Second charging drawer question for a bathroom

[Anonymous]

3 kids share the bathroom, and we are redoing it. They all have electric toothbrushes, plus whatever else electric they will need as they get older. I'm trying to figure out how to eliminate all the cords. Could I do a charging drawer for the top drawer, and feed the cords for the toothbrushes (and other things) through the countertop? Any other ideas?

[Anonymous]

I would not cut holes in the counter for this. Especially in a kids’ bath with water spills. Can’t the kids charge occasionally and put the chargers back? Or switch to battery operated toothbrushes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I would not cut holes in the counter for this. Especially in a kids’ bath with water spills. Can’t the kids charge occasionally and put the chargers back? Or switch to battery operated toothbrushes?

OP here, and great point about water spills, especially when it would spill into the drawer with electrical outlets!

[Anonymous]

Do you have any closed storage (like a cabinet) where you could put an outlet? That might work better.

[Anonymous]

When we updated our bathroom we added vanities with charging outlets in the drawers. There are lots of options if you google it. Or you can have an electrician add some.

[Anonymous]

They can share one toothbrush charger.

[Anonymous]

Putting outlets in the drawers is a good idea but they’ll just need to stick their toothbrushes in there to charge. You don’t have to charge them that often anyway.

[Anonymous]

If you have a wall cabinet, if it is surface mounted on the wall you can put an outlet in the back of the cabinet, in the wall. If the cabinet is recessed, in the wall, you can use a flush-mount outlet like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YE2I0U/?th=1

In either case it needs to be ground-fault protected, so it needs to be connected to a GFI outlet. An electrician will know what to do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you have a wall cabinet, if it is surface mounted on the wall you can put an outlet in the back of the cabinet, in the wall. If the cabinet is recessed, in the wall, you can use a flush-mount outlet like this:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002YE2I0U/?th=1

In either case it needs to be ground-fault protected, so it needs to be connected to a GFI outlet. An electrician will know what to do.

This is what we did. We had an electrician add a new wall outlet in the back of a wall mounted cabinet we have over our toilet for the electric toothbrushes.