Advice from an electrician please?

Soldato
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Hi,

I have a friend renting a house, who is concerned that a light switch is positioned dangerously within her property.
I've attached a picture below, it is only a few inches from the kitchen sink, and also in a position where driving rain can land on it when the door is opened.

Is she right to be concerned? Her letting agency have told her that the house has passed an electrical safety check and therefore the switch is safe, but if the opinion is that it isn't I don't mind paying for her to have a sparky out to condemn it so that they have to do something about it and keep her and her family safe.

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Efour - it's a close family friend who I wouldn't want to see come to any harm, and if it has to be condemned I'll pursue the letting agency to get the callout fee back.

Davido - wires run out the back of the box, behind the carcass below the sink. Assume they then run up within the dry lining on the reveal, but haven't ripped the kitchen apart to look. Again, only an assumption - but if the wires are behind the box and the silicone fails around the sink then any water on the worktop could leak onto and run down the wires into the box.

Appreciate it if anyone replying who is a qualified electrician could make it clear in their reply so that I know I'm not just throwing money away getting one out for her.
 
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