I have the option of an unswitched socket or a fused spur and flex. I like fused spurs but the boiler does not (via instructions) route the power through the back. So it really is a plug solution. Why Vaillant do that? If I do go fused spur I guess it is a face plate with flex hole or can I just neatly put a semi circle and sleeved grommet in the side of the spur face plate? I imagine I'll end up with a socket!
-- Mike W
You can buy fused spurs with a flex knock-out in the bottom edge of the face plate.
You need a flex outlet faceplate as this will have the proper clamp for the flex. You can get flex outlet spurs with a pokey-outey or a flush-down-the-wall flex outlet hole.
Owain
Thanks, hardly elegant though eh? I think I'll plaster over the flex and reroute it through the back or to the suggested position underneath, but exit plaster adjacent to base. It's not like I might want to plug it in somewhere else!
-- Mike W
May depend on connections at boiler end, but you don't have to use flex.
It can be useful sometimes to be able to plug it in to an inverter/UPS/generator.
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