Location of socket and isolator switch

[BloodAndBandages]

See attached image. This socket is for a gas hob that will be in the kitchen unit (with drawers) that goes in front of here. The switch next to it is an isolator for a spur off the ring circuit, the cable for which runs up the wall for an extractor hood.

The switch and socket could remain here if I cut a hole in the thin back of the Ikea unit that's going there, so could be accessed by pulling out a drawer.

My question is, is this acceptable or should they be relocated to somewhere more accessible, ie above the worktop?

 

[crystal ball]

Its pretty much up to you and how often you might need to access it, is it your residence or rented out?

 

[BloodAndBandages]

It's our house. Access to this will be rare as the hob only needs power to create a spark and the extractor has its own power switch of course.

I'm installing the kitchen myself and had a spark rewire it a couple of months back. I think he found it very tricky due to the 1950s post-war bomb-proof walls!

 

[oldbutnotdead]

Totally common and standard. The only sticky bit is that hidden socket shouldn't really be used as a safe zone indicator (for buried cables)- if all the cables are buried below worktop height then less of an issue.
Well worth marking hob, extractor inconspicuously (but where anyone working on them will look- inside the filter area on the extract, under the hob where cable entry is) and the drawer in question.

 

[sparkwright]

Do you intend to the wire the gas ignition into that big switch on the left, or are you thinking of replacing it for a plug and socket, or a fused connection unit?

 

[EFLImpudence]

See attached image. This socket is for a gas hob that will be in the kitchen unit

 

[AndyPRK]

I’d just write on the cupboard backing, socket and fan iso behind here

You probably don’t want a hole behind your draw

You could mark out a cut out area

 

[sparkwright]

Ah yes - ta.

Forgot to RTFQ properly.

 

[BloodAndBandages]

Ah yes - ta.

Forgot to RTFQ properly.

The hob has a plug on it.