[Technology] Question for NSC's electricians - washing machine in bathroom.

[DarrenFreemansPerm]

The hours must fly by in Germany if they find this funny.

Turns out it’s not just the Germans, the rest of the world do it, we are the odd ones out

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2019/06/0...-washing-machine-kitchen-rest-world-appalled/

 

[Eeyore]

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[Cheshire Cat]

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That cannot be safe. At the very least you will bang your head when you try to stand up.

 

[BN9 BHA]

That cannot be safe. At the very least you will bang your head when you try to stand up.

I would smack my head every time

Hopefully they didn’t use No Nails to fix the brackets to the wall.

 

[Petunia]

When I first arrived in the States I was surprised at having electrical outlets in the bathroom. Apparently it's perfectly safe as long as they are protected by a circuit breaker and also their voltage is less at 120V.

I've never been convinced somehow as I don't think electricity and water / steam mix and never use them.

Bathrooms in Australia have sockets in them too. I use mine all the time. My daughter’s first apartment had the washing machine and tumble drier in the bathroom but almost all homes have laundry rooms.

Aussies find it most bizarre that people take their dirty underwear into the kitchen to put into the washing machine! And don’t ever mention carpet in a bathroom. They find that totally weird

 

[Justice]

My first thoughts, as an old time electrician, was 100% NO.
But times have changed now. Apparently ring mains are no more, but that's another subject.
Bodians comments of "The cable went through the wall, and the sockets were in the kitchen - so no live electrics in the bathroom" obviously forgets that a washing machine is full of electric circuitry all with 240v running through.
So my thoughts are simple. Do you have hot baths or showers resulting in a steam filled bathroom. Yes, then forget it.

Ring mains are still a thing mate.

 

[Justice]

I know nothing about electrics but I do know that if you are at some time in the future looking to sell your house , it is very off putting for buyers to see a washing machine in a bathroom or a boiler in a bedroom .

Put your boiler downstairs enclosed in a unit that you can access easily and your washing machine in a utility room . If you don’t have a utility room , see if you have space to get it fitted in your kitchen behind a kitchen unit so it doesn’t stick out and is seamlessly intergrated .

You’re welcome…

And if you live in a flat Space is of a premium these days although it’s mainly the dryer I come across in bathrooms.

 

[Worried Man Blues]

And if you live in a flat Space is of a premium these days although it’s mainly the dryer I come across in bathrooms.

That'll be the vibrations.........

 

[Madafwo]

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I guess it makes it easier if you've run out of toilet paper and need to sacrifice a sock.

 

[BN9 BHA]

I guess it makes it easier if you've run out of toilet paper and need to sacrifice a sock.