Recently I had to replace a washing machine. As always nowadays, it came with a moulded plug. As the electrical socket is above the worktop, I had to cut this plug off, feed the cable through the (existing) hole in the worktop, and put on a new plug (non-moulded, obviously).
I can't help feeling this would be disapproved of by TPTB, but what else could I possibly do? What is the point of moulded plugs when one usually has to cut them off and replace them?
To stop people wiring them up wrongly. I have just fitted 4 LED security lamps and needed to feed 2 core through a brick wall - I have 20 odd old wire up plugs though so had plenty to hand.
I met exactly that in our Village Hall with a new fridge. I acquires one of cable outlets, often seen on computer desks, and fitted that in the work top. The plug fed through that straight to the socket.
At home the washing machine is fed from a fused spur under the worktop. To close to running water for a socket.
One doesn't usually have to.
Relatively easy to install a socket below the worktop, and a switch above it.
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Most well-designed kitchens put a socket under the counter for that purpose. Sometimes they're inside an adjacent cupboard.
Absolutely fine if you've fitted the new plug correctly. But do you end up doing this with everything that comes with a fitted plug?
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Is that really so difficult? Uneducated people, some even Brexit-voters, have been doing it for decades without too many problems.
Only if the appliance is below the worktop (or shelving) and the socket is above it.
My wife wouldn't like me cutting huge plug-shaped holes in her worktops. Nor would I.
Do it the other way round ie remove the back of washing machine, disconnect the cable from inside, put the cable through the hole, reconnect inside the machine and replace the back.
Alan
I think for non earthed equipment the Sony idea is quite good. They mould on a two pin plug a bit like a shaver plug and quite thin, they then clamp this inside an obviously custom made 13 amp fused plug top so the wire comes out of the right place when its screwed down. All one hads to do then is undo it, push the flat plug down behind the shelf and then refit the 13 amp adaptor thingy. Sadly Earthed devices cannot be made this way as american earthed plugs seem to be round and sstill too big to go through the gap. Brian
Hmm, new persona posting bollocks. Not hard to see a pattern here. See sig.
Tim
But you then cover them with a purpose made cover.
Just as well items are now supplied with a fitted plug. Can you imagine the "Facebook Generation" trying to use wire strippers and screwdrivers.
In the days when plugs were brown, it was nice to buy a nice new MK White plug (extra cost) to fit on a new appliance.
DerbyBorn formulated the question :
Just a matter of what looks modern and fashionable. Black seems the fashionable colour at the moment.
Videos, stereos etc. were silver, then black, now silver seems to be coming back as the 'in' colour.
Then pulling the machine out for servicing takes longer. Best solution is a socket in the appropriate place, second best a short extension lead, just to get a socket below via a hole in the worktop.
That if one wants to replace them, one needs to cut them off, rather than just yanking on the cord..
Think you'll find there are plenty around who've never fitted a plug in their life. All equipment sold for many a year comes with one fitted. But yes, I see what you mean with Boris.
The obvious way is to have the socket underneath. With an accessible switch if you must.
A washing machine when it heats the water is likely to take rather more current than those plugs can handle.
So my 1980's Sharp HiFi is coming back into fashion? ;-)
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