Kitchen sockets

[newshound]

Not sure that this would be ideal in a kitchen, I'd expect muck to collect in the "track" and be difficult to clean. I don't think much of the appearance either.

[meow2222]

Run the cable in a horizontal line with the sockets so you can add more any time in future more easily. Even if you blitz the place with sockets it wont be enough one day.

NT

[stuart noble]

Only God is perfect. It's the deliberate mistake you incorporated to avoid imitating the deity.

[JimK]

/Good idea.

I'd have mine nearer the toilet though :-)

Owain/q

I expect he's a sitter ;-)

Jim K

[JimK]

/Run the cable in a horizontal line with the sockets so you can add more any time in future more easily./q

Remembering to leave enough slack to actually make it practical?

Jim K

[sm_jamieson]

Very true. I've found drawing out never quite works in practice, so I tiled the bottom few rows above the worktop ("subway" tiles in a stretcher bond layout) and then mounted the back boxes so I could line them up precisely w ith the tiles. This is the sort of thing DIYers can do. When you have separ ate trades and "fixes" it's not so easy - you can't really go sparky, tiler , bring sparky back - who damages tiles, bring tiler back, etc ! Simon.

[Tim Watts]

No - run conduit between them - then you can simply rethread to the adjacent 2 sockets if you need to break in.

[JimK]

/No - run conduit between them - then you can simply rethread to the adjacent 2 sockets if you need to break in. /q

Now that makes a lot more sense.

Jim K

[Tim Watts]

I'm still amazed why conduit - at least 20mm oval - isn't used as standard.

Does it take any more time to fix than capping?

[Dave Plowman (News)]

Snag is unless a very short run can be near impossible to add extra cables. Different matter if using proper conduit and proper conduit cable

- ie singles.

Who uses that anyway?

[Adrian]

When we did our old kitchen, we used sockets and lights that fitted at

45deg in the corner between the wall and wall-mount eye-level cupboards. Nice neat walls, piss-easy to wire, and dead easy to use.

but others will be available.

I'd most certainly use them again.

[meow2222]

Must be messy in use though, leads trailing down from the upper cupboards.

NT

[meow2222]

no need. Unless you're incapable of using connector blocks.

NT

[Tim Watts]

Everyone who wants their cables to be unsliced when the plasterer's been and gone...

[Adrian]

Not at all. They're just a little higher than wall sockets would be. Down- and-across to the kettle/toaster/etc, instead of just across.

[JimK]

/no need. Unless you're incapable of using connector blocks./q

Fingers crossed the back boxes are deep enough....

Jim K

[Tim Watts]

If not:

[meow2222]

if not, solder. Its not difficult

NT

[sm_jamieson]

I thought it must but a strain on the cables due to the angle and gravity. Simon.

[spuorgelgoog]

Even easier if you run maxi-trunking flush in the wall and tile over it. Then you only have to cut the tile and open up an aperture into the trunking rather than having to cut out back boxes in a tiled wall.

Owain