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Good afternoon all!
We've recently moved to a new house and we're wanting to get the washing machine up and running. In the brochure for the property the previous owners had their washing machine in a specific spot in the kitchen, which we were planning on using as well.
However, there are no plug sockets for the washing machine present. Instead, there is a blanking plate. I have unscrewed this and there are the following wires:
x1 brown
x1 blue
x2 yellow/green
Would it be safe to wire in a single plug socket to replace this blanking plate using the existing wiring? Not sure why there are two yellow/green wires, but I'm not an electrician by trade.
Further down the kitchen there is a dishwasher which seems to be hardwired in. I looked behind this appliance and the cable for it seems to go into a blanking plate. I shouldn't have to cut off the plug and hardwire the washing machine in like this, right?
Just want to make sure I can replace the blanking plate with a plug. Wiring is straight forward from what I see but it's better to be safe than sorry. Just confused where there are two yellow/green wires rather than one for the earth (I assume?).
Thanks in advance!
We've recently moved to a new house and we're wanting to get the washing machine up and running. In the brochure for the property the previous owners had their washing machine in a specific spot in the kitchen, which we were planning on using as well.
However, there are no plug sockets for the washing machine present. Instead, there is a blanking plate. I have unscrewed this and there are the following wires:
x1 brown
x1 blue
x2 yellow/green
Would it be safe to wire in a single plug socket to replace this blanking plate using the existing wiring? Not sure why there are two yellow/green wires, but I'm not an electrician by trade.
Further down the kitchen there is a dishwasher which seems to be hardwired in. I looked behind this appliance and the cable for it seems to go into a blanking plate. I shouldn't have to cut off the plug and hardwire the washing machine in like this, right?
Just want to make sure I can replace the blanking plate with a plug. Wiring is straight forward from what I see but it's better to be safe than sorry. Just confused where there are two yellow/green wires rather than one for the earth (I assume?).
Thanks in advance!