Re: Re:In wall touch panel heights to comply with building regs

["Tracey Gardner" <tracey.gardner@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Ian

Part M has been around for some time now and calls for light switches to be
no higher than 1200mm and sockets to be no lower than 450mm.
Don't forget that 1500mm may seem nice to an able bodied person like you,
but these changes were all intended to make life easier for wheelchair
bound
people.

Tracey

> Wow, is this some new regulation? Our switches are all at 1500mm,
which
> seems like a nice height to me. There is also some regulation that new
> sockets need to be half way up the wall rather than in the skirting
> board as is traditional.
>
> If this madness continues, sockets will be where switches were and
we'll
> all have to work switches with our feet!
>


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