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Author: Subject: Totally off topic – Fitting a bath in a bedroom
Mr Whippy

posted on 18/2/09 at 02:58 PM Reply With Quote
Totally off topic – Fitting a bath in a bedroom

Anyone know if there are regulations against doing this sort of thing or does the bath actually have to be in its own room?

I was thinking about electrics, insulation etc

Anyone know?

Thanks






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Pdlewis

posted on 18/2/09 at 03:16 PM Reply With Quote
seems to be popular on 'Grand Design' style builds








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Mr Whippy

posted on 18/2/09 at 03:30 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by Pdlewis
seems to be popular on 'Grand Design' style builds


cool

I have a useless space in a long bedroom that I'd rather fit a bath than another wardrobe. I'll see if I can find their site

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SteveWalker

posted on 18/2/09 at 03:59 PM Reply With Quote
You can't have any sockets (other than a shaver socket) in a room with a bath or shower. There are also restrictions on positions and types of lights and switches.
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bob tatt

posted on 18/2/09 at 04:47 PM Reply With Quote
you need to check the 17th edition of the electrickery regs. any room with a bath or shower in is split into zones. within these zones there are different regs. all a bit hard to explain but there is a diagram. cant tell you more water and gas are my thing not nasty electric.
hope this helps rob

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907

posted on 18/2/09 at 05:30 PM Reply With Quote
Sorry mate, but a bath in the bedroom is a really bad idea.


You'll wake up in the morning with a crick in your neck, or even worse, hypothermia.





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Danozeman

posted on 18/2/09 at 05:33 PM Reply With Quote
If your gonna do it id put a stud wall in and make it its own little room. You may find you need extraction aswell.





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Liam

posted on 18/2/09 at 06:17 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by SteveWalker
You can't have any sockets (other than a shaver socket) in a room with a bath or shower. There are also restrictions on positions and types of lights and switches.


You can in certain zones, and I think they'd have to be RCD protected (i.e. replace the MCB with an RCBO). Why on earth anyone would want a bath in their bedroom is another issue altogether

Liam

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mr henderson

posted on 18/2/09 at 06:39 PM Reply With Quote
I can solve this problem easily. As soon as you install and plumb in the bath, your bedroom just became a bathroom!

If you leave the bed in there then it will be a bed in a bathroom. If you've already got a bathroom, then you just got another one!

Simple

John






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D Beddows

posted on 18/2/09 at 07:19 PM Reply With Quote
Slightly OT but a few years ago I had a couple come in to a company I used to work for to try and hire us to design and build a scheme to convert their (fairly small) master bedroom to incorporate an 'open plan' en-suite bathroom....including a toilet........ we didn't need the work at the time so we politely refused, mostly because none of us could look at the couple without collapsing into hysterics - but they though it was a great idea






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woodster

posted on 19/2/09 at 10:03 AM Reply With Quote
I thought of having a bath fitted in my bedroom if and its a BIG if i was married to Gemma Atkinson you get the idea BIG bottle of bubble bath etc
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DarrenW

posted on 19/2/09 at 12:25 PM Reply With Quote
House on Grand Designs last night had open plan bathroom / bedroom. Not able to see how it was wired up though.






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trogdor

posted on 19/2/09 at 03:24 PM Reply With Quote
have stayed in a bed and breakfast that had a shower in the corner of the room, very strange!
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