What makes a bathroom a bathroom?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Then the same regs as regards water and electricity would apply in a kitchen and bathroom equally.

Basically, in a small kitchen, no power points.

[John Rumm]

There were some changes with the 17th edition... That for the first time allowed sockets in bathrooms once your are (IIRC) 3m away from the bath or shower (or reach of shower hose etc). So if you have a huge bathroom you have Zones 0 to 2, "Outside the Zones", and now in effect "back to normal rules".

[John Rumm]

Only if you have a bath or shower in the Kitchen!

There are actually no mandated distances for power points from kitchen sinks etc. There is a guideline in one of the supplementary books, that suggests 300mm though.

(note also that kitchens are no longer "special locations" from the point of view of Part P).

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Which makes my point perfectly. How many kitchens have all the power points 3 meters away from the sink?

[John Rumm]

Are you replying to the right sub-thread?

[Mr Macaw]

Wet jeans conduct almost as well as water does. So it's irrelevant whether you're wearing them or not when you splash water on yourself in a bathroom or kitchen.

[John Rumm]

So not very well then?

Water tends to need impurities in it to be a good conductor.

The elevated risk comes from being wet all over. If you are, get a grown up to teach you how to do the washing up.

[Mr Macaw]

Drop a hairdryer in the bath, then tell me how well the water conducted.

You only need to be wet where you touch the electricity. Usually the hands.

[John Rumm]

Please go and try.

[Mr Macaw]

Already done plenty times. Makes you jump, that's all.