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Would it not be prudent to swap the dual socket with a junction box, seal it up to waterproof it and move the socket a couple of feet- provided you have the space . Would be a relatively simple job.
Our kitchen has a three double sockets that had to be fitted upside down as the electrician and builder didn’t allow for a return of the worktop against the wall so nothing with a factory fitted plug and a rigid flex out of it could plug in to them - and that was while we were having the kitchen done “properly “
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Nah, whoever installed the kitchen has gone and broken the ring circuit by branching out which has impacted the integrity of the ring.
At this point, the kitchen needs a full rewire to get the 32A ring back... and as the sockets were built behind cabinets (!) and are inaccessible we can't go hunting for the branching to fix it. We need to downrate to 20A.
Velocio
Exciting night in my household.
My kitchen is badly installed, hence my wanting to replace it with a kitchen of much better quality and so forth. Problems with it: Boiler installation means it cannot be fully serviced, water filter inaccessible, kitchen power not isolated, some kitchen sockets were built behind units and are inaccessible, some sockets were placed under a sink!, plumbing is all a misfit jumble of pipes.
So that's the background, what happened?
Appliance grey water pipe attached to the twin sink trap popped out. Because it's the wrong height it's full of water that it proceeds to empty... over sockets that are under the sink... which power the boiler. Sockets go pop! Boiler is out, hot water out, sockets in kitchen out.
Then the house alarm... sheesh, whoever installed this thing has run it off... the kitchen socket circuit. So it starts beeping that the mains has been cut. It considers this an active fault, because I can't get the power back on because socket goes pop! So that's been doing a 100db alarm every hour all night, needing manual resets... so sleep has been fucked and I'm cranky.
What needs to happen today:
I'm tired and haven't begun anything.
Even after I do all of this, the kitchen is still a time bomb of costs if it's not ripped out and rebuilt properly.
And this... is why one shouldn't DIY a kitchen.