Many believe that bath owners are happy people. You can have the opportunity to get down without moving away from a residential building - pleasure, unfortunately, not available to everyone. The fact is that in the bath is not easy, it is a great rest, the ability to improve and give your body the opportunity to upgrade and clean. Take care of comfort, comfort and convenience of bath procedures is still in design and construction. Properly and competently organized lighting, ensure comfort and safety in the bath.

The main characteristics of the temperature regime and humidity in the baths

1. There are several types of baths:

• russian;
• finnish;
• turkish.

2. The temperature characteristics of the temperature regime and humidity of each of them are based on at least 40 to 120 C, and the humidity varies from 15% to 95%.
3. Without a doubt, the operation of any bath adversely affects the state of the electrical wiring, and the risk of fire hazardous situation is still very high.
4. In order to conduct a wiring for light to a bath with your own hands, you need to take into account a number of features. Let's try to figure out how it is correct and safely spend the light into the bath.
5. Before starting work on laying electrical wiring you need:

• explore the requirements and precautions for installing electrical wires and appliances in hot and wet rooms;
• make a circuit wiring scheme with indication of placing electrical installation devices;
• select a suitable cross-section of wires, which is determined based on the number of electrical appliances, and the more there are more, the greater the cross section of each wire;
• calculate the load of the network in the room of the bath and its sufficient illumination;
• examine the issue of grounding organization for a separate building.

Preliminary preparation

As a preparation, it is necessary to study the mechanics of the wiring gasket and the requirements for it:

• the cable laying must have a strictly vertical or horizontal orientation;
• the cable rotation should be carried out exclusively at an angle of 90 c;
• horizontal wiring cable should pass strictly parallel to the ceiling line and at the same time at a distance of 10 cm from the immediate surface of the ceiling, doors and window openings;
• metal decoration objects or bath fixtures should be located not closer to 50 cm above any surface level;
• installing the switches in no case should be carried out below than at a distance of 1 m from the floor;
• places for outlets are determined in accordance with Eurostandards, which is 30 cm from the surface;
• outlets and switches are mounted 60 cm from the door of shower cabins;
• the wiring of the wiring cables from the distribution panel is performed only with a solid wire;
• all wires are connected solely in a special box, having the ability to resist the effects of moisture and dust;
• the location of the electrical shield must be selected so that it is as close as possible to the supply cable.

Precautionary measures

1. It is strictly prohibited:

• make a laying of wiring opposite the doors and in the angular joints of the rooms;
• connect several lamps to one switch, no more than 2 simultaneously included appliances are allowed;
• in no case can not be bent and twisted the wiring;
• all distribution boxes must be in mind.

2. Experienced electricians are advised even before the installation of electricians in the bath to draw a scheme on the walls with the designation of the installation places of all switches, sockets and lamps.
3. Paper version of the scheme is important to save, believe me, it is still repeatedly useful.

Features of connecting electrical wiring in baths and saunas

1. In rooms under the baths and saunas it is necessary to follow the rules for summing up the lines of electrical wires. For this:

• especially for the selected room, it is necessary to bring a separate line and ground contour;
• the planned wiring must withstand the temperature strictly to 180 c;
• wiring should not touch the wooden elements of the structure, so it must be placed in special fire and moisture empty boxes;
• the camshaft must be equipped with an emergency shutdown device when overheated;
• outlets are required to have a splashing coating and withstand the load of at least 16 A;
• all electrical appliances should be seamless on the principle of possible exploitation in rooms with a high degree of humidity;
• the ideal accommodation option for any electrical equipment is the place outside the steam;
• if the bath is equipped with a power supply, then when the temperature is reached, 140 C must work automatically disconnecting the power supply of the network;
• the furnace-heater is usually located in the corner and is necessarily protected by heat-resistant railings;
• the plastic of the lamp in no way should pass moisture and have a ceramic cartridge;
• in the steam room, you need to completely eliminate the wiring laying;
• all electrical appliances in the pair must be solid;
• it is categorically forbidden to prepress and even position the wiring in a refractory box above the furnace.

2. You can not lay the wiring and cables in the bath in metal pipes, in the sleeves with a metal shell or tilting.
3. For lightening the bathroom, it is recommended to use wall lamps. The number of such light sources is determined by its area and type. To illuminate the room with natural light, it is recommended to provide for at least one window when designing.
4. One of the most practical options in the bath is the use of lamps with a power not exceeding 60 W. The steam room can also be illuminated by means of a glass door or using a transparent partition.
5. The safest modern lighting is the lamps made of optical fiber. Such a kind in our time is quite popular in Turkish baths.

Types of electrical wiring: advantages and disadvantages

1. Electric wiring come:

• open;
• hidden.

2. An open-type wiring is usually mounted in the steel box, corrugation or in special trays and electric plinths. The electrical wires are usually paved along the walls, on the ceiling and fit into supports. Open wiring has a number of advantages: first, it is cheaper, because it is not necessary to perform an additional stroke of the walls, and secondly, such a wiring is much easier to repair.
3. The disadvantages of open wiring include:

• its non-primary appearance;
• the fact that plastic boxes in wooden walls are deformed with time;
• gofrotrub quickly dust, and when it laying it is quite difficult to perfectly observe a vertical or horizontal position.

4. Hidden wiring lies in special boxes, which must be deepened in the walls, ceilings, overlaps and located below the floor level.
5. Special attention should be paid to the insulation of cable joints. If the hidden wiring is laid from the inside of a wooden structure, then the wires must be laid with insulation from above and below the electrical wires.
6. For pairs and saunas, it is recommended to lay the hidden wiring, which should have the following advantages:

• high degree of fire safety;
• moisture resistance;
• do not have direct contact with hot air in the bath;
• be much longer;
• do not spoil the design and appearance of the room.

7. Hidden wiring when installing has a number of shortcomings and inconvenience, namely:

• access difficulty to eliminate damage;
• mounting labor.

Wire types for bath

1. To connect the room with a trunk wire, a SIP (self-supporting insulated wire) is used. Such a cable has a number of advantages:

• this type of wire eliminates the possibility of a short circuit due to the impossibility of their climbing;
• such wiring is not inflated in winter time;
• a significant advantage is the presence of a weather-resistant coating;
• absolutely simple when installing work with their own hands;
• it is possible without prejudice to the quality of the wiring to position along the front surface of the structure;
• let's say a joint installation with low-voltage cables on the same supports;
• durability, over two decades.

2. The disadvantages of the SIP include:

• high value of material;
• lack of sometimes necessary flexibility;
• installation of electricians underground such a method requires the mandatory use of armored power cable with copper cores.

Construction wiring inside bath

1. Installation of electricians in the bath is always carried out on the bottom of the wall, and the wires are entered into the outlet from the bottom or side.
2. In the steam room, the electrical conductivity is supplied directly to the place of installation of the lamp.
3. All electrical appliances must have a ground, which is performed using a three-core cable. Two of its cores should be connected to phase and zero, and the remaining, grounded by connecting to the reinforcement or the house shield.
4. Each socket in the bath should have an individual differential circuit breaker, and in the steam room it is important to establish the RCD, triggered by the current current of more than 10 mA.
5. Wiring in the steam room must be solid, so it is unacceptable to use artificially connected or scrambled slices.
6. The shield according to the standards must be installed away from the steam.
7. Each wire from all installation elements is connected only on the shield.

Electrical wiring device Outside

1. From the street, the wiring to the bath is usually supplied in two ways either by air or in the ground.
2. Air lighting into the bath is performed above the ground surface. The height of such suspension is usually governed by the following rules:

• over roads, or rather, their carriage part, the wiring is suspended at an altitude of about 6 m above the ground level;
• over the pedestrian tracks of the wires are not lower than 3.5 m. And the cable heap itself is summed at a height of at least 2.75 m from the ground;
• if the distance from the bath to the main cable exceeds 25 m, must be installed intermediate support.

3. Installation of wiring to the house must necessarily be agreed with the servicing department of the Energy Sport, since unauthorized connection will have many complaints from authorized employees of this organization and the relevant consequences.
4. If you have a single-phase supply of SIP, then enough just two lived, and with three-phase four.
5. When using standard devices for the clip of the sieps, the hardware can not be cleaned. The number of clamps must necessarily correspond to the number of them in the cable.
6. The cable along the wall is placed using a plastic box or in the corrugation. And on the outer wall, it is usually fixed with an anchor clamp.
7. Electrical wires are brought directly to the wall of the house on which the control machine will be installed. The shield can be both two- and quadruple, everything will depend on the number of active phases.
8. SIP is brought to the machine, and another cable is paired inside the bath structure, specially intended for inner wiring.

Choice of lamps for a bath

1. In the parilots, the use of portable lamps for saunas and baths is prohibited.
2. All lamps must be moistureproof and resistant to high temperatures. Such parameters are fully consistent with LED lamps for sauna and simple incandescent lamps.
3. Regardless of the type of device, neither water nor steam should not fall inside the luminaire. Since the fluid perfectly conducts an electric current, then in case of its incandescent, it fails, besides this, the ceiling can be broken into pieces and hurry someone fragile and even provide an electric blow to those present in the recreation area.
4. In order to avoid such trouble, the ceiling must be sealed - this is the main requirement when choosing lighting devices. In this case, it is safer to use lamps with an operating voltage of less than 220V.
5. There is a practical option in which the electrical wiring in the bath is organized in such a way that the stress on the lighting lamps is supplied only to 12 V, while the relatively sufficient current is preserved.
6. Lamps over 75 W use in the bath perfectly undesirable. Such day lighting devices are very poorly tolerated. Since they contain mercury, with a possible break of their shell, the relaxation premises will inevitably be filled with mercury couples.
7. The highest temperature in the bath is always at the ceiling level, so the lighting is undesirable there. Lower the devices as low as possible, there they will be subject to less thermal loads.

How should lighting in the bath in different rooms

It is important to competently pick up the lamps into the bath and sauna, since this place for recreation and the atmosphere must be appropriate. The choice of lamps should be primarily due to the safety regulations in the bath, and then the aesthetics and whims. For baths with high humidity, it is preferable to use a soft scattering semi-light. It will ensure full-fledged body relaxation and will allow fully enjoying bath procedures.

List of fixtures installation rules in the bath:

1. Lighting devices are better installed at the corners of the room or directly under the ceiling overlap.
2. LED devices practically do not have restrictions for installation in hot and wet rooms.
3. All glass lamps must be hidden using lattices or heat-resistant plafones.
4. Daily lighting devices are dangerous to use in the baths, mercury pairs have a fatal danger to a person.
5. In the soul you can provide bright light, but the maximum distance from moisture. Even the switch is best rendered beyond the shower room.
6. The main criterion when choosing a lamp for a wage is observance of safety.
7. There is no restrictions on the selection of lighting devices in the pre-tribbon.
8. There are modern lamps for installation in parilots and saunas. Most effectfully, of course, lighting in the bath with the help of LED lamps, they create a unique atmosphere of romance and completely safe.

Now you know how to spend the light in the bath with your own hands. If you do everything competently and correctly, you will provide yourself, your family and friends are safety, comfort, health and maximum pleasure from bath procedures.