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Sorry i'm not sure what you mean about twin and earth? Is the portable socket not just the same as a one that screws to the wall, but portable?

If i remove the junction box and add the extension socket to the cable that runs off the isolation switch, then plug the oven hood into this extension socket am I good to go? There's a 3amp fuse in the isolation switch, and the plug on the oven hood will have a 3amp fuse in it to, so does that...

If the cable has an isolation switch on the worktop that it feeds from would it be classed as fed from a socket? And to answer your question... when I cut said cable away from the old oven hood there was a live, neutral and earth.

Can I not just fit one of the things in the image above? I don't need a socket above the units, I presume this would mean drilling a hole in the wall etc, I just need something to stick the oven hood's plug into, I don't mind if it's loose...

The junction box is loose on top of the wall units, along with about a metre and a half of cable. There's a cable runs from an isolation switch on the tiled wall, up the back of the units into the junction box, then the cable comes back down behind the unit and was hard wired into the old...

There's no room for a surface mounted socket, the wall is tiled and the cable the original hood was plugged in to feeds down loose behind a wall unit, and i'm after a quick fix. Can the hood not just plug into the extension socket if I add it to the end of the cable? What is the purpose...

I've removed a very old cooker hood that was hard wired above our cooker and want to install a new one. Problem is, the new hood has a plug attached and I don't want to try hard wiring it. So my question, is there any way of attaching a 'portable socket' to the cable that supplies power...

I can't say for certain that I've sorted the dodgy line under the worktop, all I've done is fit a new socket and cut away the heat damaged wire to new bare copper. I did check the fuse in the switch above the worktop and it was fine, swapped it for another too and same problem. If it...

Thanks John, I might just get my mate in to see what's what, feel like I've got as far down the DIY road as I can go on this one, plus I need a couple of extra sockets putting in to so he may as well do everything at the same time.

Followed a previous poster's advice and cut back and stripped any damage wire to bare clean copper, wired everything back up in the new socket i bought and still same problem happening- socket appears live but nothing works in it. I've attched a couple of pics of the isolation switch for the...

Tested it with the volt pen - it bleeped before knocking the power off, then didn't bleep once the power was off, so I assumed as much as I could that it was dead. Grabbed hold of it... dead.

Yes there is a switch above the worktop to turn the socket on or off. I did consider if this could also be the cause but everything worked fine until I unplugged the washing machine from the socket, so I'm presuming it's something wrong with the socket as a previous poster said, the heat damage...