kitchen rewire

[Dalf]

Don't do a lot of domestic myself but am rewiring my kitchen.
I don't really want a load of fused spurs above the work tops so looking at what ppl do usually when the same has been required?
Is it just sockets low down at the back of units or grid switching?

Thanks

 

[Badged01]

you have Gas ..... in WALES ????!!!!!

Yeah, but we try not to brag about it. Next year though they are taking the lights down and replacing them with lights that run off this electrikery stuff.

 

[tbs1983]

drill nice little 6mm holes in your lovely new worktop, snip the moulded plugtop off your new washing machine (invalidating the warranty), poke the flex through the worktop hole, fit a new plugtop (50p from home bargains), and plug it in. problem solved !

 

[electrician4u]

By 'qualified' do you mean 'completed a Electrical Trainee domestic installer course'? Correct me if I'm wrong but judging by some of your latest posts I would hazard a guess as to this being your entry in to the trade. I only mention this because it would seem that even though the OP stated that he doesn't really carry out domestic electrical installation work, you have taken this to mean that he is not qualified (I'm guessing because domestic work is all you are used to)?? I however would take this to mean that he is qualified but works mainly in the commercial field.

My personal assumptuion is that the guy is more than competent to do what he is doing in his OWN kitchen and is purely looking for asthetic advice rather than electrical advice, therefore my suggestion is that giving out that asthetic advice based on your 'extensive experience' in the domestic field would be far more helpful than teaching a perfectly competent and more qualified man how to suck eggs.

hmm, where to start, or even whether to bother.i've been in the industry for 30 years.i don't get your problem.while i aim to help with advise, you obviously get your kicks from trawling through posts to find fault.nuff said

 

[electrician4u]

Only if they are new circuits. Seems you need to brush up on Part P too.

i think by saying you're re-wiring your kitchen would indicate a new circuit

 

[electrician4u]

Why does using grid switches for under-worktop socket isolation make no sense? Daz

that's not what the original post said.you'd better re-read

 

[electrician4u]

I wouldn't notify if it was me doing it in my house.

the regs still apply whether it's your house or not

 

[AndrewMgan1976]

i think by saying you're re-wiring your kitchen would indicate a new circuit

Not necessarily, not if you are using existing legs of ring and rerouting from there. MWC required

 

[D Skelton]

while i aim to help with advise, you obviously get your kicks from trawling through posts to find fault.nuff said

How was your post helpul or advisory?! It was finger wagging at best and as I've already alluded to, potentially highly hypocritical.

i've been in the industry for 30 years.

Haven't learned much in thirty years then have ya?!

You still haven't defended the accusation of being a Electrical Trainee either.

Nuff said.

 

[telectrix]

the regs still apply whether it's your house or not

regs. will apply. agreed. but interference from muppets at the local council and scam leeches need not be tolerated. time the industry woke up and said NO to these parasites making us pay to work. an industry recognised qualification should be all that's required.

 

[electrician4u]

How was your post helpul or advisory?! It was finger wagging at best and as I've already alluded to, potentially highly hypocritical.



Haven't learned much in thirty years then have ya?!

You still haven't defended the accusation of being a Electrical Trainee either.

Nuff said.

what's a Electrical Trainee?

 

[D Skelton]

what's a Electrical Trainee?

30 years in the industry my arrssee!

 

[telectrix]

a 10ww with half a brain

 

[electrician4u]

30 years in the industry my arrssee!

This, from a part-time doorman! sounds your credentials are nothing to boast about. and as for finger wagging, how is informing someone of the regs wrong? the original post said is it sockets OR grid switches indicating he didn't know what he was doing

 

[Rockingit]

This, from a part-time doorman! sounds your credentials are nothing to boast about. and as for finger wagging, how is informing someone of the regs wrong? the original post said is it sockets OR grid switches indicating he didn't know what he was doing

Can I make a suggestion that you just back out of this one gracefully? No-one has called the OP's electrical competence into question as he wasn't asking 'electrical' questions. The OP was about suggested methods for best looks, nothing more or less.

 

[D Skelton]

This, from a part-time doorman! sounds your credentials are nothing to boast about.

That was a long time ago fella, anyway, even if I was still doing it, what would my interest in earning a little pocket money on the side doing another job I enjoy have to do with things??? Seems a bit odd to bring this to the discussion in some sort of failed attempt to somehow discredit me???

and as for finger wagging, how is informing someone of the regs wrong?

It's not, but you were misinforming, and that is wrong. Learn your stuff and then comment.