Bathroom Electrical Schedule (India): A Point-by-Point Wiring Table with Heights, Loads, Circuits & IP Zones

An electrician wires what the drawing tells them, and if the drawing is vague the geyser point lands over the shower, the switch sits inside the splash zone, and nobody remembers whether the whole room is on a 30 mA RCD. This document fixes that. It is the electrical points schedule you fill in at the layout stage and hand to site — a single table that fixes every point's height, load, circuit and IP zone before the wall is chased and tiled. It sits alongside the bathroom design checklist and the bathroom plumbing schedule, and it is the on-site companion to the bathroom electrical code guide.

Copy the tables below into your BOQ or MEP sheet and adapt the rows to the actual room. Every figure here is indicative — the right height and load depend on the fittings you have actually specified, the geyser rating, the ceiling height and your city's supply — so verify each line against the product, the drawing and a licensed electrical contractor before it is issued for construction.

The two rules that never bend in an Indian bathroom: every circuit serving the room is on a 30 mA RCD (RCBO or RCCB), and every switch and socket sits outside the wet zone or is IP-rated for where it is. Get those two right and most of the danger is gone.

How to use this document

The schedule is filled in during design, verified at first fix, and signed off at testing. Here is the sequence and who owns each step.

Fill the point schedule first, because heights and IP zones drive where the conduit runs and which points must be moved out of Zone 1 before the tiler arrives. FFL means finished floor level — every height is measured from the final tiled floor, not the slab, so allow for screed and tile thickness (typically 50–75 mm) when you set out.

The point schedule — the deliverable

This is the core table. One row per electrical point, with everything the electrician needs. The example rows are a typical Indian family bathroom with a storage geyser, an exhaust fan, a mirror light and a vanity; add, delete or renumber rows to match your room.

Read the columns together. The height stops the point landing in a splash line; the IP zone decides whether the fitting is even allowed there; the circuit and load decide the cable size and MCB rating; and the protection column is where the 30 mA RCD lives. The geyser earns a dedicated circuit because it is the biggest continuous load in the room — never hang it off the lighting or the bedroom socket circuit.

Standard mounting heights

Heights are the single most-asked question on site, so give the electrician a clean reference. These are typical Indian setting-out heights from FFL; adjust for a taller family, a wall-hung WC, or a client brief.

IP-zone reference

The whole safety logic of a wet room is the zone system: the closer to water, the higher the ingress protection the fitting must have, and the more restricted what is allowed at all. Use this to check every row of the point schedule.

Protection, earthing and circuits

Two safety systems carry the room. The first is the 30 mA RCD — a residual-current device that cuts power in milliseconds if current leaks to earth, which in a wet room is the difference between a shock and a fatality. Put every bathroom circuit behind one, either as a RCBO per circuit (best — a fault trips only that circuit) or a shared RCCB on the group. The geyser and any smart-WC point deserve their own RCBO so a nuisance trip does not kill the lights.

The second is earthing to IS 3043 — the code of practice for earthing. Every metal fitting and the geyser body must be bonded to earth, with supplementary equipotential bonding tying together exposed metal (pipes, the geyser, metal frames) so no dangerous voltage can appear between two things a wet hand might touch at once. Confirm earth continuity at testing, not by assumption.

Common mistakes

• Switch inside the room, in the wet zone — the light/fan switch belongs outside the door or on a dry wall. A switch in Zone 1 or 2 is a code failure and a hazard.
• Geyser on a shared circuit — a 2–3 kW geyser must have a dedicated radial and its own isolator, not a spur off the lights.
• No 30 mA RCD, or one that is never tested — an RCD that will not trip is worse than none because it looks safe. Test it at sign-off and hand the client the test-button habit.
• Heights set from the slab, not FFL — forgetting screed and tile thickness drops every point 50–75 mm low. Always measure from finished floor.
• Ordinary fittings in Zone 1/2 — a non-IP downlight over the shower, a normal socket by the basin. Match the IP rating to the zone, every time.
• Skipping supplementary bonding — bond the geyser and metal pipework; do not assume the main earth reaches every fitting.

Verify this schedule against your actual fittings, the sanctioned drawing, IS 732 wiring practice, IS 3043 earthing and a licensed electrical contractor before it goes to site. A template gets you 90 percent of the way; the professional signature closes the last 10.

Related resources & guides

• Bathroom design checklist (India) — the master room checklist this schedule plugs into.
• Bathroom electrical code (India) — the code detail behind the zones, RCD and earthing rules.
• Bathroom plumbing schedule (India) — the sibling working schedule for water and drainage points.
• Bathroom lighting guide (India) — how to choose and place the mirror, vanity and general lights in this schedule.