Utility Room Sockets

[Piratepete]

Hi Guys
Client wants 3 wall mounted under-the-unit sockets for washing m/c, dishwasher and tumble drier. There is a lightly used ring cct available above the units. He doesn't want 3 isolation switches above the units due to having a stainless steel splash back and there's no access below.

Is it acceptable to put one 32 amp isolation switch in the ring and feed a radial from the switch to the 3 sockets via 4 sqmm T&E?

It's not a solution shown on the pretty diagram at the back of the Regs, but I don't see why not?

Cheers

Pete

 

[Wilko]

For the area under the bath to be outside zone 1 it must be "only accessible with a tool" (701.32.3). So this means if I don't have to use a tool to get to something, then perhaps it's accessible. Clearly a gorilla could get access to pretty much whatever it wanted

 

[westward10]

I wouldn't say a socket behind a washing machine, assuming it is not built in is inaccessible.

 

[Octopus]

Another glaring omission from the regs.

Having to move a white goods item weighing about 35 kg is not accessible, moving some cans of beans is imho

 

[westward10]

Tis certainly grey, the definition of accessible is very open.

 

[HandySparks]

Another glaring omission from the regs.

Having to move a white goods item weighing about 35 kg is not accessible, moving some cans of beans is imho

But if you're a good boy and eat all your beans, you'll grow big and strong and be able to move the washing machine.

 

[kingeri]

I remember my dad ripping our washing machine out and throwing it through the back door when I was a kid. It was on fire at the time. I wonder if he managed to isolate it first. I just remember being in awe of his seemingly super human strength!

 

[Midwest]

My Mum used to do that every Saturday, when she did the weekly wash (cutting edge technology then, tin bath before). She'd manhandle the thing from the shed into the kitchen. The thing was louder than Concorde taking off.

 

[Rpa07]

Ah the 'Toploader' - preferred the noise the band made than those clacking away. My mum used a pair of wooden tongs, metal sprung end that were so old that the wood was like velvet in texture (they saw some action) - a phenomenon as a child.

 

[westward10]

Ah the 'Toploader' - preferred the noise the band made than those clacking away. My mum used a pair of wooden tongs, metal sprung end that were so old that the wood was like velvet in texture (they saw some action) - a phenomenon as a child.

That has taken me back, my ma had tongs just the same they were always slippery and sleek on the wood.

 

[Midwest]

Yep and there was a little plastic perforated lid, to cover the wet clothes as they were spun dried, with the metal lid closed.

As it's Xmas, I can also remember my Mum using metal quadruple stove steamers, to cook the veg & Xmas pudding.

 

[westward10]

Yep and there was a little plastic perforated lid, to cover the wet clothes as they were spun dried, with the metal lid closed.

As it's Xmas, I can also remember my Mum using metal quadruple stove steamers, to cook the veg & Xmas pudding.

My mum's was a perforated rubber disc, those were the days.

 

[Rpa07]

I use triple steamers, sometimes leave one empty which totally confuses me - doesn't take much!

 

[Rpa07]

That has taken me back, my ma had tongs just the same they were always slippery and sleek on the wood.

That's the ones - kind of entrancing as a child - she would use the same ones for boiling my dads snotty hankies so I wasn't always enamoured with them!

 

[Midwest]

My mum's was a perforated rubber disc, those were the days.

I stand corrected, twas rubber. Bit early for pvc

 

[Midwest]

My mum used a pair of wooden tongs, metal sprung end that were so old that the wood was like velvet in texture (they saw some action) - a phenomenon as a child.

Seem to remember getting hit with them.

 

[Rpa07]

That's them - never got hit though - that's where the green garden cane came into it, an arms length plus 3 feet of cane she was still swift on her feet. I do love her, in her 89th year now we laugh about it!