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Kitchen, room electrical installation, distribution re-installation

Electrical installation continued in the kitchen.

As a first step, the mounting boxes need to be glued to the wall somehow. I used sand and plaster for this.

Since there was no sand at home, just gravel, I had to sift out a bucket of sand from it.

First I sifted the sand with it into a small bucket, then after 2-3 sifts I poured it into the blue bucket.

This was necessary because sometimes larger pebbles can get into it with a single bad move while sifting,

so only the contents of the small bucket need to be re-sieved. With such a small filter (which I used as a sieve) this happens.

The finer the grid, the smaller the grain of sand we can get, which results in a nicer surface when smoothing.

The kitchen used to have a built-in 2-2 distribution box space, which doesn’t suit me as there will be 2x3 outlets.

This is because the network will have 3 phases and so the adjacent sockets can each operate from a different phase.

In this case, it is not a problem to start the coffee maker, the toaster and the microwave at the same time, because this way the load per phase does not exceed 16 Amperes ...

In the picture, the location of the sockets on the left is still marked.

The place is already drilled here. For this I used a 67mm carbide insert core drill.

Stackable boxes should fit together exactly. There was a little more to engrave around them.

The other parts were also engraved.

After gluing the boxes and the protective piping, the 2.5mm2 copper cables were also laid.

Since the house will have 3 phases, 5 wires will run side by side. This still fits in protective tube 16mm.

The power cables were also pulled into the box and then back toward the junction box.

The cables run on the side of the beam in conduits. The retaining tabs have been screwed up in advance.

Unfortunately, the holes in the junction box are not always where they are needed. In this case, a stepped drill bit comes in handy.

Cables in place, protective pipes plastered.

The cables run along the roof on the side of the base threads. You can't step on it here by accident.

It is unfortunate to carry the cables on top of a beam because it can be easily damaged there if we step on it

At the edge of the roof, due to the angle of the roof, it is impossible to tread them on the side of the beam.

The thick cable is a 5x10 ground cable (this also comes in the house).

This goes separately towards the workshop as it is the farthest point of the house and there may be larger consumers there in the future.

The contents of the junction boxes are tied, the kitchen part can be considered ready. The lighting in the house will be a completely separate system.

Unfortunately, the kitchen wall cracked because some "knowledgeable" people jumped from the roof to the top of the wall ...

I cut a groove at the bottom and in the middle of the wall.

I smeared this with tile adhesive,

then I pressed a rebar into the “mortar”

Which was smoothed out. This way, the wall has already been reinforced enough, but you will even get a fiberglass mesh to prevent any future cracks.

I needed another junction box here.

The incoming cable will be distributed in the newly created distribution box, and a separate fault current switch (Fi relay) will operate from there,

about which the refrigerator will work. I don't want anything in the house to melt down, the fridge to thaw ...

This picture was taken while the box was installed.

The internal distribution cabinet has been outsourced because the whole system has been optimized, which means equally long rows.

(Fi relay + 3x3 phase connected by comb rail).

Fault current switches and circuit breakers have already been installed here. Each row has separate PE and Null guide rails.

Here most of the cables are already connected.

Finally, the cable duct covers were added. The look of the distributor has already become more beautiful.

In the meantime, I used 2 old beams in the room as a stand. This made it easier to carve out the location of the cables.

The wall groove cutter, which I tied to the vacuum cleaner, was a big help in this.

The sockets were also doubled. Unfortunately, a piece of brick broke out here.

Plastering starts. Fortunately, there were no fractures in the background. Only the boxes were plastered, not to say my feet.

The rest is also glued.

The red round batteries are plaster covers in place of the sockets. It will be a great help when plastering.

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