Advice Please On Need For Certificate And Conformity With Regs

[tsrplatelayer]

I have just commissioned a new piece of furniture. It will completely fill the alcove and I want to bring the sockets to the front of the cabinet. I initially intended just to use a commercially available extension, plug it in and mount on the front of the cabinet. With an access hole in the back of the cabinet to access the socket and switch on the wall.

However this would spoil the look of the cabinet. instead I want to fit 3 * twin 13A switched sockets mounted into the cabinet frame in plastic patress boxes. These will only be used for low power devices so overload is not an issue.

So to my questions

1. Connecting the 13A sockets together - 1, 1.5mm or what twin and earth solid core?

2. Connecting the sockets on the front of the unit to the wall - is the use of a plug OK? If so what sort of wire? If not a switched fused spur - but that would be very difficult to access to change the fuse in future - hence the preference for a plug on a flexible wire which, made long enough, could be pulled forward through the cupboard to access the plug to change the fuse.

3. Is certification/testing required on the finished cabinet/wiring?

Obviously this should all be assembled by someone with appropriate quals!

Allan

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

Put it via a plug..

no need for any certificates as such as its not fixed wiring...

nor is it a portable appliance...

however I would still double check polarity and continuity to all sockets once they are wired up..

Guinness

 

[tsrplatelayer]

That's how I saw it as well. But what spec wire do I use?

Allan

 

[ProDave]

since you don't know what will be plugged in to your new sockets, use the largest cable that will fit a 13A plug, namely 3 core 2.5mm flex.

 

[tsrplatelayer]

thanks, that's what I wanted to know

Allan

 

[steptoe]

1.5mm flex on a plug will be more than adequate for the permitted 13amp load.  IMHO

 

[SPECIAL LOCATION]

1.5mm flex on a plug will be more than adequate for the permitted 13amp load.  IMHO

+1..

table 4F3A pg 354..

suggest that 1.25mm is good for 13A single phase AC

so 1.5mm with be more than adequate..

2.5mm Overkill  (25A)

 

[tsrplatelayer]

thanks guys