Kitchen appliance isolator

Richard Savage · 2004-10-10T08:54:19+00:00

My mythical kitchen is slowly creeping towards installation - I bought the hob last week!Now planning the wiring and am mindful of the need to be able to isolate the power to washing machine, dishwasher, hob ignition and extractor hood. I _really_ do not want to fit fused spur isolators above the worksurface so I was going to fit all three (running hob and extractor from the same isolator) in the space under the sink. However, this is going to make for quite lengthy, parallel, cable runs and I was wondering if I could incorporate a single isolator for the whole of the ring on the appliance side of the kitchen.Is it possible? And could it be done discretely - I don't want something that looks as though it could have designed for use by the CEGB.Alternatively (and probably simpler) would a cooker isolator (switch only), spurred off a socket on the kitchen ring, feeding the four under surface sockets for the appliances be acceptable? And could I wire those sockets in series with a suitable weight of T+E? I'm thinking that the sequence would be:====SKT====Ring======= | Switch ------ W/M --------- D/W----------Hob--------ExtractorTIARichard

Oct 10, 2004 60 Replies

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Peter 21 years ago

Correct except that in the case of fixed appliances would no longer be earthed the regulation states that "the switch and fuse (not rated above

13a) or circuit breaker (not rated above 15 a) must be fixed adjacent to or onto, the fixed stationary appliance"

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