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Water tap, electrical socket minimum distance.


Jackie

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I am sure that this may have been covered before but search has revealed nothing.  I would be most obliged if anyone could remind me of the minimum permitted distance between a water tap and an electrical socket. The tap in question feeds a washing machine input hose and the 20 amp socket powers the same. Many thanks in anticipation……………….John

PS Can anyone confirm that the solder in in-line brass stop valves you get at the Brico stores are good for both hot and cold water.

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IANAE, but...

If I have interperated the regs correctly then it is 60cm, and must be in "Volume 3" (one of the electricity books will detail the volumes). The socket  must be on a 30mA trip, too.

All soldered (or brazed) (most) plumbing is good for hot, cold or CH. Provided, of course that you do it correctly!

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I love questions like this.

My enormous bathroom is 2m².  It has a shower, a loo, a washbasin, two radiators, two cisterns (I plan to remove the other honestly but it is a bit rusted on!)  AND four million wires and two fuse boxes, the EDF box, the water heater box.......

Don't be so British.  Get French.  Splash it all over.  Get electricuted!

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Hot water to a washer? Ours only uses cold. When I asked about why, the French salesman was very surprised, saying (rightly, I suppose), "But sir, your washing machine would empty your chauffe eau."

Anyway, I don't think any plumbing washer will object to hot water. They don't like lime, but that's another story.

Alcazar

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Ok and thanks. The in-line valve I mentioned was a feed to a sink and not the washing machine. We are still using the Brit machine we brought over with us and have yet to replace it with a French one. The hot and cold feeds are tied together with a Y connector and it seems to work OK on cold only though it does take longer to get through a cycle as you might expect, as the water has to be heated by its own immersion heater.......................John

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