Integrated appliances - remote switch above worktop, or socket in adjacent cabinet

[jase31]

How do others connect integrated appliances. By a FCU above the worktop controlling a remote socket below, a bank of FCU, or 13a socket in adjacent cupboard to allow appliance to be plugged in?

OSG states that Kitchen Appliances built into kitchen furniture (intergrated appliances) should be connected to a socket outlet or switch fused connection unit that is accessible when the appliance is in place and in normal use. Alternatevely, where an appliance is supplied from a socket outlet or a connection unit, these should be controlled by an accessable double-pole switch or switched fused connection unit........

How do others achieve this?

 

[sparky692]

Re: Integrated appliances - remote switch above worktop, or socket in adjacent cabine

What about putting the socket in a cupboard that's next to the appliance. Easy to get to , to isolate and it frees up the worktop.

 

[DaveyD]

Re: Integrated appliances - remote switch above worktop, or socket in adjacent cabine

Yep well the art of good design here would be to try and spread the points/loads as evenly as you can around the ring...so for instance:...you have both legs running behind a bank of base units with a long worktop with 2 x 2gang socket fronts above...so you break into leg no1 for the 1st point and then break into no2 leg for the 2nd point and so on to ballance and spread the loads as evenly as you can remembering the 2KW max rule of course......the amount of times we`v been on a kitchen ripout and we`v seen all the points on 1 short leg......

I think that may be his point on the grid switching. I use them too but the poster suggesting a 4 way having the small oven and other large loads at one point if used on RFC would not be the best design IMO.
Regards, David

 

[DaveyD]

Re: Integrated appliances - remote switch above worktop, or socket in adjacent cabine

How do others connect integrated appliances. By a FCU above the worktop controlling a remote socket below, a bank of FCU, or 13a socket in adjacent cupboard to allow appliance to be plugged in?

OSG states that Kitchen Appliances built into kitchen furniture (intergrated appliances) should be connected to a socket outlet or switch fused connection unit that is accessible when the appliance is in place and in normal use. Alternatevely, where an appliance is supplied from a socket outlet or a connection unit, these should be controlled by an accessable double-pole switch or switched fused connection unit........

How do others achieve this?

I isolate above worktop. If plug top I use an unswitched socket fed from 2.5 TE and a 20a DP switch - no point having two fuses.