Hi all,
I've just moved house and am in the process of getting my kitchen ready for new units and appliances fitted (it's empty at the moment) and about the only thing I have left to work out is how to wire in the cooker hood! I'm struggling a bit with this one so I have for some advice...
I've just had a good look through the past posts on here and there seems to be lots of good tips, from what I can gather I'm best wiring it into a switched and fused spur off the ring main?
I also gather that having it extracting to the outside is much better than having it re-circulating? The hood I've chosen does both, but it is being mounted on an exterior wall so I could have it extracting. There's no hole in the wall presently though, is it a huge job to make that? I'm not sure what diameter we're talking about! I think the wall is made of breeze block as it's an extension.
What I need to work out is where I can place the actual socket to plug the unit into. It'll be mounted on a tiled wall and isn't adjacent to any cupboards, so to avoid having a visible socket on the wall near it I was thinking that the socket could go behind the chimney section?
This is the actual hood here:
If it's going to be too damp for a socket is something like this safe (looks better sealed):
Thanks,
Ian.