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spurs for fridge and cooker in kitchen law

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  • 16-02-2018 12:45pm
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    tempuser123
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    Hi I am thinking of getting my kitchen updated and was told that the new oven and integrated fridge in new locations will require spurs and not just sockets. Can anyone please let me know if this is required by law. Thanks


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    meercat
    Registered Users Posts: 4,745 ✭✭✭meercat


    tempuser123 wrote: »
    Hi I am thinking of getting my kitchen updated and was told that the new oven and integrated fridge in new locations will require spurs and not just sockets. Can anyone please let me know if this is required by law. Thanks

    All inaccessible sockets need isolator switches
    This includes all integrated appliances and cooker hood


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    Tuco88
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    The isolator is ment to be within 3m also if i remember correctly?


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    meercat
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    Tuco88 wrote: »
    The isolator is ment to be within 3m also if i remember correctly?

    Close
    2mts

    555.1.2
    The device shall be installed within 2m at a height of between 400mm and 600mm above floor level


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    red sean
    Registered Users Posts: 2,917 ✭✭✭red sean


    meercat wrote: »
    Close
    2mts

    555.1.2
    The device shall be installed within 2m at a height of between 400mm and 600mm above floor level

    Can you not have the isolator above the worktop, seeing as thats more than 600mm above fl?


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    meercat
    Registered Users Posts: 4,745 ✭✭✭meercat


    red sean wrote: »
    Can you not have the isolator above the worktop, seeing as thats more than 600mm above fl?

    Sorry I quoted wrong reg
    530.6
    Wall mount switches and control devices shall be mounted at a height as follows
    Switches for permanently connected appliances between 400mm and 1200mm above floor level


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    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    If the appliances are close together, something like this could probably work, you might just have to put them in the press below to conform to the 1.2m rule.


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    Bonzo Delaney
    Registered Users Posts: 1,577 ✭✭✭Bonzo Delaney


    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    If the appliances are close together, something like this could probably work, you might just have to put them in the press below to conform to the 1.2m rule.

    That's a smart idea .
    I might just have to rob that one from you 🖒🖒🖒


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    2011
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    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    If the appliances are close together, something like this could probably work, you might just have to put them in the press below to conform to the 1.2m rule.

    +1
    In some cases it would also be possible to combine a number of switches into one unit using grid switches.


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    meercat
    Registered Users Posts: 4,745 ✭✭✭meercat


    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    If the appliances are close together, something like this could probably work, you might just have to put them in the press below to conform to the 1.2m rule.

    Think I might rob that idea too.you should have patented it..........


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    DublinDilbert
    Registered Users Posts: 5,380 ✭✭✭DublinDilbert


    meercat wrote: »
    Think I might rob that idea too.you should have patented it..........

    I think the idea is good, but i don't think above the oven is great as the wires would need to run up the back and over. Nothing wrong with below. Also if you needed to add an additional isolator later on there shouldn't be an issue.


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    EHP
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    DublinDilbert wrote:
    If the appliances are close together, something like this could probably work, you might just have to put them in the press below to conform to the 1.2m rule.


    Would above the oven be over 1200mm high?


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    Skedaddle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 777 ✭✭✭Skedaddle


    In my view, with built in appliances you shouldn't put a UK type plugs out of accessibility. I've had two occasions where a dishwasher plug fuse blew due to nothing other than those 13amp plug fuses not being particularly wonderfully regulated pieces of kit.

    To get access to the plug required removing cabinet fronts!

    There's usually some possibility of putting the plug into an adjacent cabinet.

    Also you shouldn't really be installing water connected appliances without easy access to an isolating valve. Nothing worse than a failed solioid valve and water filling the kitchen!


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    tweek84
    Registered Users Posts: 341 ✭✭tweek84


    DublinDilbert wrote: »
    If the appliances are close together, something like this could probably work, you might just have to put them in the press below to conform to the 1.2m rule.

    I would not be able to use that cupboard everytime i would open i would get empty reaching lol
    As one of the other posters stated the cabling around the oven i would not be a fan of.
    Double pole switches are required for isolation can they be gotten in for grid switches?

    Luckily i re wired my kitchen prior to this rule, it would not work for me the missus has a bad habit of turning off every switch or unplugging everything at night or when we leave the house (yes dishwashers and washing machines mid cycle), our fridge freezer plug used to accessible but after it being defrosted a couple of times i had to put a socket behind the fridge that she couldn't get too.....i bet she tried to get back there to unplug it :D:D:D


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