Weird!!

[Sureitsoff?]

Never seen anything like this before

for sale on my local FB page if you want it!

hot plates set into the worktop individually

would love to see the wiring underneath

 

[ericmark]

I paid about £30 for a stand alone induction hob from Lidi single heat area, why would anyone fit resistive hobs today? Double induction hob B&Q £52 hope it was no free cycle?

 

[SUNRAY]

Never seen anything like this before

for sale on my local FB page if you want it!

hot plates set into the worktop individually

would love to see the wiring underneath

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Oh dear that ages me.

In 1980's I did some casual work for a fitted wardrobe manufacturer/installer who specialised in housing developements and of course all of the SE fitters did kitchens too so there was regular multi room cooperation (as in: wire this for me while I fit and align some of your doors).

I have fitted several sets of these, correction fitted one set and wired a dozen or so, the hotplates were supplied with a terminated heat resistant flex and a couple of (very specific) cable clips, the controls were 2 different makes or styles:
One style had a matching plate requiring a big cutout, containing the control knobs and a set of terminals for each cable (hot plates, supply and possibly cooker hood and oven) ,
The other had individual control units which could be mounted anywhere, these were commonly mounted to a plate under the worktop (which I imagine it the case with this one) so just the knobs shew but the option was to dot them around nearer each hotplate.

Generally the hotplates were set in a straight line nearer the back of the worktop which I always thought was wrong as the housewife would be constantly leaning forwards (before any sexist comments I only mentioned housewife as they tend to be shorter and therfore a more acute leaning over angle)but it did retain almost half of the worktop for other use.

There was/is a neon on each hotplate which could be wired to show it was either: Switched on, heating, not heating.

Oh dear far too much nostalgia

 

[EFLImpudence]

(before any sexist comments I only mentioned housewife as they tend to be shorter and therfore a more acute leaning over angle)

Don't encourage the idiots by making unnecessary excuses.

 

[ericmark]

as they tend to be shorter

The problem I had was disabled in a wheel chair, never even thought about it until pointed out, but many of the modern touch controls can't be seen when sitting in a wheel chair.

But the main problem was pans tipping, or spilling, the idea is the hob is slightly lower than work top, not slightly higher, so any spills are retained within the hob and don't run onto the work top, the ones shown do have a catchment area, so are good, but the machine to allow the hob to be let into the work top are darn expensive, so to use what you show either whole work top fitted, or it will simply cost too much to get second hand stuff installed, so can't see anyone would want it.

I put our old oven and hob on free cycle, and no takers, so scrapped.

 

[Sureitsoff?]

Oh dear that ages me.

In 1980's I did some casual work for a fitted wardrobe manufacturer/installer who specialised in housing developements and of course all of the SE fitters did kitchens too so there was regular multi room cooperation (as in: wire this for me while I fit and align some of your doors).

I have fitted several sets of these, correction fitted one set and wired a dozen or so, the hotplates were supplied with a terminated heat resistant flex and a couple of (very specific) cable clips, the controls were 2 different makes or styles:
One style had a matching plate requiring a big cutout, containing the control knobs and a set of terminals for each cable (hot plates, supply and possibly cooker hood and oven) ,
The other had individual control units which could be mounted anywhere, these were commonly mounted to a plate under the worktop (which I imagine it the case with this one) so just the knobs shew but the option was to dot them around nearer each hotplate.

Generally the hotplates were set in a straight line nearer the back of the worktop which I always thought was wrong as the housewife would be constantly leaning forwards (before any sexist comments I only mentioned housewife as they tend to be shorter and therfore a more acute leaning over angle)but it did retain almost half of the worktop for other use.

There was/is a neon on each hotplate which could be wired to show it was either: Switched on, heating, not heating.

Oh dear far too much nostalgia

I can send you the link if you want to be reminded more............