Bathroom heated towel rail - hard wired or plugged into socket

Accomodation, House and Garden
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Can anyone help me to understand if hard wiring a bathroom heated towel rail is within the Swiss code. If not then I would need to buy one with a Swiss plug
Thank you

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I believe the rules require it to be hard-wired if it is within a certain distance of a water supply (shower or sink). Ours is hard-wired as it is within a metre of the shower door.

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Thank you that’s helpful. There is a plug and socket there already so I imagine I can move to a hard wired connection. Any ideas which socket to use from the feller range for the wire to in?

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You must be a real sissy. Having to heat up your towel.

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Luxury!

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Says the person who asked on here about buying a hair drier to warm up their hair!

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Actually if you read my posts it was to warm up the tinea between my toes.

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There are lots of things to consider - as @Bowlie mentioned - there are distances from water sources to consider (check the regs).

You don’t mention the age of your dwelling - whatever was there before might not meet current (safer) regulations) so if the socket you intend to fit is near a water source it will need to be IP55 rated.
The cable should come out of the bottom of the socket - this ensures that any water drips down from the bottom of any cable loop and not into the socket.

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Thanks for the advice.

Actually I’m swapping out an old style tubular radiator for an infrared panel so not strictly a towel rail!

I can’t find a feller socket with a downwards facing route for the wire. They have them in Germany but closest I can find here is a blanking plate

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IP20 rated:

Needs junction box behind too.

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There are some metal ones halfway down this Feller page which are IP54 or better rated.

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Personally I find the Feller site really unintuitive and normally I’d rather go to Hornbach and look at the sockets etc in person to see that they are really what I want.

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Get a towel radiator - no electrics needed.

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Yes but then you would need to plumb it in which would add much more cost and technicality.

A electric-heated towel rail/IR panel is much better for a bathroom than a central -heating supplied one:

  1. It’s easier to install.
  2. It can be controlled by a timer so it only needs to be on when you need it on (some have WLAN so you can control it from your phone).
  3. It can dry towels/heat the bathroom when the central heating is not on - such as in Autumn/Spring.
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