Wanted - used kitchen worktop with hole

[Adrian Godwin]

Does anyone have a chunk of kitchen worktop, preferably with a hob hole already cut in it please ?
Or is there one on your local freecycle ? A frame might also be constructed out of scrap timber.

I had an idea for the spare hob (the one that probably won't be used in the kitchen). Mount it in a small frame, add some heavy cable (with a 32A plug) and use it as a portable hob. A 32A socket can probably be wired to one of the many switches around the room, near the ceiling. 

This will then allow cooking before we build the proper kitchen, and can be used for an extra hob if we occasionally need it after the kitchen is built, all for the price of a length of cable and a couple of plugs.

-artag

[Charles Yarnold]

I don't have the wood, but I think this sounds like a great idea.

Sol

[Gavin Bell]

Probably best to make a raised frame out of spare timber lengths, the bit that is left over from a new kitchen is the inner bit and the size of hobs does vary.
Also iirc it is important to leave some free space under the hob for heat dissipation, I think that they are not designed for use on top of another surface
Cheers Gavin

[6tricky9]

On Dec 9, 10:19 am, Adrian Godwin <artgod...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I had an idea for the spare hob (the one that probably won't be used in the
> kitchen). Mount it in a small frame, add some heavy cable (with a 32A plug)
> and use it as a portable hob. A 32A socket can probably be wired to one of
> the many switches around the room, near the ceiling.

A cooker/hob is supposed to be on its own fused circuit.

Richard

[Adrian Godwin]

Yes, but I think those switches probably are each a separate fused circuit, originally wired for servers or heat extraction or something. Adding a suitable socket would be OK (but not without checking).

-adrian