Wall switch and shower...

[mrcaptainbob]

Light switch issue...

HayZee...in cases such as that, a difference of 'opinion' between the codes and the inspector...which prevails?

[pushkins]

I can show you a thousand bathrooms new and old all with light switches as you enter the door and with a tub/shower unit about 12" away.
It's an extremely common design nowadays to have the bath/tub/shower immediately to the left or right as you walk in the door in many cases there is a wall that the door opens up onto so this leaves just one location for a light switch that must be located as you enter the room.

[HayZee518]

I searched a code book and didn't find anything but I asked a local inspector and he said no!

[mrcaptainbob]

Light switch...

Well, then maybe I will locate it there. Your question to HayZee and no reply from him led me to think it was not 'proper'.....

[pushkins]

Now an "outlet" cannot be near a shower, that's for sure, but a light switch most certainly can.

[mrcaptainbob]

Wall switch....

If the standard applies to wall switches the same as outlets, then maybe I'll have to locate one of those battery operated remote switches. Not happy about it, but they do work.

[pushkins]

Hayzee are you sure about the light switch having to be 6' (foot) away ???
90% of bathrooms have a wall switch as you walk in the door and a tub/shower unit right next to that (6 ish " away )

[mrcaptainbob]

Wall switch...

Rats. That does not make this easy.

[HayZee518]

6 feet no closer
you should not be able to touch it standing in the shower

[mrcaptainbob]

Is there a limit on how close to a shower a wall switch is allowed? I have a situation whereby the switch would like to be on the ten inch space between the tub/shower and the latch side of the bathroom entry.