Safe Use of BEKO WMI 71442 Washing Machine & Bosch WTH8500FPL Dryer on One Socket

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Hi i am totally green on these issues. I have an apartment completed in 2012, I want to install a BEKO WMI 71442 washing machine and a Bosch WTH8500FPL dryer in the bathroom. Unfortunately, I only have one socket, so the devices would have to work on an extension cord. Is it safe? I do not want...

Ktoś_tam · Accepted Answer

Yes, manufacturers of devices with more power (e.g. washing machine) do not recommend connecting to an extension cord. You are probably in the vast majority of what you never read the manual. In the manuals that I read, it was such a recommendation. Probably this recommendation is because, for most people, an extension cord is an extension cord. I will connect like the one from the link in this thread and having 5 more free additional sockets, it will connect a few more devices to it. Or connect an extension cord without a protective conductor. Or put an extension cord on the floor and the washing machine floods. Or connect a 0.75mm extension cable. Or connect an IP20 extension cord in the bathroom. By the way, who is offering an extension cord or a socket for a bathroom with IP20 tightness?

niewolno2 · Answer

Manufacturers do not recommend extension cords for correct connection to the installation.

elpapiotr · Answer

Oh, that's some news. What is the correctness about?

Magic_moon · Answer

I don't know the problem in using an extension cord. Just buy something decent like Legrand.
You can have two devices attached to the extension cord. After all, they will not work?

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niewolno2 wrote:
Manufacturers do not recommend extension cords for correct connection to the installation.

Where is it written?

kkas12 · Answer

A washing machine in the bathroom and a dryer. The iron will be mounted there, it will be a complete set. Three in one. And an extension cord.
I wouldn't like to be a bad prophet, but Grim Reaper must be rubbing his paws.
And there should be enough sockets to eliminate the use of extension cords.

CYRUS2 · Answer

I rummaged in the Legrand offers, all goodies (USB switches) and the parameters poor and somewhere in the corner. Someone get the author an extension cord. There are ready-made 1.5m and 2.5m 3x1.5mm2 cables

Magic_moon · Answer

You searched poorly. are also without protection (ordinary) I have two of them myself.

takijasiu · Answer

Seriously - such an extension cord for the bathroom?

In general, according to the art, there should be a separate circuit with only one socket for each device above 2kW - if the washing machine and dryer are each of more than 2kW, then the installation of such a splitter seems to be against this rule by 2kW.

Bosch WTH8500FPL has a connection power of 600W (https://www.bosch-home.pl/lista-produktow/pranie-i-suszenie/suszarki-do-ubran/suszarki-z-pompa-ciepla/WTH8500FPL#/Tabs=section) -technicalspecs / Togglebox = -1142913952 / Togglebox = -1464035028 / Togglebox = 484132764 / Togglebox = 830275007 / Togglebox = -1008297566 /)

BEKO WMI 71442 has a connection power of 2200W - admittedly according to British specification: https://storage.beko.co.uk/bekoupload/manuals/WMB71442.pdf

CYRUS2 · Answer

Do not take out on the author of the topic. This is not why the author of the topic set up the topic. It is as it is, the author of tiles and walls will not be ripped apart. Author - you wrote that there is one outlet. Can't double socket be used?

Duelowsky · Answer

Thanks for the advice and answers. As for a double socket - I need a solution for now, without the help of an electrician, I do not know if I would be able to install this socket, if it is not some rocket science then I will consider it - I will do research. Thanks!

CYRUS2 · Answer

You put the socket in the can. Same can. You connect the same 3 wires. W6AIViISyCh1PKgjREAQYAiABEgKe_fD_BwE

niewolno2 · Answer

There are opponents and supporters of the use of pseudo extension cords, as a last resort all responsibility falls to the so-called owner of this extension cord. As for reading and understanding the manual, the second thing is, most do not even look at it, and then the problem is that something is wrong and that the equipment broke down by itself.

kkas12 · Answer

Don't write nonsense about the use of extension cords in bathrooms. An electrician should be aware of the danger this extension cord poses.
It is the promoters of such a solution that will be responsible for the consequences of a possible accident.
Even moral responsibility.

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