Given the ratio of porn downloaders to available jail cells, I'd say he's probably pretty safe.
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Well, one thing that you have to consider is that many American dwellings are far larger than their European counterparts...
A bathroom in this country can often be as large as an entire "flat" over there...lol So, if our outlets were to be placed on the wall outside the door, we'd either have to stand right next to the door, far, far away from the mirror, or we'd need to haul out extension cords... So, the outlets are placed right in the bathrooms, right by the sink/mirror... (Heh, note that the above is a slight exaggeration, and isn't indicative of the majority of American homes, least of all my own, which has a bathroom that is just large enough to fit the shower/bathtub, a toilet, and a small sink, which incidentally is right next to the door...lol) But regardless, the problem isn't from having an outlet in the bathroom... That is completely harmless... An outlet by itself (properly wired, of course) will do absolutely nothing, regardless of where it is located... The electricity will never come out to harm anyone, even if the room were full of steam so thick you couldn't see the shower head...lol The problem is when it is used... The hazard comes from dropping plugged-in items into bodies of water (the toilet, the bath, the sink)... Doubly so if those bodies of water are inhabited (someone trying to curl their hair while in the bath, for instance) So, no matter where your outlet is (in the bathroom or just outside of it), if you're using electrical appliances around water, there is a danger... Thus, since most people find it convenient to use these appliances in the bathroom, there needs to be a safety mechanism in the power outlet that turns the power off when said items become immersed in water... And that's where the GFCI outlet comes into the picture... | |
If I were you I'd check to see if your insurance still covers you. I'm not sure about in America, but here that would be the point where you cross the line and have to have a certified electrician do the work.
I don't want to get preachy but I'd be careful with DIY electrical work if I were you. It really is dangerous business. An electrician isn't safer because they know more about it (in your case they probably don't) but because they do it five days a week. Even a bad electrician has safety so drilled into their brain they're barely aware they're doing it. Even when they know all the safety rules DIYers just don't have that. It's a fun way to spend a weekend but if there's an accident you could seriously die. As for the power in the bathroom thing I think that's a case of something parents told their children and those children adopted it as fact. They claimed electricity in the bathroom was an instant death thing (like they do with smoking) so that kids wouldn't dry their hair in the bath. Then when those kids grew up they never questioned it because it was common knowledge among their peers. Thus they went on to teach it to their children as a fact. It's logical enough that no one would ever question it without outside prompting. | |
See that green gunk? It's most likely copper sulfide.
I thought it was a ghost :\ | |
The ghost... IN THE MACHINE!
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Put wire nuts on your twisted pairs
Once the government gets through arresting everyone who ever searched on Google for porn, they're coming after Mike!