Kitchen Electrical Provisions: What to Tell Your Electrician Before First Fix

Your electrician plans cable runs. Without a kitchen-specific brief, they plan socket positions and circuit sizes based on generic assumptions rather than your layout. The result is sockets at the wrong height, dedicated circuits missing, and provisions your kitchen fitter finds are not where they need to be. The electrical layout planning guide covers the general process, socket heights, and the cables-in-screed timing problem. Read that first. Kitchen extensions add several provisions no generic extension requires: the exact heights to annotate on your drawing for each position type, the full appliance circuit list, the Quooker socket, island floor conduit, and under-cabinet lighting cable.