Hi, 

Mrs and I both agree that we need a couple power sockets on the kitchen bench. 
Not on the bench as such but will look at mounting a double socket outlet on the architrave / piece between the bench and the window ledge thus the hole for cable can be drilled through the bench into the cupboard. 

2 Questions
1) Over the standard, should we use an RCD socket/outlet or Thermal protected outlet? (kitchen sink is about 1.5m away). 
2) Looking at existing wiring, theres a small hot water cylinder in the corner under the bench where I plan to have this extra power, would a sparky be able to tap off the power outlet that uses (HWC is hard wired to that outlet and has its own fuse on the switch board). 

House is about 14 years old. 

As mentioned, I'll find a sparky to do this work. 

Thanks for any suggestions. 


If we can't tap off the hwc outlet (constantly on / not on ripple AFAIK), then I'd have to think about trying to get a cable past the dish draw to under the sink where a couple power outlets are for both the dish washer and waste disposal. The issue is, I don't want to have to pull out the dish draw just to pull thru cable.



Edit; added some text etc.