On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 17:13 +0000, Howard Winter wrote:
> > 
> > Interesting, where would you plug in a hair dryer?
> 
> In the bedroom!  My girlfriend (who is from New York) finds it annoying that she can't dry her hair in the bathroom, but it's the way we do it here.

Wow, that sucks, especially the noise factor affecting other people. At
least in the bathroom you can close the door.

> When you think of it, having a heating element that is effectively exposed, with a live connection at one end, in a room that has one or more 
> open-topped containers of water, perhaps with a person in them, really is an accident waiting to happen!  :-)

But, that's what GFCIs are for. They are VERY effective and pretty much
eliminate this issue.

I have a feeling that this "no real outlet in the bathroom" thing
doesn't really save many people because it just results in people
running extension cords, or putting "illegal" (and probably improperly
installed) outlets in the bathroom.

And what about other places with water? No more outlets in the kitchen
because of the water? What about outdoor outlets?

It certainly isn't code in all of Europe, in Austria an outlet in the
bathroom is normal fair. Of the ones I've seen, they don't have a GFCI
per circuit, but they do have a "whole house" GFCI that covers every
outlet inside and outside the house.

TTYL

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