Rubber SHoes In Shower

[Neeranam]

Can wearing rubber "gerb keep" in a shower prevent an electric shock or is it a waste of time?

[Spoonman]

How would you clean between your toes ?

[cooked]

Rubber shower mat, Homepro.

[Neeranam]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You obviously don't know 'gerb keep'

[transam]

Don't know but something tells me the water flow is a continuous connection to ground with you in it.

[Neeranam]

Rubber shower mat, Homepro.

The question was whether or not rubber would save from an electric shock.

[mickjn]

In a Thai Shower yes in a Farang Shower,shower over bath no

[jackr]

No, but a good, insulated, earthed shower unit will.

[mickjn]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You do it out of the shower when you sit in a chair

[Satcommlee]

The problem may be when the water is running through the pipes and making a weak Ground/Earth connection, this was the case in a house I stayed at.

I'd try and find the fault when not using the shower with a voltmeter but everything seemed normal...

Only when I was in the shower and the water was running would I feel electrical tingles from the metal taps etc.

Water is a very poor conductor so the shocks were not serious, but the only way to end it once and for all was to run a proper electrical earth to ground, problem solved..

I don't think rubber shoes would have helped in my case.

[transam]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You do it out of the shower when you sit in a chair

Then break your neck slipping on the wet floor. .....................

[cooked]

Rubber shower mat, Homepro.

The question was whether or not rubber would save from an electric shock.

well that puts me in my place for trying to be helpful. Answer: no they won't as you will be wet through anyway, which you might have been able to work out for yourself.

[PeterSmiles]

In a Thai Shower yes in a Farang Shower,shower over bath no

Thai shower as in bucket of water with a bowl ?

I believe that there is no risk of electrocution,

[Spoonman]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You obviously don't know 'gerb keep'

Yeah obviously, Google does not seem to know gerb either.

[mrtoad]

Is this really a post about is it ok to wear a gimp outfit in the shower?

[Jack Mountain]

Would an earthleak switch the solution? or is that not possible with heaters.

[suthansman]

Never mind rubber shoes or mats.

Wear a condom over your manhood to prevent a shock in the more delicate regions of your anatomy

[Crossy]

No, but a good, insulated, earthed shower unit will.

+1, add an RCD and all is hunky-dory.

[ravip]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You obviously don't know 'gerb keep'

No I don't!

Please tell me.

[OZEMADE]

Water is a great conductor, so if you are in the shower and you dont have your shower earthed as a lot in Thailand are not earthed, you stand a good chance of dying from an electric shock as a lot of people here have done already.

[somchaismith]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You obviously don't know 'gerb keep'

No I don't!

Please tell me.

I didn't either, so I googled it and it seems that it's a political party in Bulgaria.

[celso]

Yes! A rubber mat or rubber shoes will work perfectly.

As long as there is no water running, making a connection all the way from the shower, to your body, and down into the ground!

[ravip]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You obviously don't know 'gerb keep'

No I don't!

Please tell me.

I didn't either, so I googled it and it seems that it's a political party in Bulgaria.

I did Google it too - but the results that came seems not to apply for this.

Maybe, if you join that political party in Bulgaria you can have an electric hot water shower safely?

[Aussieroaming]

How would you clean between your toes ?

You obviously don't know 'gerb keep'

No I don't!

Please tell me.

I didn't either, so I googled it and it seems that it's a political party in Bulgaria.

I think its a short phrase for where he keeps his gerbil when he showers

[somchaismith]

Of course it would be a waste of time as the rubber would have to be dry. Therefore the only way for that to happen would be that the shower had no running water.

[mogandave]

I think pure water does not conduct electricity, but the minerals in the water do.

Regardless, the mat would not help.

As others have indicated, a good ground is needed, One of the big downsides to the PVC plumbing is that unlike copper of even galvanized, it does not provide a good ground.

[canuckamuck]

Lots of people dead from unsafely wired shower heaters. No your rubber shoes won't save you.

Get it wired right.

[Soutpeel]

In a Thai Shower yes in a Farang Shower,shower over bath no

Thai shower as in bucket of water with a bowl ?

I believe that there is no risk of electrocution,

Exactly we have posters on TV who claim to be at one with their Thainess, and strongly criticise other farangs for not embracing their Thainess, but yet here we are discussing "electric" showers, not very "thai" if you ask me

[Neeranam]

Rubber shower mat, Homepro.

The question was whether or not rubber would save from an electric shock.

well that puts me in my place for trying to be helpful. Answer: no they won't as you will be wet through anyway, which you might have been able to work out for yourself.

So will a rubber mat from Homepro save from an electric shock?

[Neeranam]

WE do have a ground rod made of copper but it is only about 1m long. The shower also has some built in circuit breaker or something. Maybe I am paranoid but still don't feel totally relaxed in the hot shoer.