Where on earth do you dry your hair?

[ynkee0107]

Okay. So I'm American and while I love my adopted home, one thing that really really annoys me about this country is the lack of real plug sockets in bathrooms. (Honestly I could just as easily fill the kitchen sink with water and drop my hairdryer in it if I wanted to off myself... the "safety" issue is a bunch of bs... rant over).

Anyway. Where do you dry your hair?!?

I wash and dry mine every morning. And right now my hair dryer lives in the kitchen (yuck).

I desperately want to use the bathroom mirror but would have to run extension cords through the house.

Suggestions please! :-)

I'm not entirely sure about this and I can't be bothered to google and I'm sure the more knowledgable will correct me - -- but I think you can have a 3pin plug in the bathroom in the UK if the room is big enough to put the plug far enough away from the water sources.

I think the regulations are to do with how close the plug is to water outlets.

This is entirely based on an inference: I used to work somewhere that had a massive loo/shower/bathroom that had a 3pin plug inside the room but by the door so it was well away from the water sources as the room was so big.

I dry my hair in the spare bedroom.

If you can't use the dryer in the bedroom as it would disturb himself, how would it be any better in the ensuite?

This thread reads like a Darwin Awards scenario.

The kitchen. For there is both a mirror and nearby plug and a big box of hairstyling appliances. Simples.

Havent you got a spare bedroom?
Lot's of people don't, you know.

LOL @ spare room,it's a really luxury to have spare rooms!

I dry mine in the kitchen at the opposite end to where all the food prep goes on.

Either in the living room or the hall.

Iv just put an over door mirror on the bathroom door so now I can see in it from the hall if I open the door.

To be honest I'm a turn my head upside down dryer so I don't need a mirror.

Summer fancy pants! 😀

Ah yes, I miss grounded outlets. But really, if you want to complain bemoan the lack of closets! Oh how I miss closets. Or washing machines that get through a normal load of laundry in under 2 hours! Seriously, put the outlet just outside the bathroom and hand the hair dryer just inside.

But the op does has a spare room that she can easily use. Her dh won't be in it if he is asleep!

I don't- it just dries really quickly and straight thankfully! Can't you just leave it?

Can't you just leave it? so speaks the straight haired poster

I'd look like this if I didn't dry my hair

Dressing room.

If he gets a whole room for himself then you should too. If that's not possible then you should be able to share the spare room. Put a mirror on there and use that. It's for his benefit as much as yours so you don't wake him up.

(My hair takes 7-8 hours to dry if I leave it.)

I'm Australian and I hate this too!! I do it in the bedroom.

Kitchen - we have a downstairs bathroom.

The regs changed in 2008 according to this electrical.theiet.org/wiring-matters/53/section-701/index.cfm

Bedroom or frontroom mirror. My mum does hers in the downstairs loo as there's a plug socket in the hallway just outside the door. I've travelled a lot and never missed being without a plug socket in the bathroom when I've come back home. If I moved to a house with one I'd probably have it taken out because of the kids.

Also Australian, also irritates me no end. I believe that you can install electrical outlets 1m clear of water sources, but that's somewhat difficult given the size of a typical UK bathroom.

I've just had my bathroom redone and it is fantastic. I have a massive vanity unit with lots of bench space, a huge flat mirror, and downlights everywhere. It's my reward for 7 years of dire English bathrooms.

I dry my hair in the spare bedroom which has floor boards. I wouldn't do it on carpet as in our main bedroom as you shed a lot of hair using a hairdryer.

Bathroom/ ensuite. I have an extra long cord on my hair dryer, it's plugged in in the bedroom and I dry my hair using the mirror over the bathroom sink. I have miraculously managed never to drop in in the full sink yet .

I get very annoyed here by the lack of a socket in the bathroom. I dry mine in the bedroom, alternatively the hallway if someone is sleeping there -.-

Mine dries naturally but on the rare occasion I do use a hairdryer I do it on the half landing on our stairs where there is a plug socket.

I dry mine in the bedroom. DH doesn't object, but the cat scarpers pronto DH actually finds the sound of the hairdryer soothing, the wierdo.

Are there any other countries in the world that dont have normal electrical outlet sockets for hairdryers etc in the bathroom? Is it just the UK? Am also Australian and don't understand it at all - but then the concept of electrical items being sold int he UK without plugs (???Dear God why????) was an even greater unfathomable mystery to me.....

I leave mine to dry naturally in the evening so rarely use a hairdryer. We have little adapter plugs with 3 pins that you can plug 2 pin things into like electric toothbrush and my epilator. Is it possible to get one that's the other way around?