Hi Fellas,
I plan to install a new kitchen in my girlfriends house which is soon to be our house after i sell mine! Anyway first of all, all the sockets in the house are wired on a 30amp ring with also a 30amp radial for the cooker and the present cu has plug-in type fuses so i think a new cu will be in order.
In the new kitchen i plan to have a fridge freezer on a 15amp radial swithed above the work surface, a dishwasher and washing machine on there own 32amp ring also both switched from above, oven and hob and extractor hood on another 32amp ring (oven will be no more than 3kw and hob will be gas) both oven and hob switcable from above the work surface. The rest of the existing sockets in the kitchen will be left as they are and used to plug in only portable equipment eg toaster and mirowave.
I also plan to have under cabinet lighting and plinth lighting both spured off the existing ring main.
As you can see there seems to be a lot of switches and have thought about grid switching but the oven and hob are on one side of the kitchen and the fridgefreezer, dishwsher and washing machine are on another side so one side would be more than 2m away from any grid switching.
Iwould like to be able to split the exisiting ring in the house but trying to find out where the ring goes from downstairs to upstairs may course too much disruption.
Your thoughts and ideas on this matter would be appreciated.
thanks
I plan to install a new kitchen in my girlfriends house which is soon to be our house after i sell mine! Anyway first of all, all the sockets in the house are wired on a 30amp ring with also a 30amp radial for the cooker and the present cu has plug-in type fuses so i think a new cu will be in order.
In the new kitchen i plan to have a fridge freezer on a 15amp radial swithed above the work surface, a dishwasher and washing machine on there own 32amp ring also both switched from above, oven and hob and extractor hood on another 32amp ring (oven will be no more than 3kw and hob will be gas) both oven and hob switcable from above the work surface. The rest of the existing sockets in the kitchen will be left as they are and used to plug in only portable equipment eg toaster and mirowave.
I also plan to have under cabinet lighting and plinth lighting both spured off the existing ring main.
As you can see there seems to be a lot of switches and have thought about grid switching but the oven and hob are on one side of the kitchen and the fridgefreezer, dishwsher and washing machine are on another side so one side would be more than 2m away from any grid switching.
Iwould like to be able to split the exisiting ring in the house but trying to find out where the ring goes from downstairs to upstairs may course too much disruption.
Your thoughts and ideas on this matter would be appreciated.
thanks