so in today's video as you can see we're back in a bathroom okay and we've done previous videos
within bathrooms and looking at the zones within bathrooms but however we have a difference today
because we're actually standing in a wet room okay so we're gonna look at the difference within
zones in a wet room to that previous that we've looked at in bathrooms so we're here in the wet
room down on the floor okay and we're looking at first of all zone zero now we're used to there
being either a bathtub or a shower tray and we know that zone zero is inside of that area
however we don't have a tray or a tub in this wet room so zone zero is actually the floor
itself where we're gonna be standing in the water itself okay now the things we need to look at here
is the outlet here so what we're gonna actually look at is where zone one extends from this
outlet so before where zone one would be from the edge of zone zero okay now it's actually on the
outlet not necessarily straight off of the edge of zone zero okay so when we measure zone one in this
bathroom okay we're actually looking at a diameter of 1.2 meters from the center of this outlet here
so if i was to measure from the center of that outlet okay there to 1.2 meters
and you can see we put a bit of tape here just to indicate where zone one lies now it's important to
know that within this zone one okay this arc here the floor everywhere inside of there is zone zero
the minute we pick our foot off of that floor we enter into zone one of this wet room so as you
can see we've got our tape here okay which follows all the way around where we've taken our 1.2 meter
measurement from the center of this outlet now it's important to note this outlet here is in
the corner okay which is quite common with wet rooms however it could be positioned in other
places if that was let's say in the center of the room here we would have to take our 1.2 meter
measurement and that would go all the way around this wet room okay the reason we've got the tape
here is because naturally we have walls so the 1.2 meters stops there and follows it round
so now we've sort of looked at the measurements on the floor with zone one and zone zero
we look and look at the height again now we know the height from zone one
and it extends to two point two five meters so that hasn't changed and again just to reiterate
if we had a fixed shower out head up here or maybe a waterfall head in the ceiling zone
zone one would actually extend to pass that fixed outlet okay so just because there's one here
doesn't mean zone one extends to here it actually still extends to 2.25 meters in this wet room
again if it was fixed up there it would extend past that point so now we've looked at zone zero
being the floor in this area okay and we've looked at zone one and the measurements we
need to apply in a wet room now we need to talk about zone two so what we're used to doing in a
let's say a generic bathroom with a tub or shower tray is zone two would extend 600 millimeters
from the edge of zone one so if i was to do this okay from the edge of zone one here 600 you would
expect this area to be zone 2. however slightly different in wet rooms zone 2 actually doesn't
exist okay we do not have a zone 2 within this area so again just to cover again BS1363 socket
outlets within a bathroom okay within a wet room it is still 2.5 meters from the edge of zone one
okay so in this wet room here there's nowhere in here it could be because it's not of that size but
however we do actually have one outside of this wet room which is just here and this actually
falls within 2.5 meters of the edge of zone 1 but again as we talked about with our airing cupboards
once we come through this doorway okay and there is two doorways in this wet room so it applies
to both we're actually no longer in a special location hence rules for special locations no
longer apply so again with IP ratings just to reiterate there's no difference to what we've
already spoke about in previous videos okay so we're generally looking at IPX4 or IPX5 if there's
water jets within this wet room here okay and all the IP ratings apply for the various zones now the
customer actually bought this off of ebay okay and they've asked me to fit it took it out of the box
first thing worried me was a plug and his wet room isn't about 10 meters long
it's actually a hair dryer okay but the other thing that worried me about installing the
bathroom is actually on the back if you have a look it talks about the waterproof rating is IPX1
so i've i've nicely explained to the customer why we cannot fit this in the wet room while
we're here today and he's fine with it he's going to look for another product that is maybe suitable
for this area so just to summarise really okay so within this wet room things like IP ratings stay
the same generally as the other bathrooms that we see on a day-to-day basis socket outlets distances
again stay the same in accordance with the edge of the zones however the main difference within this
wet room is that outlet there okay and zone zero in zone one remember zone zero is the floor itself
where we're touching the water zone one extends a measurement of 1.2 meters from the outlet in the
floor regardless of where that is in the bathroom and the big change obviously being NO zone 2 in
this bathroom or this wet room so effectively from the edge of where zone 1 finishes all of the area
there is actually outside of the zone so again as always we hope this video has been some help