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Installing under kitchen unit lighting advice please

ferry
ferry Posts: 2,016 Forumite
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Looking at this project in the New Year but wanted to guage the help now,please as I have an L-shapes kitchen unit setup
I assume they all have to link together to plug in.

I would like to instal 5 lights in total but my layout may prove a bit tricky for this as 3 cabinets run along one wall,then there is the hob/oven area,one more cabinet along that wall then there is a single unit on another wall after the sink in a kind of L-shape.
It would be a basic setup-just out of the box set like lights/wires transformer and wall plug but i'm assuming that my big issue is running a wire from the last unit across the sink? (there is no power socket under this last unit)

Any advice appreciated as usual
:j

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  • ferry wrote: »
    Any advice appreciated as usual

    Don't run an electrical wire across the sink.
  • phill99
    phill99 Posts: 9,093 Forumite
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    They don't all have to run off of the same switch. It's not uncommon to have 2 or 3 areas controlled independently. It's really only when you have major works that you can have them all run together as the cables will need to buried in the wall etc.
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