Socket above sink, tiny room, nowhere else to put it.

[electricshock]

I could put the socket 300mm above the sink and still have the kettle on the sink. Would that become legal but obviously still not safe.

 

[electricshock]

Customer refuses to have socket blanked above sink.

 

[RISElectrical]

Then customer gets unsatisfactory EICR.... simples.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

Is it a cordless kettle?

If it is, small shelf about 400mm high clip kettle cord for base or screw base to shelf so cannot be moved and use a masterseal plug, job done. No one get hurt unless they intentionally removed the cable clips or base from shelf and puts in water.

 

[Mark_Burgess]

Is the plug above the drainer or the bowl?

How high is it from the sink?

Its and EICR so code 2 it, but advise what I put above.

 

[telectrix]

but don'r drill through the socket cable when fixing the shelf up.:73:

 

[Adam W]

I think trying to come up with ingenious ways to make the existing situation 'legal' is the wrong way of going about it.

So this is a factory? How many people work there and are therefore likely to be using this "kitchen"?
Secondly where do the staff go to consume what they have produced in this "kitchen"? Do they all try to cram into what it sounds like was intended as a cleaners' cupboard during their breaks?
Is this more of a 'sweat shop' than a factory, in which case why are they even taking breaks?

Without seeing the place I am going to guess that they have some kind of 'canteen' or 'break room' where everyone sits at break time, probably with a microwave in it, in which case I would suggest putting the kettle there. Maybe even the sink as well, and go back to using the old "kitchen" as a cleaners' cupboard, but the socket behind the sink still has to go.

 

[electricshock]

i hav replaced the socket with rcd socket and just mentiond it on the cert.