A commentator on another site said he had a brother who was a contractor in the UK and they are not allowed to install outlets in bathrooms at all. I don't know about the veracity of that comment, but it might explain the extension cord to the outlet in the hallway. . .
I sure wouldn’t want a 240V outlet in my bathroom.
But how do they deal with hair driers, electric razors, electric toothbrush, etc. with no outlets?
It’s true. There aren’t outlets in British bathrooms. There are small power points for electrics shavers, but that’s it. Ya can’t use a hair dryer in the loo.
Yep, in the category of legislating risk into people’s lives. If there were outlets in the bathroom, they’d have to have GFI, and that would protect him. But instead we “protect” him by not having an outlet at all, so he plugs into an unprotected outlet with an extension cord.