Hi,
I'm having a new kitchen built on the side of my house. I'm going to do as much of the electrical work myself as possible to cut costs, but employ an electrician to advise me, check my design, check my work at stages, and install and connect the consumer unit. I've been reading up extensively on regs but i've hit a problem i can't find an answer to. Please don't reply telling me i should leave it to the electrician.
So the standard kitchen radial above the worktop for sockets is straight forward - horizontal safe zone followed around the wall. My question comes to under worktop appliances. I do not want to place fused spurs above the worktop in the safe zone as i want a minimal look.
If i don't do this, i don't get a vertical safe zone to drop the cable down the wall to behind the unit.
So how do you get mains to the appliances which meets regs, while satisfying the following:
1) No switched fused spurs on show above the worktop
2) No switched sockets behind the unit (inaccessible, and will stop the appliance going flush to the back of the wall)
3) Ideally no switched sockets or spurs cut into the back of the adjacent kitchen unit
I believe my ideal solution would be a grid switch the other side of the wall (which is the utility room), running to unswitched sockets, in the void under the adjacent cabinets sitting on the floor (mounted on timber perhaps).
If that is the case, how do you route the cable to meet regs? Deeper than 50mm isn't an option as it's an internal stud wall with the utility room the other side.
Thanks,
Elliot
I'm having a new kitchen built on the side of my house. I'm going to do as much of the electrical work myself as possible to cut costs, but employ an electrician to advise me, check my design, check my work at stages, and install and connect the consumer unit. I've been reading up extensively on regs but i've hit a problem i can't find an answer to. Please don't reply telling me i should leave it to the electrician.
So the standard kitchen radial above the worktop for sockets is straight forward - horizontal safe zone followed around the wall. My question comes to under worktop appliances. I do not want to place fused spurs above the worktop in the safe zone as i want a minimal look.
If i don't do this, i don't get a vertical safe zone to drop the cable down the wall to behind the unit.
So how do you get mains to the appliances which meets regs, while satisfying the following:
1) No switched fused spurs on show above the worktop
2) No switched sockets behind the unit (inaccessible, and will stop the appliance going flush to the back of the wall)
3) Ideally no switched sockets or spurs cut into the back of the adjacent kitchen unit
I believe my ideal solution would be a grid switch the other side of the wall (which is the utility room), running to unswitched sockets, in the void under the adjacent cabinets sitting on the floor (mounted on timber perhaps).
If that is the case, how do you route the cable to meet regs? Deeper than 50mm isn't an option as it's an internal stud wall with the utility room the other side.
Thanks,
Elliot