Switches for kitchen appliances

[grumbas]

Just looking at buying all the sockets/switches for my kitchen.

Do the appliances need to be on a 13A switched & fused spur, or is a 20A DP switch sufficient?

They're all on 13A plugs into unswitched sockets behind the appliance, these are just the isolators at worktop height.

[Trevelyan]

A DP switch will be fine. I'd only use a fused spur if the appliance cable was hard wired into the circuit (so there was no fused plug).

Edited by Trevelyan on Monday 13th September 21:40

[Plotloss]

Few places we've worked on use the MK Grid system for all kitchen appliances mounted in a cupboard back.

Neat and keeps the walls clear.

[grumbas]

Thanks, the DP switches seem quite a bit cheaper!

In hindsight wish I'd gone for the grid system, I tried to re-use as much of the original cabling as possible, now it looks like it would have been worth the extra effort.