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Title: Consumer Unit in Showerroom?
Post by Tomab7 on May 28^th, 2015, 8:01pm

I'd be very grateful for any advice on the following: I was looking to convert the rear of my integral garage (a space of 8'wide7'long) into a shower room/toilet. On the rear of the garage wall/near to ceiling is a consumer unit which the builder says could be boxed in, however when I have further investigated, the general consensus seems to be against having a consumer unit in a shower room. As the shower room would not be my main bathroom I would be happy to compromise on space and instead of having one shower room have a smaller shower room (7'x5') and a 7'x3' storage room (which would be useful). Each having seperate entrances and seperated by a stud wall, the consumer unit being above the doorway in the storage room. Would this be a safer option?

Title: Re: Consumer Unit in Showerroom?
Post by thescruff on May 28^th, 2015, 8:26pm

Would definitely go with plan B, in fact when the sparkies get home they'll probably say you can't have it in the shower anyway.

Title: Re: Consumer Unit in Showerroom?
Post by supersparky on Jun 1^st, 2015, 12:23am

You can't have it in the shower, If its within the shower but in a cupboard you can but not advised....Plan B sounds good!