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And yet most apartments don't have an outlet near the toilet.
by sublinear 1y ago
And yet most apartments don't have an outlet near the toilet.
- mulmen 1y agoI have lived in close to a dozen places built over the entire second half of the 20th century and into the 2010s and never had a bathroom with more than 6 feet between the toilet and an outlet.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoMy master bathroom in a 2016 build has a separate toilet room, and only one outlet that is definitely more than six feet away, it would also require drilling a hole somewhere.
- mulmen 1y agoWeird. That’s certainly not common in apartments.
- seanmcdirmid 1y agoI don’t think separate toilet rooms are very common in the states at all.
- mixmastamyk 1y agoSeparate sink, bathroom+toilet rooms here.
- zrobotics 1y agoYeah, NEC only requires 1 outlet within 3 feet of each sink in a bathroom, and 2 sinks 6' apart could share 1 outlet. Bathrooms are the really the only place where the NFPA hasn't extended the required number of outlets, and I wouldn't be surprised to see that changed in an upcoming revision. At the very least I wouldn't be shocked to see a NEC requirement for an outlet within 3' of each toilet in the next decade.
- kelnos 1y agoIn my downstairs bathroom, I do indeed have a power outlet within 6 feet of the toilet, but until I added a second, closer outlet, plugging in my bidet required running an extension cord along the back of the counter, behind the sink, to reach the original outlet. Not the most attractive setup, and probably not the safest either. In my old apartment, the master bedroom had the toilet in a separate room from the sink, with no power outlet at all.
- mulmen 1y agoYeah my current setup requires an extension cord and it’s definitely a hassle. It doesn’t look great and it is another thing to clean.