Hi all,
Just fishing for a little advice. We are a few days away from PCI and all our appliances have been installed, we supplied our own cooktop, oven and range hood but paid the builder to install them. According to our contact we have 1 single power point for the range hood, fridge and dishwasher. The dishwasher and fridge power points are just a standard power point which we expected. The range hood however is a completely different story! Upon inspecting the range hood today my husband noticed that behind the range hood (its a slide out one) there is a gaping big hole that the power cord is thread through. The electricians have just smashed the tiles behind it (not even cut them neatly) and apparently the range hood is connected to power inside the wall. It means we cannot turn it on or off and that if we ever wanted to replace it with anything else, there would be a big hole in the wall! To us this is not a 'power point' as stated in our contract. We have brought the situation up with our Site Supervisor but he basically just said that this is the way it's usually done so that they don't have to cut a hole into the cabinetry. Needless to say we were not too happy with the answer and plan on taking the matter further. Has anyone else come across an issue like this? If so how was it resolved?