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Is there a legal distance that cookers and sinks have to be?
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when I worked in the Electricity Supply Industry, there used to be a regulation about not being able to put your hand in a sink full of water and be able to touch a switch/socket or the cooker at the same time.....but I think that was because in those days a lot of homes had the older system of earthing via the mains water pipes (you may have seen in older houses the big yellow and green cable clamped to the water pipes etc) but nowadays most homes have RCDs (residual current devices, RCDs to you and me) so that problem of earthing is now gone...having said that, it would be nice if a spark up to date with current regulations could confirm this...wonder is this what the OP was getting at as opposed to the nice look of the layout....lol...I'm now a retired teacher... hooray ...:j
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Looks like that kitchen was fitted because the fitter didn't want to pay to move the gas pipe as the hob appears to be gas.
My own freestanding cooker is in a stupid place because the previous owners didn't want to pay to extend the gas pipe. If I had any children I would be in trouble as they could knock over any pans on one side of the hob by just walking through the kitchen door.
Pasturesnew you will find most kitchens do actually have a triangle. Go into a few friends' or family members kitchens and see how the fridge, hob and sink are in a triangle. I did this and was surprised.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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Switches and sockets need to be at least 300mm away from the sink in a horizontal direction
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I think it's actually the tap not the sink.Doozergirl wrote: »Switches and sockets need to be at least 300mm away from the sink in a horizontal direction
Work triangle IIRC was "formalised" into design in the Parker-Morris report of 1964? Sadly, I think I have a copy of it !A house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
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BobProperty wrote: »I think it's actually the tap not the sink.
Work triangle IIRC was "formalised" into design in the Parker-Morris report of 1964? Sadly, I think I have a copy of it !
I wondered when you'd be along to tell me to shutup.
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If it's the sink I'm in trouble (I think). :eek:Doozergirl wrote: »I wondered when you'd be along to tell me to shutup.
You've just noticed we're both online and I hadn't commented isn't it?
and I've never tell you to shut up, not after your successful local radio appearance.....(that radio station was a bit "Early Alan Partridge" though?)A house isn't a home without a cat.
Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others.
I have writer's block - I can't begin to tell you about it.
You told me again you preferred handsome men but for me you would make an exception.
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Places are so small now, you could have your hand in a sink of water and be polishing the windows at the far end of the house in the living space end....when I worked in the Electricity Supply Industry, there used to be a regulation about not being able to put your hand in a sink full of water and be able to touch a switch/socket or the cooker at the same time0 -
I know they are. And I find it annoying. Always having to move all over the place for things.Pasturesnew you will find most kitchens do actually have a triangle. Go into a few friends' or family members kitchens and see how the fridge, hob and sink are in a triangle. I did this and was surprised.
My current kitchen has it:
Fridge on the left, have to leave the kitchen area to open it and get stuff out
Sink at the far end - well that's the entire width
Cooker on the right.
I'd like to have the fridge right by the worksurface where I'm working. So all in a row would do me.
Say, sink, worktop with fridge under, hob. all in one place. No running about. Especially handy in kitchens where there are 2 doors (it's a walkway) as people passing through aren't in your way either.
And I hate "corners"... it is creepy dead space in the corner that most people have either blocked off or it's a manky deep cupboard with stuff you can't get to.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »
My current kitchen has it:
Fridge on the left, have to leave the kitchen area to open it and get stuff out
Not exactly a triangle more like a nuisance.
Haven't lived in a place where the fridge was not in the kitchen for years.
You can have pull out units if you have a corner cupboards meaning you don't end up with dead space but they cost more. So most people don't have them.PasturesNew wrote: »And I hate "corners"... it is creepy dead space in the corner that most people have either blocked off or it's a manky deep cupboard with stuff you can't get to.I'm not cynical I'm realistic
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Doozergirl wrote: »Switches and sockets need to be at least 300mm away from the sink in a horizontal direction
Doozergirl can you show me the particular regs requiring a minimum distance between sink and socket? I am not too sure that there are any TBH!!!0
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