Bathroom Phones

high voltage

Does the NEC address how telephones are installed in bathrooms? I never gave much thought, accept the ringer can have 90+ volts when ringing. Does the phone need to be a certain distance from a water source?

mdshunk

Oddly, the NEC does not address this.

In fact, there are commercially available shower units with phones installed in them from the factory.

jmic

Can you hear me now?

mas2006

Now if I can just get this smellophone prototype to work. LMAO

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Safety-Guy

Laughing so hard I splurfed Coca~Cola on my screen

Glasshousebltr

Yes sir eeee, nothing like doing business while floating a log.

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Mike Finley

Glad to know I'm not the only one who has done that. Makes for some creative times to cover over the reciever end of the phone and of course you need a pretty big pause to cover the flushing!

A+Carpenter

My brother-in-law has one of them phones in his bathroom. I have 2 phones in mine. CELL PHONES

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Teetorbilt

I feel that there are some times that one is allowed complete privacy. In the bathroom is one of those times.

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747

I personally think a phone jack in a bathroom is obsolete these days. The majority of people use wireless phones in there home. Those were big before wireless in my oppion. I agree with teetor who needs the phone ringing when your in the bathroom.

Mike Finley

Come on now 747, you never been on the phone with a long winded customer or vendor and have to go really bad? All you gotta do is tell them hold on a second, I'm switching over to the crap phone.

747

I honestly can say no to customer and no to vendor. But just about every hotel i stay in have one next to the toliet.

mdshunk

I just got my memory jogged. Do any of you guys remember the "confidencer" mouthpiece that you could screw on the old style Stromberg/Westinghouse G type handsets? It was for bathroom phones, and it filtered out ambient sounds (like plopping, tinkles, and flushing), and only transmitted what was spoken directly into the mouthpiece.

http://www.roanwellcorp.com/confid%20car.htm

jbfan

MD> You're not that old are you???????????

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mdshunk

Nope, but the G and K type handsets remain popular yet today.