Some friends have bought a newly-built house and all three bathrooms have light fittings consisting of an uncovered bulb attached to the ceiling.
I've tested it and in each bathroom I can stand in the bath or shower and touch the bulb - surely this is not legal??
Think it is.
The expectation being that any sane homeowner will immediately change the £2 piece of shit for a nice ditzy £300 luminaire etc etc.
Of course it is! you're six inches higher when stood in the bath, you should be able to reach most of the ceiling, where else are they expected to put the light fitting?
If it's the 'uncovered' part that is bothering you, it's not up to housebuilders to provide lampshades.
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Adam
So you don't think when you purchase a 'product it should be safe to use as purchased? Interesting, I suppose we should scrap all thoughts of Consumer Protection Legislation.
As far as I was aware, if a fitting can be reached from within the bathtub, then it's in a different Zone with different regs - the pdf file someone else posted seems to bear this out.
In the same place, but making sure it is of the appropriate, legal IP rating for its location?
David
Not reach but within certain distances vertically and horizontally from the bath and/or shower and/or basin.
On 10 Oct 2006 10:59:45 -0700 someone who may be "Murmansk69" wrote this:-
A bulb attached to the ceiling? Presumably you mean the bulbs are inserted into some sort of fitting which is attached to the ceiling.
Whether this complies with the regulations depends on what sort of fitting it is and where it is located. More information on both is needed, together with how the circuit powering the light is wired.
Consumer protection legislation doesn't apply to houses.
Anyway, the lampholder should have a "Home Office" skirt.
Owain
THREE bathrooms ?............Oooooooooooooh.lol
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So Blunkett can touch it up?
We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Edward W. Thompson saying something like:
Only a mental defective is going to stick their fingers in the holder while in the shower.
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How about accidental contact with the exposed parts of a broken bulb. Not as unlikely as you might think as a slip might result in a flailing arm breaking the bulb.
Yeah, that's the first thing eveyone does when falling over - try to grab the ceiling.
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Out of interest, what actually happens to you if you eat silica gel? It's non toxic unless tinged with cobalt chloride moisture indicator - which wouldn't make a lot of sense inside a white paper bag.
Bugger!!
I have been saving them up for a peckish period.
Now you have spoiled it. :((
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