Hi all,

I've just moved house and am in the process of getting my kitchen ready
for new units and appliances fitted (it's empty at the moment) and
about the only thing I have left to work out is how to wire in the
cooker hood! I'm struggling a bit with this one so I have for some
advice...

I've just had a good look through the past posts on here and there
seems to be lots of good tips, from what I can gather I'm best wiring
it into a switched and fused spur off the ring main?

I also gather that having it extracting to the outside is much better
than having it re-circulating? The hood I've chosen does both, but it
is being mounted on an exterior wall so I could have it extracting.
There's no hole in the wall presently though, is it a huge job to make
that? I'm not sure what diameter we're talking about! I think the wall
is made of breeze block as it's an extension.

What I need to work out is where I can place the actual socket to plug
the unit into. It'll be mounted on a tiled wall and isn't adjacent to
any cupboards, so to avoid having a visible socket on the wall near it
I was thinking that the socket could go behind the chimney section?

This is the actual hood he

http://www.ikea.com/webapp/wcs/store...umber=50096175

I've looked at these mounted up in Ikea and the chimney section seems
to be seperate from the actual hood section (in the shop you could
actually lift it off). I was worried that inside the chimney section
may be too hot/damp to safely have a socket on the wall but having
inspected them that part seems almost cosmetic?

If it's going to be too damp for a socket is something like this safe
(looks better sealed):

http://www.screwfix.com/app/sfd/cat/...65551&ts=30387

That's also metal which is presumably better from a heat point of view?

Thanks,

Ian.