powerpoint on waterfall island bench

thumper · May 26, 2009 4:40 pm

hello anybody & anyone! hoping to get ideas, pic on how other people go about this thxs

House-To-Be · May 26, 2009 5:15 pm

We have a point on our waterfall side. Builder did it for us, conduit runs behind the cutlery drawers and through the next cupboard. It's my most used point in the kitchen, use it for everything

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm30/house-to-be/cremornestuff1793.jpg

thumper · May 26, 2009 7:39 pm

thanks house-to-be, did your builder,electrican give you any other options, its probably where i will put one too just want to know all my options before making any final decision.

Macca's home · May 27, 2009 5:00 pm

We originally had a double powerpoint on each side of our waterfall bench and then ended up removing one of them. We removed the one that was visible to the rest of the house as the waterfall benchtop is a feature and we didn't want it ruining it (considering the benchtop is black).

We have so many other powerpoints in the kitchen we figured how many electrical things will we have plugged in at once??

sunflower613 · May 28, 2009 12:36 pm

We're also having a dark slab waterfall and didn't want the power points to be visable, so we've added them to the inside of the bench (pic attached).

We've added them above a half-width cupboard which will have a retractable door on it (you can open the door, but then slide it into the cupboard out of the way). This will have a slide-out tea towel rack in it. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅

Macca's home · May 28, 2009 2:04 pm

sunflower613

We're also having a dark slab waterfall and didn't want the power points to be visable, so we've added them to the inside of the bench (pic attached).

We've added them above a half-width cupboard which will have a retractable door on it (you can open the door, but then slide it into the cupboard out of the way). This will have a slide-out tea towel rack in it.

What a great idea!!!! That solves everything!

House-To-Be · May 28, 2009 4:55 pm

thumper

thanks house-to-be, did your builder,electrican give you any other options, its probably where i will put one too just want to know all my options before making any final decision.

That was the only option for us from PD. At first they were reluctant to cut into the stone so we thought about putting it into a cupboard but then they said they would do it so we got it.

I got the idea from H3nley displays, almost every house of theirs that I went into had it. I only have four GPO's in the kitchen, two are used permanently, one is near the oven which I don't use hardly at all and then the one on the Island which gets used alot.

sunflower613 · May 28, 2009 5:12 pm

This is a snazzy idea. You'd have to get a hole drilled into your benchtop, but the GPOs would sit flush with the benchtop when not in use.

This is from: http://www.hafelehome.com.au. They have lots of cool stuff. Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅

House-To-Be · May 28, 2009 5:24 pm

That's very snazzy sunflower!

thumper · May 28, 2009 7:07 pm

thanks sunflower, sounds like it might be the way to go, just wondering though what about the handle on the cupboard door? is their a big enough gap for the handle to slide in too? am i making any sense!!

sunflower613 · May 29, 2009 11:59 am

thumper

thanks sunflower, sounds like it might be the way to go, just wondering though what about the handle on the cupboard door? is their a big enough gap for the handle to slide in too? am i making any sense!!

To be honest I'm not too sure!

It will probably not have a handle as such, but a finger hollow or something at the top of the door to open it.

ellyash · May 29, 2009 2:35 pm

Quote:

This is a snazzy idea

So would that sit in the top of your bence and pop up for use :oops:

sorry if that is obvious.

I have just realised that we are going to have a power supply issue in our new kitchen as the wall where the point is that I use all the time is going to be demolished in our renovation and I don't know how we are going to get power there.

Here is our kitchen plan, I would do most of the cooking at the open corner side. There is less room beside the sink and the appliance cupboard that there appears.

Andrea

sunflower613 · May 29, 2009 2:51 pm

ellyash

Quote:

This is a snazzy idea

So would that sit in the top of your bence and pop up for use :oops:

sorry if that is obvious.

Yeah, I'm guessing you'd just give it a light tap to make it spring up, then push it down into place when you're done. I've not seen it actually used anywhere, I just saw it in the catalogue and thought it was pretty cool.

vivica7604 · May 18, 2011 11:54 pm

House-To-Be

We have a point on our waterfall side. Builder did it for us, conduit runs behind the cutlery drawers and through the next cupboard. It's my most used point in the kitchen, use it for everything

http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/mm30/house-to-be/cremornestuff1793.jpg

Hi i love this pic I was wanting to do waterfalls in stone on my l shape island bench, would you happen to have anymore photos of this bench
thanks

kyton · May 19, 2011 8:13 am

HTB hasn't been on the forum for quite a while. You could do a search and see whether she had a building thread previously.

Starz · May 19, 2011 8:30 am

We are going with the waterfall bench to only one side of the Kitchen (the side most seen be passers by and the other side I have a 30mm overhang with a power point on that side.
My friend had her Kitchen built with 2 power points on the waterfall stone, it looked a bit odd to me and she had probs closing the drawers on that side.
She is used to it now but I decided to go with the overhang.

Mrs P · May 19, 2011 9:34 am

Im putting two on the back of my island in the top corners so they aren't visible

Casa2 · May 19, 2011 9:42 am

Macca's home

We originally had a double powerpoint on each side of our waterfall bench and then ended up removing one of them. We removed the one that was visible to the rest of the house as the waterfall benchtop is a feature and we didn't want it ruining it (considering the benchtop is black).

We have so many other powerpoints in the kitchen we figured how many electrical things will we have plugged in at once??

Why not just get black power points? (Hate the idea of not readily accessible power points.)

inverell · May 19, 2011 3:44 pm

How about a pop-up power point?? It would be less noticeable than a traditional outlet. Better still you can mount it on the top of your bench to avoid spoiling the look of your Caesaratone waterfall altogether. I saved the below photos from someone’s thread last year (sorry I can’t remember who and I hope they don’t mind)! They are made by Clipsal and are available in white too- I reckon if you have a white bench like ice snow or similar you would not even notice it if you place a fruit platter or something next to it. If the pop-ups don’t float your boat and you want an outlet on the waterfall itself then the Clipsal Saturns are pretty shmick too and come in slimline black and white- less obvious than a metal finish IMO.

Cheers

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/inverell/ClipsalPop-upoutlet1.jpg

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/inverell/ClipsalPop-upoutlet2.jpg

http://i1200.photobucket.com/albums/bb326/inverell/ClipsalPop-upOutletWhite.jpg

kyton · May 19, 2011 4:25 pm

I think that build was Nathan's? The only issue I would have with the pop-ups is that they will impact on whatever is below the benchtop. Ie in some cases you wouldn't be able to have a drawer as there may be a clearance issue.

I have a double PP on the "dead" side of my island bench. It is the farthest away side so not seen unless you walk to that end. Both of my ends are 80mm waterfalls and as it was mounted on the side had no impact on the drawers / cupboards on the other side of the waterfalls.