10mm².
I agree they are ugly but if I'm honest I think they are useful and certainly more attractive than a long row of FCU's or dotted around the kitchen.
They do - and not only that, but switches that are usually accessible by small children.
As I've often observed, whilst that that is one of the arguments for a 'local emergency switch (not that 'turning off the power' will usually make much difference if the appliance is already 'aflame'!), people often have a habit of positioning those switches such that one would have to reach over the flames (and/or maybe an appliance with a live casing) to get at the switch.
This has suddenly made me realise I need to make some alteratons as since we refitted the kitchen we have replaced WM, DW & tumble, none of them have mains switches and all are plugged into inaccesible sockets.
I saw this last week and was curious why an electrician would see this happening and not raise a concern at the time.Ha, that's no guarantee
The house my mother was thinking of buying had several significant departures from regs - cables not in safe zones, cables (main meter tails) buried less than 50mm and not RCD protected. In a way it's a pity she pulled out from buying it as I was looking forward to getting NIC onsite and asking why there was a fraudulent installation certificate for the electrics
I confess I was expecting some sort of retort from Winston Now that his silly comments have been shown to be foundless.
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