The standard height is around 12" to 15" the bottom of the box above the floor but for the disabled you can install them higher but no more than 48" above the floor. Pick a height that will work for the disabled and install all of them the exact same height.
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UK Building Regulations does not specify an exact height. They do however recommend 45 cm minimum to the bottom of the outlet box from the floor. This does not apply to kitchens and garages. Switches should be mounted 1.2 m maximum above the floor to the top of the switch box.
Brown is the "hot" wire and blue is the neutral on a UK 220 volt power system.
Successful electric light bulbs were invented almost simultaneously by Alfred Swan in Britain, and Thomas Elva Edison in USA. Thus in UK they were marketed as Ediswan products. [After the lawyers had benefited from protracted battles.]
A '13-A socket outlet' is the popular name for the standard electrical socket used in the UK and other various other countries under the British sphere of influence such as the Arab Gulf countries.The term derives from the fact that the socket is designed to take fused plugs which are rated at 13-A which, with a nominal voltage of 230 V, supply loads up to 3 kW. In the UK, these sockets are connected using a ring main system, rather than a radial system used in most other countries.
800 wattsAnswerIt depends where you live. In North America the size of a kettle is limited by the supply at the receptacle (120 V/15 A) which means it cannot exceed 1800 W. In the UK, the supply is 230 v/13 A, so a kettle cannot exceed 2990 W.
Home electrical service in the UK is 230 volts at 50 hertz.