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Electric towel heater: Is it ok to have it wired into a 13 amp fused spur? Or should it have something different. anybody know please. It's in a shower room without a bath and is to be positioned over 1 metre from the nearest water source/sink/shower etc. It's a long story but could do to know. Thanks.

Not a sparky, but heating personage... 13 amp will cover you for 3kw, so check what the kw is of the element in the heater. Personally i would put the fused spur the other side of the wall. So drill a hole through to the hallway or bedroom and mount the spur there. A proper sparky may say otherwise though.....

I believe as long as it's 0.6m from the shower/water source then it's in zone 3 which means it will be fine to run from a fused spur but it will have to be protected by a RCD. Can check the old regulations book tomorrow for you

I'm guessing it's already fitted and your just having a argument with some1 and want to prove them wrong

Hash brown wrote:I believe as long as it's 0.6m from the shower/water source then it's in zone 3 which means it will be fine to run from a fused spur but it will have to be protected by a RCD. Can check the old regulations book tomorrow for you

If you could that'd be great - and thank you. No, it's not fitted yet! It's part of a conversion from a garage to a bedroom and shower room. My plan was to drill through the stud wall and feed the cable through (from the shower room to the other side where a power source is located) and this would then mean the circuit is protected by a recently fitted consumer unit with trip switches. There would then be an unbroken lead/cable from the rad/heater to the other side of the wall. I am just trying to have a solid plan in mind for when I get quotes from the electrician. (I'm not sure about the new regs regarding me doing it myself. Is it classed as being something I can do, or is it looked upon as a new circuit? Therefore looking at getting electrician in).

much neater if you put the spur on the other side of wall

lloydy wrote:much neater if you put the spur on the other side of wall

I totally agree, but I'm looking at the legalities and 'sensibilities' of it. Just need to know.

Any electrical work carried out in a bathroom, kitchen or outside must be done by a qualified electrician with Part P and the work to be tested and registered with their organisation. Same goes with any new circuits. Your allowed to do some alterations outside of these restrictions your self, so technically if the spur was on the outside wall you should get away with it

Kitchen

Bloody auto correct spelling .......Kitchen

I give up, for some reason it's changing the word. I'm trying to say the place that you do the cooking in

A typical new installation would be to hard wire the towel radiator flex into a cable outlet box, on the 'wet' side of the wall, which is then connected via a fused isolator switch, on the 'dry' side of the wal,l to the mains.

Hash brown wrote:I give up, for some reason it's changing the word. I'm trying to say the place that you do the cooking in

this is how you spell
k i t c h e n

Hash brown wrote:I give up, for some reason it's changing the word. I'm trying to say the place that you do the cooking in

Don't see how it can change 'camper van' into 'Nehctik'. Seriously: Thanks for that Hash Brown. thanks clift_d as well.

As soon as you do any electrical connection in the restricted zone ie bathroom then it need to be registered, even a flex outlet...but no one would ever know, I won't tell on you