"Robin" wrote in message
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On 14/10/2020 15:54, GB wrote:
On 14/10/2020 14:15, tim... wrote:

and 3. Moving the cooker switch to under the counter top.

AIUI the requirement is that it should be remote from the cooker by some
(unknown to me) distance.

So you can turn the power off under a chip pan fire without getting
burnt, is that the idea?

There's long been guidance in the OSG that it's a "bad thing" to fit a
cooker unit directly above a cooker. But I've never been clear if that's:

'cos of chip fires (an emergency for which I'd recommend using the
consumer unit anyway)

'cos of the heat/steam/smoke from cooking

'cos a lot of them have a socket and there's the risk of flex across the
hob

let alone on the basis of which reg(s).

With luck Adam will tell us what he codes them - and whether the less
savoury end of the market does the same.

Here's a sort of summary

https://www.davidsavery.com/index.ph...solator-switch

"If youre having a new kitchen, it is considered best practice for a cooker
switch to be installed within two metres of the appliance, but not within
300mm of its hot surface"

Oh dear, mine, installed only a year ago, are at 200