Utility room off bathroom

Might making the door lockable help?

It might make it more acceptable according to the regs but it might not make it any safer. If you can reach the washing machine from the bath i would be extremely wary.

Just a thought: Are any of the airing cupboard walls shared with a landing or hall? A friend just put in a partition wall where the airing cupboard door had been and made a new opening out on to the landing. That way you could access the cupboard without having to disturb the person in the bath.

Al

Equipotential bonding.

No problem whatsoever. You don't have to equipotential bond or have no sockets in a hallway and they are only separated from the bathroom by a door.

OTOH, assuming metal pipework from the bathroom, there is probably no harm in doing equipotential bonding in this specific case (the appliance cases will already be earthed, so no ability to provide isolation instead). There's also no harm in providing RCD protection to the socket outlets.

Christian.

Germans, one would have thought, seem to have sensible rules and regs but you'll often see washing machines and open sockets in bathrooms. They find it odd that in the uK washing machines are in the kitchen.