Electrical — Appliances
The appliance has been delivered and the supply is in place: what remains is to connect it properly, make sure it does not trip the breaker, and ensure it can one day be disconnected without taking the kitchen apart.
Time
One to two hours, depending on the appliance
Check
Current measured under load
Area
Paris 6th, 7th, 14th, 15th, 16th
What I check every time I connect an appliance.
A connection box for a hob, a 16 or 20 A socket for the rest. Terminals tightened to the correct torque, conductors the right way round, earth connected — this is where later overheating is decided.
Before connecting, I look at what the line already supplies and what protection it carries. A new appliance on an old, overloaded circuit is a trip waiting to happen.
Many hobs are wired differently depending on whether the supply is single or three-phase: links must be fitted or removed in the terminal block. Done wrong, the hob half works, or burns out.
A socket within reach, an appliance that comes out of its cabinet without breaking anything. I plan for it at the time of connection, because no one thinks of it until something fails.
I run the appliance and measure what it actually draws. Five minutes show whether the circuit holds — better then than at the first family dinner.
Other services
Consumer units · Ceramic kiln installation · Fault-finding and electrical repairs · Switch replacement · Socket replacement · New sockets · Bringing wiring up to standard · Recessed spotlight installation · Recessed spotlight replacement · Appliance installation · Appliance connection · Lamps and light fittings · Doorbells · Radiator and towel rail installation · Radiator and towel rail replacement
From the workshop's other trades
Washing machine and dishwasher connection · Kitchen worktops
If a dedicated line already exists and is correctly sized, it is a connection: quick, and charged accordingly. If a new way has to be created at the consumer unit and the cable run, it is an installation. Send me a photo of the consumer unit and of the location, and I will tell you which before I come.
Five arrondissements — the Left Bank, and the 16th just across the river — covered neighbourhood by neighbourhood. Each arrondissement has its own page, as does each neighbourhood.
Paris 6th Luxembourg · Rue de Rennes · Saint Sulpice · Mabillon · Raspail · Notre Dame des Champs · Odéon · Montparnasse · Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Paris 7th Champ-de-Mars · La Tour-Maubourg · Saint-François-Xavier · Rue du Bac · Saint-Germain · Solférino · Saint-Thomas-d'Aquin · Invalides · Ecole Militaire · Gros Caillou
Paris 14th Brune · Didot · Montsouris · Denfert Rochereau · Mouton Duvernet · Plaisance · Pernety · Montparnasse · Alésia
Paris 15th Necker · Saint Lambert · Vaugirard · Croix Nivert · Lecourbe · Convention · Commerce · Javel · Beaugrenelle · Grenelle
Paris 16th Trocadéro · Passy · Auteuil · La Muette · Victor Hugo · Porte Dauphine · Chaillot · Ranelagh · Exelmans · Porte de Saint-Cloud
Beyond these five arrondissements: elsewhere in Paris and the Île-de-France, depending on the project.
Tell me about the situation, with a photo if you have one. I reply the same day.