB plug:Fits a shaver socket, converts to 5v. Lots of different USB lights will work.
Bob
We use a variation on that - although that example does look pretty unhygienic! Something like this:
under the bathroom cabinet. Works fine but the batteries (obviously) drain to keep the PIR afloat. Pick one that takes high capacity batteries - with 2 AAs I have to recharge them every couple of months.
Are you sure? Euro plugs are just that little bit different to UK shaver plugs. Certainly the UK shaver plugs on our toothbrushes won't fit our German sockets. I think the pin spacing is slightly different, so depending on the slop in the plug and the socket, it may or may not work.
Or an LED night lite designed to fit a shaver socket.
It seems increasingly common for shaver chargers in the UK to be of the continental plug variety which is a rattling good fit in UK 2 pin socket adaptors (and tends to fall out). The dual fit ones tend to have slightly flexible plastic pins with conductor only at the ends.
There is some slight difference in spacing/diameter but in practice they always seemed to work for me OK in Belgian household sockets.
Obviously in a bathroom it's going to need specially run in wiring,unless it would be ok close to a central light which is loop in. Or a permanently live shaver socket etc you can pick up from.
I'd just find a fitting you like and use a low wattage LED. Plenty of those around - it's getting decent power ones that is more difficult.
Obviously, a daylight sensor would make some sense too. Or even better a motion sensor.
My bathroom cabinet has an LED lamp, and is easy to switch on, so that's what I use.
We've got a light, a GU10 low-energy, in the hallway. It's controlled by a light-switch purchased from I-forget-who. Point is it's 4W of low-energy (not LED) light that comes off at dusk, more or less, and goes off a dawn. Since the hallway lights are usually on, it stays off in the evening too. The sparks put in it, with two switches, so we could have:
1) All off 2) Light on permanently 3) Light on and controlled by the light switch (normal setting)
Hm. Had a look in my box. A few photos:
Photo1: Two Euro plugs + a shaver socket.
Photo2: Euro plug into shaver socket. This is a tight, but not forced fit. The other plugs I have are the same.
Both plugs in the first photo are Samsung branded and have a slight (but noticeable) inward lean. I have others than are not, and do not, but which fit just as well.
Bob
PS: Clearly the socket has no power ;)
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