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Good on you putting a DP isolator in for the outside socket. Such a basic addition to the design but 15 years down the line when the outside socket inevitably lets in some damp and causes an earth fault, it means they don't need a spark out within a few hours to get half the installation back on. If the kitchen's on a 20A radial or they only need a 1G external socket you could have put a fourth switch in the grid to isolate the outside socket rather than using a SFCU (I'm desperately trying to stop myself incorrectly calling them fused spurs!)
Yes we use them all the time in the USA including and especially useful for lighting where they can double up as a fully accessible junction box much stronger as well. I suspect they will become more popular in the UK over time.
The walls with the 4x2 cls will have insulation between studs and the bare brick walls will have insulation board... so the bracers on the side are correct for the back boxes
LOL colleague did the drill thru the wall thing, knocked an entire brick out, he thought it was double skin... socket box ended up in the neighbour's flower bed lol
@@robswingler don’t get me wrong I know it’s completely fine for a boiler. but I’m saying I always use 2.5 incase someone needs to use it for something else, I’ve never had it happen personally but Nick could have done with it in 2.5 here so my reasoning with myself works, and I’ll continue to do it 😃
On a good note, thanks for using a grid switch instead of in your words fused spurs for each appliance. It's so ugly and unnecessary in a brand new kitchen. I have put the supply cables in each corner so it's neater for linking out each grid switch. Odd to see there is no Hob and also very few counter sockets. I also don't understand the need to isolate the external socket
Its not regulations to install an isolator for cooker but I always do for good practice and maintenance. Hope this helps. Remember if in doubt get an electrician.
@@titchmoore6295 My thought was for a single, integrated box (or range of boxes) with the extension piece inside the outer box. Fixing the inner box back plate to the wall/structure and then using the top plate to draw the outer box down to the correct depth would mean the mounting box was always the right depth for the hole.
The Company that just installed a New Kitchen in my Parents rented property they fitted 35mm back boxes but distance between the back of the box to the actual socket faceplate is 80mm it's wild it's a right S#!T SHOW
Is it a English thing nick putting noggins in for metal boxes instead of using fast fix boxes when it’s plasterboarded? Roughing the cables in would be so much faster? Daft Scottish spark 🤷♂️
be careful with the cheap bin companies mate they tell you its 17 quid plus vat but then there is excess weight charges after a certain weight if you have an 1100 bin it will most likely be 70 kg my advice to you mate would be look after your bin men and they will look after you I've been in the game for 8 years and certain customers never get an over weight charge because they look after us bottle of pop every now and then and a cheeky purple one at Christmas will save you a lot in long run mate
Was a meter or 2, unlikely it would have burnt through the outer insulation. If you’ve got 40m of cable to go through a hole you definitely don’t push all of it through
You would be surprised how easy it is to burn through the insulation, depends how tight the hole is to be fair, I always have one hand one side of the joist pushing and the other hand pulling from the other side, also every new cable you pull through put it at the bottom of the hole with other cables above and pull downwards better safe than sorry, the speed he was pulling it would take seconds to burn through a cable.
No way as a sparks would I put an isolation switch in cupboard , it needs to be accessible incase of an emergency, you can run a boiler spur in 1.5mm as long as you fit a 6or 10amp beaker back at CU and I hope you fuse your boilers with a 3 amp fuse at the spur . It usual to run a boiler spur on a 16amp breaker not a 20amp breaker ..
