Bathroom Electric Towel Rail Regulations

This is the area above or either side of zone 1 extending up to a height of 3000mm and extending horizontally to 600mm.

Bathroom electric towel rail regulations.

I am not an electrician and want to wire in a electric heated towel rail. This zone has the same requirements as zone 1. If you were to install a heated towel rail in this zone it would need a rating no lower than ipx4. Normally to put a heated towel rail in a bathroom then the towel rail flex would go in a flex out let and from there the fuse would be out side the bath room the end.

The minimum ingress protection rating here is ipx4. Zone 2 stretches to a 0 6m outside your bath or shower and above your bath or shower if over 2 25m. Alternatively put the towel rail in zone 2 with a sw spur or isolator switch more than 600mm from the bath shower so that it is no longer in zone 2 but still near the towel rail. Zone 1 is the zone above your bath or shower to a height of 2 25m.

Electric and gas water heaters in a bathroom must be fixed and permanently wired unless they are powered by a socket fitted three metres from a bath or shower. Heaters and towel rails central heating is the safest way to keep a bathroom warm. 701 512 3 for zone 2 says switchgear and accessories may not be installed in zone 2 there are some exceptions for selv and shavers but not a towel rail. However the main part of the wiring has been done by a electrician and is up to regulations recently required.

Wanted some advice on regulations for these.