Floor socket on kitchen work top?

[HappyHippyDad]

Amongst other things I have been asked to fit a matching floor socket on a kitchen work top. The work top already has a floor socket well away from the sink and now the customer wants one approx 600mm away from the sink.

Luckily there is another option of installing a wall mounted socket 400mm from sink which I have advised the customer to go for.

I have to admit the only regulation I could think of was the 300mm (which it would pass), but I just couldn't get my head around installing a floor socket on a kitchen work top (600mm from sink) due to the likelihood of water penetrating it! It's not a problem now as they are happy with the nearby wall socket but I just wondered what you guys thought and if you had come across this before?

 

[ImpededLoop]

I've installed some odd things, but never a floor socket in a work top!

I think your solution was the best way forward.

 

[bigdavs83]

The 300mm thing is just a guidance too there is no actual regulation for this and its 300mm horizontally from the plug hole. The whole floor socket thing is a bit random mind you. I've fitted the push down ones where it comes out the worktop like a tower. They're actually pretty handy.

 

[Engineer54]

The 300mm thing is just a guidance too there is no actual regulation for this and its 300mm horizontally from the plug hole. The whole floor socket thing is a bit random mind you. I've fitted the push down ones where it comes out the worktop like a tower. They're actually pretty handy.

No, ...they are actually a crap idea, and don't last too long either!!! What's more, they are basically a glorified extension lead that are susceptible to any liquids spilt on the work top!!

 

[bigdavs83]

Hmmmm not so keen on them then Eng54

 

[Engineer54]

Hmmmm not so keen on them then Eng54

No not really ...lol !!

Used them on a project in Saudi, thankfully in only a small block of studio/bedsit type staff accommodation, where the kitchenette layout got changed at the last moment, leaving worktop with no means of local power. I thought at the time these things would be a solution, they weren't!! Eventually they all had to be removed and the worktops replaced. Ended up using angle PVC dado trunking incorporating 2 or 3 double sockets hardwire supplied from the only socket outlet available located behind cabinets at low level.

Those pop-up things when they are either up or down will let water and other liquids past into the cabinet. Once you have made that bloody big hole to accommodate these things in the expensive worktop, you are then stuck with it!! lol!!

 

[driverman]

No, ...they are actually a crap idea, and don't last too long either!!! What's more, they are basically a glorified extension lead that are susceptible to any liquids spilt on the work top!!

I see that they are now on the market with USB outlets on them now. I've never installed them or even seen them in properties. but my thinking is, crap will form round them and like you say liquid etc which will discolor the worktop round the hole.

 

[Engineer54]

I see that they are now on the market with USB outlets on them now. I've never installed them or even seen them in properties. but my thinking is, crap will form round them and like you say liquid etc which will discolor the worktop round the hole.

I suppose they have their uses, but not on a kitchen worktop or anywhere else water or liquids are involved. And it's well to remember, that at the end of the day they are only glorified extension leads supplied by a plug top, so not particularly suitable for heavy loads etc....

 

[DPG]

I don't see what's wrong with a standard wall socket just above the worktop. Saves butchering the worktop and doesn't take up any space. I don't get the socket-in-a worktop idea at all. Gadgets for gadgets sake the pop up things. Daz

 

[Guest77]

if it has to go on the worktop then use a bench top socket, it is triangle shaped and screwed to the base and indeed can also be screwed to the wall.

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[DPG]

That's ok if you want your kitchen to look like a science lab yes. Daz

 

[Guest77]

That's ok if you want your kitchen to look like a science lab yes. Daz

LOL, I wouldn't use one, but just giving another option haha, science lab, very good chuckle.