Meet the Other Phone. A phone that grows with your child.

Meet the Other Phone.
A phone that grows with your child.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Property/DIY

Join our Property forum for renovation, DIY, and house selling advice.

Anyone with professional knowledge about electrical switches and sockets in open living area kitchen?

3 replies

CelineW · 11/02/2017 15:35

My four years old daughter and I moved in a newly built property two years ago. I have concerns about our kitchen area with electrical switches and sockets so close to the cooker top edges, and the sink basin. Our only electrical sockets are at the L corner of our kitchen. To have access to them and the appliances plugged into them we have to lean over our cooker top - risking burns from the hubs and oven - and sink drainer. I have concerns about my daughter and mine safety. See photos attach.
Our landlord is ignoring my concerns. What can I do?

Anyone with professional knowledge about electrical switches and sockets in open living area kitchen?
Anyone with professional knowledge about electrical switches and sockets in open living area kitchen?
Anyone with professional knowledge about electrical switches and sockets in open living area kitchen?
OP posts:
Namechangeinto2017 · 11/02/2017 15:45

Perfectly fine to the regulations obviously not ideal in terms of access.

You shouldn't be able to reach the socket from the sink so the advised distance is >1m which is why all the sockets are located on that one end wall.

I don't really see what your landlord could do sorry.

Namechangeinto2017 · 11/02/2017 15:49

Also if it's new build it would have been inspected and signed off in accordance with Part P of tge building regs before you moved in.

Villagernumber9 · 11/02/2017 20:44

Whilst there is no direct regulation, an IEE publication called Electricians Guide to the Building Regulations, a distance of 300mm between the hob edge and socket outlet. Also, 300mm between the sink drainer and socket outlet.
Hope this helps.

New posts on this thread. Refresh page