The kitchen you go on to illustrate seems to show little, if anything, of an 'electrical installation', other than the lights (and maybe one visible accessory)
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Help with kitchen rewire and heating costs estimate pls
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Next, comes the free attempt at an ad!
Indeed - it did occur to me that, although it was not really worded as such, it was quite close to being an ad!
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This is a finished kitchen completed by me.The kitchen you go on to illustrate seems to show little, if anything, of an 'electrical installation', other than the lights (and maybe one visible accessory)
Its one of those newfangled wireless efforts.
All controlled by an monthly subscription to the mind control device and the electricity magically floats via the ether to the appliances.
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f you have any questions about renovation costs and pricing, feel free to ask me anything.
Where/how do you plug the kettle in?
That's what I assumed. Where is the 'electrical installation' and, specifically (as has been asked) where does one 'plug things in'? Are the sockets (assuming there are some!) perhaps all hidden in cupboards and drawers?
Ah, I see!
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Here are the sockets hidden inside the units. The ones on the worktop area are fitted underneath the wall units if you look carefully. And on the left on the wall above the worktop.
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I am an architect and builder. I carry out and price all types of renovations.
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I carry out renovations in Spain, but I can provide quotes and advice. Feel free to ask me any technical questions or anything you like
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I have seen phone chargers with induction loop, and I know there was talk about high-powered versions, but in the UK kitchen we use what is available in our retail outlets, and I know I have problems working out how to get power to the central island my wife wants.
I am dragged around kitchen showrooms, and my thoughts are, this is a showroom, so expect the best, so I know from time to time, things will boil over, on any hob, so the hob needs to be arranged so if that happens the water does not go onto the work top, and also it does not compromise controls.
So in the main touch controls are out, simple knob is far better, it will not be affected by spillage, you can still use them even if hob awash with water, and the hob should be slightly lower than work surfaces, so any spillage will not contaminate items on the work surface. To me this seems common sense, but so many show rooms have touch controls, and the hob is slightly above the work top. Such a fundamental error, so don't trust anything else they show.
OK I had problems with touch controls, with late mother in a wheelchair, the main one was them being invisible. As I bent down to mothers eye level, all the touch controls could not be seen any more. Yes I know children should not be using the hob, but the warnings should be visible to a child.
Today I find we are using so many kitchen plug in appliances, we have two microwaves stacked, a double air fryer, mixers, blenders etc. and the kitchen wall cupboards are too low to use the Kenwood chef, even stand-alone blenders are quite tall, which is why my wife wants the centre island, as so much can't be used due to being too tall. But this equipment is not new, it has been around for years.
We have talked a few times about the cooker hood, clearly with gas, essential to take combustion gases outside, but with an induction hob, cooking smells are not really a problem, and so the cooker hood hardly ever used, in the main only the lights are used.
But my main problem is a wife who impulse buys, I never see her going through the cupboards making a list, she walks around the shop and buys what is on offer, and Sidoli Factory Shop does not help, stuff is excellent, but all frozen, so she comes home with more than will fit in the front kitchen freezers, so it overflows into the back kitchen freezer, then forgotten about.
But due to Sidoli Factory Shop the chest freezer is a must, but also we live at least 8 miles from most shops, so want a weeks shopping in one go, 26 miles to Shrewsbury, so storage is important.
Now last house, Lidi, Aldi, Tesco, etc, 2 miles down the road, in Mold, so did not need as much stock. And storage does affect kitchen design. I curse the centre island, if nothing on the floor, great, but there is always something on the floor.
I am dragged around kitchen showrooms, and my thoughts are, this is a showroom, so expect the best, so I know from time to time, things will boil over, on any hob, so the hob needs to be arranged so if that happens the water does not go onto the work top, and also it does not compromise controls.
So in the main touch controls are out, simple knob is far better, it will not be affected by spillage, you can still use them even if hob awash with water, and the hob should be slightly lower than work surfaces, so any spillage will not contaminate items on the work surface. To me this seems common sense, but so many show rooms have touch controls, and the hob is slightly above the work top. Such a fundamental error, so don't trust anything else they show.
OK I had problems with touch controls, with late mother in a wheelchair, the main one was them being invisible. As I bent down to mothers eye level, all the touch controls could not be seen any more. Yes I know children should not be using the hob, but the warnings should be visible to a child.
Today I find we are using so many kitchen plug in appliances, we have two microwaves stacked, a double air fryer, mixers, blenders etc. and the kitchen wall cupboards are too low to use the Kenwood chef, even stand-alone blenders are quite tall, which is why my wife wants the centre island, as so much can't be used due to being too tall. But this equipment is not new, it has been around for years.
We have talked a few times about the cooker hood, clearly with gas, essential to take combustion gases outside, but with an induction hob, cooking smells are not really a problem, and so the cooker hood hardly ever used, in the main only the lights are used.
But my main problem is a wife who impulse buys, I never see her going through the cupboards making a list, she walks around the shop and buys what is on offer, and Sidoli Factory Shop does not help, stuff is excellent, but all frozen, so she comes home with more than will fit in the front kitchen freezers, so it overflows into the back kitchen freezer, then forgotten about.
But due to Sidoli Factory Shop the chest freezer is a must, but also we live at least 8 miles from most shops, so want a weeks shopping in one go, 26 miles to Shrewsbury, so storage is important.
Now last house, Lidi, Aldi, Tesco, etc, 2 miles down the road, in Mold, so did not need as much stock. And storage does affect kitchen design. I curse the centre island, if nothing on the floor, great, but there is always something on the floor.
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