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Kitchen Reno Help 1 - sockets

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Eminado · 14/08/2017 12:37

Hello

Total novice here with a less than helpful builder so hoping someone can help me.

Any thoughts or things I should consider when telling him where plug sockets should go?
I will have an island and all the usual kitchen appliances.

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randomsabreuse · 14/08/2017 12:42

Think of a number of sockets and add a few. Put double sockets everywhere possible.

littlewoollypervert · 14/08/2017 12:42

Get more sockets than you think you will need - about 50% more.
If you have an island, can you have one of those push up columns of sockets?
Also - get these where possible - I've retro fitted these to my kitchen myself and they are FAB. No hunting for a plug charger anymore, and keeps your sockets themselves free for appliances.

Eminado · 16/08/2017 13:22

Thanks so much for replies - much appreciated!

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wowfudge · 16/08/2017 16:43

Have lots - we have 12 double sockets in our kitchen and some of them have USB ports too. Range cooker and hood are hard wired in so do check the requirements for your appliances.

PigletJohn · 16/08/2017 17:06

all the way along the worktop, all round the room, have a switched double socket (or a switch to control an appliance below or above) every 600mm in a horizontal row. This is actually easy to install and economical on time, chasing and cables. If your cabinets are 500mm wide, spacing at 500mm might look neater.

Remember that the cooker hood and/or extractor, and working lights, might be above the worktop. Run a cable upwards vertically to a flex outlet or socket, with a (probably 5A) FCU in the row by the worktop. For under-counter appliances, have an unswitched socket vertically below, and a switch in the row. If for some reason you are not having a socket, you will need an FCU with a fuse appropriate to the appliance. Fuses in appliance fused UK plugs blow, on average, approximately never. So it is not tiresome to have them under the counter. Cables can be run vertically or horizontally. Never diagonally.

About 200mm above worktop height, to clear your tiles or upstand, and be out of the way of splashes.

On the island, put them under the worktop so they are visible and easily accessible, but not prone to spills.

PigletJohn · 16/08/2017 17:10

if you have strange tastes, you can put these strange things on top of the island worktop. They are sometimes used in labs and workshops where the bench is not against a wall. It is easier to spill things into them than into a wall socket.

PigletJohn · 16/08/2017 17:11

these strange things

Kitchen Reno Help 1 - sockets
wowfudge · 16/08/2017 18:39

There are even remote control pop up sockets for islands which have a section of worktop set into the top of them. They cost around £280 though.

Aftershock15 · 16/08/2017 18:48

I have S box pop up sockets in the work top which I love.
If your oven has a pyrolytic clean function make sure your electrician understands that it will draw more power than a regular oven, or you will fuses everything when you clean it.

Mehfruittea · 16/08/2017 19:00

I'm planning my kitchen too. I've decided to have a gadgets draw for docking/charging and keeping them out of the way at night when DS should not have them in his room. Just a bunch of plug sockets and USBs mounted inside the top draw in one of the units.

Eminado · 21/08/2017 12:20

Thank you SO SO SO much for the time you have taken to reply! Am so appreciative.

Electrician is here now.

Thank you, thank you and thank you again.

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Buckinghambae · 21/08/2017 12:41

Also consider if you want an induction job, get 30amp sockets for those.

Hot water tap?
Waste disposal Unit?

FrogFairy · 21/08/2017 13:26

Mehfruittea I love the idea of a gadget drawer.

Will the wires leading from the sockets be curly like a phone wire so they expand and contract behind the drawer as you open and close it or will you just be leaving straight wires dangling behind the carcass?

weasle · 21/08/2017 14:12

I love the sockets withUSBs and the gadget drawer idea!

Tika77 · 21/08/2017 17:05

People with the pop-up sockets: aren't they a bit dangerous to have around kids? I know they're very in at the moment but the amount of things that spill in our household, I'd just be worried about using them.

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