Bathroom panel

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dm9289

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Would an existing panel be code compliant in a bathroom if the door opens on the outside of the bathroom?
 
dm9289 said:
Would an existing panel be code compliant in a bathroom if the door opens on the outside of the bathroom?
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Sounds like a gray area on a residential bathroom. It must be pretty close to outside the bath. Do you have a pic?
You know, It's okay in commercial not residential
 
There's a lot better way of stating this than "door opens toward another room", that's confusing. Just say it's in a xx room wall that shares a wall with the bathroom. Sharing a wall is not the same as being in a room. You could say a panel is outside but door opens to the inside, doesn't make sense.
The panel is not in the bathroom.
 
Buck Parrish said:
Sounds like a gray area on a residential bathroom. It must be pretty close to outside the bath. Do you have a pic?
You know, It's okay in commercial not residential
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Panel door would open into another room
 
Little Bill said:
There's a lot better way of stating this than "door opens toward another room", that's confusing. Just say it's in a xx room wall that shares a wall with the bathroom. Sharing a wall is not the same as being in a room. You could say a panel is outside but door opens to the inside, doesn't make sense.
The panel is not in the bathroom.
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Yea I prefer how you stated it better. Yes a shared wall
 
LarryFine said:
The description is that there is a panel in a bathroom, but its door opens outside the bathroom.

Thus, I conclude that the back of the panel is toward the bathroom, so it's in the bathroom wall.
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Correct shared partition wall back of panel towards bathroom but covered with dry wall
 
dm9289 said:
Correct shared partition wall back of panel towards bathroom but covered with dry wall
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Semantics…

Then the panel is not in the bathroom. It is in a wall that forms a bathroom wall, but that’s not the same as being in the bathroom.

No problem being in a wall that backs up to a bathroom. I’ve done it a couple of times where they have converted a laundry room next to a garage into another bathroom, and the breaker panel was already on the other side of the (now) bathroom wall in the garage. Both passed planning and inspections.
 
LarryFine said:
The description is that there is a panel in a bathroom, but its door opens outside the bathroom.

Thus, I conclude that the back of the panel is toward the bathroom, so it's in the bathroom wall.
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Looked to me that he said the panel is in the bathroom, but the panel door opens outside the bathroom.

I would interpret that to mean the panel is inside the bathroom, immediately next to bathroom entrance, and that when the panel door is opened it's in a different room than the panel 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️

But he's clarified that it's not inside the bathroom, just in the wall separating the bathroom from the other space
 
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