Electrical

Bathroom towel rail to plug outside?

Anonymous user 16 March 2024 - 2.52 PM

We're having a new bathroom fitted and for our radiator I want to get an electric element so that we can heat the room without having to have the central heating on. There are loads of electric elements you can buy and fit to a standard radiator to make it "dual fuel", but what I really want is one that I can program with a 7-day schedule, and those are very few and far between. My proposed solution is to get a standard element which has no special features - one of the "always on" ones - and have the cable run into the wall and then under the bathroom floor, emerging outside the bathroom, where it will be wired into a standard 3-pin plug. I can then connect that plug to a programmable timer switch and have as much control as I want. Our bathroom fitter, who is a certified Competent Person (I think, need to double-check that), says that this arrangement is fine because the plug socket is outside the bathroom, which certainly seems to agree with what I've read. Does that sound right to any electricians on here?