Quick little job today

As we had a spell of light rain today, I was thinking about seeing if I could straighten my mower blade as the grass is getting a bit long again and will soon need mowing. However, I decided to do a quick electrical job in the kitchen instead. Ever since I’ve been here, I’ve been running my fridge and freezer from an extension lead plugged into a socket across the other side of the kitchen, the one that I’ll be using for the washing machine actually, as there was no socket where they were standing. As they will be going back into the same positions, I needed to put a socket in there. As luck would have it, there is a socket in the same position on the other side of the wall in the bathroom (this is France, remember) so all I needed to do was make a hole through the wall, position a socket in the kitchen and connect the two up. Easy – so that’s what I did today, and it didn’t take long as I’d already bought the new socket and mounting box several days ago and happened to have a short length of power cable handy. Here are some (very poor) pictures showing what I did.

The wall is made from the same kind of hollow concrete blocks that I used to make my fireplace platform, rendered and plastered, so it took hardly any time at all to drill it and cut a hole for the box using a cold chisel. And it needed hardly any making good afterwards, which is one of the advantages of that type of construction. Only problem was, I did it all by eye and when I’d finished, the new socket wasn’t quite level. But never mind, it’s not worth losing sleep over and nobody except me will ever know when it’s behind the fridge and freezer 😉