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Big Tone
I’ve got a job to do for someone tonight which strictly speaking would be best done by fitting a spur, but I am considering doing it a different way.
I’m going to fit a brand new dishwasher under someone’s kitchen counter. A spur could easily come down from the double socket above the counter but this means breaking tiles; tiles for which she has no replacement! (I’m sure others have been here before)
When I say “easily” it would mean digging out a channel to run down under the tiles & plasterwork and past the counter underneath to mount the spur for the dishwasher; obviously. Not a big deal but it’s going to be messy, time-consuming, more expense, but most of all it’ll look like poop because she hasn’t any matching tiles.
The way I have seen others do it is simply to drill a small hole through the counter close to the wall just large enough for the 13 amp flex to pass through. The dishwasher just plugs into the existing sockets above the counter and has the advantage of easy access to switch off/on at the wall. But because the dishwasher has a moulded plug I’d have to cut that off in order to thread the wire through and reattach a different plug. (Uh oh!)
Now I don’t see any problem with this and people here will understand I haven’t compromised any electric safety, provided I do it right of course. However, if the machine broke down would the manufacturer honour any warrantee or will some jobs-worth say it’s null and void just because it’s got a different plug on the end?
Incidentally, while I’m at it, I have considered also making the lead longer by using an in-line 13 amp 3 pin flex connector to make getting in behind the washer easier to fit or clean/service.
What I’m proposing is only what I have seen others do on occasion in the past. So it’s neither original nor dangerous as far as I am aware, but I am concerned about the warrantee more than anything else.
I’m going to fit a brand new dishwasher under someone’s kitchen counter. A spur could easily come down from the double socket above the counter but this means breaking tiles; tiles for which she has no replacement! (I’m sure others have been here before)
When I say “easily” it would mean digging out a channel to run down under the tiles & plasterwork and past the counter underneath to mount the spur for the dishwasher; obviously. Not a big deal but it’s going to be messy, time-consuming, more expense, but most of all it’ll look like poop because she hasn’t any matching tiles.
The way I have seen others do it is simply to drill a small hole through the counter close to the wall just large enough for the 13 amp flex to pass through. The dishwasher just plugs into the existing sockets above the counter and has the advantage of easy access to switch off/on at the wall. But because the dishwasher has a moulded plug I’d have to cut that off in order to thread the wire through and reattach a different plug. (Uh oh!)
Now I don’t see any problem with this and people here will understand I haven’t compromised any electric safety, provided I do it right of course. However, if the machine broke down would the manufacturer honour any warrantee or will some jobs-worth say it’s null and void just because it’s got a different plug on the end?
Incidentally, while I’m at it, I have considered also making the lead longer by using an in-line 13 amp 3 pin flex connector to make getting in behind the washer easier to fit or clean/service.
What I’m proposing is only what I have seen others do on occasion in the past. So it’s neither original nor dangerous as far as I am aware, but I am concerned about the warrantee more than anything else.