Height of Sockets

[martinatkinsoncox]

I am about to fit new sockets to my extension and have been told that new reg's have come into force with regard to the minimum height of sockets from the floor and work tops in the kitchen. Does anyone know if this is so?

 

[alexnic]

It's a recommendation ...not a requirement, it's recommended that the minimum height to the bottom of a socket is 450mm and 1200mm for light switches (+ sockets, TV sockets, Telephone outlets -- to accommodate disabled people)

KItchen sockets above worktops... you are limited to where you can put these anyway, normally centred between the w/top and wall unit.

 

[amtodd]

Guide to regs:-

"Where a socket is mounted on a vertical wall, its height above the floor level or the working surface level level must be such that mechanical damage is unlikely. A minimum mounting height of 150 mm (above the floor / or worktop) is recommended."

 

[GwaiLo]

See this for sockets, but bear in mind it is not a requirement for extensions to dwellings, just a good idea if it is convenient.


There are no regulations about worktop heights in kitchens in dwellings.

 

[Scoby_Beasley]

There are no regulations about worktop heights in kitchens in dwellings.

YET !!!

 

[martinatkinsoncox]

Thank you for your help.

Martin

 

[masona]

So the height of the door handle can go as low as 450mm, that'll be handy when you're drunk Scoby eh ?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

...There are no regulations about worktop heights in kitchens in dwellings.

Saved by the Great GwaiLo again!

martinatkinsoncox - shame on you for writing "the minimum height of sockets from the floor and work tops in the kitchen". I think you deliberately tried to make us think that you meant the minimum height of sockets from the floor and sockets from worktops, by starting your question "I am about to fit new sockets to my extension".

You may have fooled all of us, but you must know that the Great Gwailo is not so easily misled.

 

[GwaiLo]

ban all sheds.

I have clearly ****ed you off and it seems your intention now is to look for real or percieved errors in any post of mine you see.

My reply answered the chaps question, whichever way you chose to interpret it, and I am here to offer any help I can.

Yours appears to be to attempt to score points and pretend you are superior and you are really getting to be a bore.

In future you can expcet but one response fro me. Douchebag!

 

[Scoby_Beasley]

So the height of the door handle can go as low as 450mm, that'll be handy when you're drunk Scoby eh ?

Could just manage that, but need a funnel (tundish) to get key in door !!

 

[il78]

So how high from the floor would you say that was.......skirting trunking lovely stuff.....looks great in the living room

Awaiting a negative reply

 

[XP]

Any chance of B-A-S and Gwailo kissing and making up ?

 

[ban-all-sheds]

il78 - that stuff is over £15/m - anybody rich enough to run that around their living room can afford to pay somebody else to look at it for them.

XP - it's OK, I've had my fun now. I did start out really hacked off at GwaiLo's persistent refusal to see where he'd gone wrong with the thread about Scottish regulations, particularly when he tried to claim that he couldn't possibly have realised I was addressing alexnic because my post followed his, when in fact it followed alexnics, but by the end I realised that it wasn't personal - he misreads, or re-interprets everybody's posts, and replies to questions or comments that he thinks they've made, rather than what they have actually written. I was actually sitting here laughing as I did the last few responses.

 

[il78]

I was actually sitting here laughing as I did the last few responses.

I didn't think it was in you

 

[ban-all-sheds]

Oh I'm easily amused