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John Deo
John Deo asked in Home & GardenMaintenance & Repairs · 5 years ago

Can a mist build up in bathroom electrocute connecting to the bathroom ceiling light fixture or the wall receptacle (outlet)?

I usually heat the otherwise unheated bathroom by a portable plastic space heater, then turn it off, pull the cord from the wall outlet and take a shower, yet I am afraid the steam build up (because the bathroom window is closed to not let cold air into the bathroom) may electricute me if I don't open the window into the cold, because the ceiling light fixture is up there. Is the ceiling light fixture a hazard if the bathroom gets too saturated with shower water mist? So what I would like to do is to keep on running the space heater throughout my shower time and sometimes have a window cracked also, but not always. CONTINUED BELOW.....

Update:

My concern is not fire since I take showers with shower curtain on and it does not splash that far, but my concern can it electricute if mist build up is dense enough or is there not a chance of electricution over the distance by mist build up? CONTINUED BELOW.....

Update 2:

I take a shower in a bathtub, behind a shower curtain, which I seal by water and the space heater is at another end of the bathroom, which is about 2 meters away and is behind a toilet bowl. Water splashing onto the space heater is impossible, but is electricution by steam/mist build up in the bathroom a danger? CONTINUED BELOW.....yahoo, really!?

Update 3:

From either the portable space heater or even from the light fixture? I also have two electrical outlets in the bathroom away from the bath tub. They have "doors" on them, but when space heater is in the wall socket the outlet's door is lifted to let the "male" plug in to connect the space heater. I think I did this once when I forgot to turn off the space heater, but I wonder if there is any chance of risk over many times doing this? Not water splashing, but I mean the mist build up.

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  • c_kayak_fun
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    Mist is not an electrical conductor. What you are imagining is not possible.

    Source(s): licensed electrician for 35 years.
  • Grillparzer
    Lv 7
    5 years ago

    No, there isn t a high enough concentration of moisture to do anything like that.

  • JMR
    5 years ago

    Not possible. You're fine.

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