Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets

Jun 09, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 62 Replies
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Even worse is a neutral-earth fault. It may not operate the trip at first if the voltage between neutral and earth is very low at the time. Later, when the local load increases, the trip operates for no obvious reason.

This has a habit of happening at the most inconvenient times, such as just before Sunday lunch when everyone puts their cookers on, or during the night when storage heaters switch in. Because all the neutrals are solidly connected to a bus bar in the consumer unit, isolating the cause of the fault can be a tedious job

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From the back of the box you can drill into the cavity, or carve out a trench in the surface of the inner wall deep enough to run the cable to the next box if the location is close. Plaster over the trench (and cable) when finished. I assume that is still allowed, it was many years ago that I did that.

In the house I had in England the inner wall was made of breeze block (cinder block) that was soft enough to gouge with a finger nail. Making a channel in it was very easy with a masonry chisel. It is more difficult if you have to do it in brick, stone or concrete.

Some houses use pre-cast concrete lintels over windows and doors. The concrete is those can be extremely tough and very difficult to drill into or chisel out.

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On solid walls you use a wall plug if a reglar picture hook (that nails into the plaster, brick, or concrete surface) is not sufficient.

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