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  1. R

    Buzzing from kitchen lights

    Please can you help? I have 2 lighting circuits installed in the ceiling in the kitchen - newly installed. Both on separate circuits with independent switches It is 8 recessed LED fittings For each One set is silent when on The other set has a pronounced buzzing sound when turned on. This...
  2. Z

    Advice needed on running a 2.5mm cable in kitchen.

    Hi guys, I just needed some advice on running a 2.5mm cable. As I'm still a trainee doing my college course, I thought I'd ask the experienced guys on how I can do this. I have made the video on youtube to explain exactly where the cable needs running. Here is the link. Any advice is...
  3. J

    Melting wires on kitchen lights

    hi there Looking for advice. I have string lights in my kitchen and twice now, where the wires connect to the transformer they melt! I have the transformer connected to the mains which comes from the wall switch. Any idea why the wires are melting?
  4. R

    Kitchen 3 gang isolator grid

    Hi guys. I've had my kitchen 're fitted and in doing so 're wired. The hob and cooker both off of 32 ampseperate breakers in 6mm cable. The rest is on a socket loop 2.5 mm cable in to a 32 amp breaker. But linked into the loop is a 3 gang isolator grid for cooker hood fridge and washing...
  5. C

    Adding socket on to kitchen ring-no rcd

    Hi all, I was asked today to add 2 extra sockets on to an existing kitchen ring, however the board is an old wylex with the push in MCBs so no rcd protection. To add the extra sockets would it require A board change/rcd isolater? Thanks
  6. T

    Kitchen appliances - grid or switched sockets

    Currently pricing up new electrics for a new kitchen. I am not a spark nor do I intend on doing the work - I am simply saving some time and money by speccing exactly what I want prior to getting quotes. I have the following appliances on dedicated circuits: Fridge freezer (fed from B20 MCB on...
  7. D

    Kitchen Lighting Changes

    I’m a retired Electrical Engineer (was MIEE when I worked) and worked on electrical systems in nuclear power stations so I consider myself competent to perform electrical work. However, I have never been registered to perform work on domestic electrical installations. A friend asked me if I...
  8. P

    Led strip light off, kitchen cabinets

    hi there, If anyone could help. We have blue led strip lighting under and over our kitchen cabinets, after a few days of moving in some of the lighting went off. I’ve looked under the cabinet and found the attached photo. 1) I it wired properly? 2) how comes the yellow and green wire is...
  9. C

    Kitchen - full rewire

    Greetings everyone We are rewiring a house and have reached the kitchen. We have run a 2.5mm cable from consumer unit which will connect as ring for over worktop sockets, and in the same ring we plan to run spurs (switched and fused) for: 1. washing machine 2. dishwasher 3. boiler 4. gas hob...
  10. Andy-1960

    Freelance kitchen fitter doing electrical work.

    Popped in my Sisters house earlier today to see how she was getting on having a new kitchen fitted. First impressions were quite good, install of units so far seemed good, new floor was good, my sister then pointed out the new sockets that he had installed. Sockets were loose ready for him to...
  11. C

    Kitchen light powered from wrong circuit??

    Hi all, I am hoping you can provide me with some insight. I've just bought a new light fitting, and before fitting I attempted to turn the downstairs lights off at the CU. It killed all lights bar the kitchen light (the one I was planning to change ). However, to stop power to the the kitchen...
  12. T

    LED under kitchen worktop

    We do work for a beposke kitchen company who more and more of time are having granit worktops with grove taken out underneath for LED tape We are currently using IP rated tape but proves difficult sometime to string away the plastic cover to solid on joints to round the corners I’m...
    • Tom Christopher
    • Thread
    • kitchen led under worktop
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: UK Electrical Forum
  13. I

    Require additional cooker spur in kitchen

    Hello, My electrician is currently wiring a new kitchen and has wired in a cooker switch to a cooker fused spur shown in the attached photo for the electric cooker oven. He has used 6mm flex wiring for the circuit. The cooker hob is gas. He has installed a B32 for the circuit back at the...
  14. Kitty0307

    Electrician Jobs Kitchen rewire and new main board

    Hi, We have recently purchased an 1800s 3 bed terraced house and have been told we need the electrics looked at. The main board has not been changed since the 1960s and we wanted to find a competent electrician who can get this done for us over the next few weeks. We're in the Scottish...
  15. E

    Is a non-fused switched socket spur allowed in Kitchen?

    Can someone please confirm if a single spur off a ring main is allowed in a kitchen? My plumber has said you cannot have spurs in the kitchen, must all be ring main? Use: To create an extra socket under the kitchen cabinets, 6" off ground, will be used for single ELV DC Alexa PSU as limited...
  16. C

    Replacing a kitchen wall fan

    Hi all, I'm a newbie to the forum and I'm replacing a wall mounted extractor fan in the kitchen. The existing fan wasn't working when we bought the house, but it is wired on twin and earth cable and is switched off and on by an isolation switch (no pull cord). I assume that it didn't have a...
  17. M

    Kitchen Wiring Advice

    Advice please on new electric oven and gas hob wiring for a new kitchen. It will be an integrated type oven with gas hob inset into the work top The oven is a single electric fan oven approx 14metres from the distribution board What size cable should I use for the oven supply ? The gas...
  18. D

    simple kitchen Light fitting

    I’ve changed an upstairs light before with success, now I’m changing the 2 kitchen lights, currently the living room light or kitchen light won’t come on now, everything else ok. I changed how was before. 1st pic is the old fixture. 2 black wires to blue/neutral, should be ok Green yellow to...
  19. T

    Fault on kitchen ring

    Hi all. Had a phone call about a tripping RCD. The customer had narrowed it down to the kitchen ring. When I go there,it was indeed the kitchen ring causing the tripping. Firstly checked the usual,nothing plugged in to any of the sockets. Checked the connections at the sockets,these were all...
  20. R

    Pricing Kitchen rewire and consumer unit upgrade with bonding and Cert

    Good evening people. I'm about to price up a kitchen we wire for a friend I've done work for mates before and know how it goes. Anyway, was hoping to get some guidance as I'm an improved and steadily taking on larger jobs myself. Job: Kitchen rewire. 3 sockets 3 single sockets chased in 4...
    • Redkipper
    • Thread
    • bonding cert consumer consumer unit kitchen pricing rewire unit upgrade
    • Replies: 28
    • Forum: The Welcome Forum

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