Install Electrical Outlet Under Sink

There are some caveats as to how the outlets are installed.

Install electrical outlet under sink. The vast majority of the homes i inspect have one or more outlets deliberately installed there just for those reasons. The dishwasher as well as the disposal is plugged into an outlet with an appliance cord. A wall switch located at the counter top level near the kitchen sink controls the garbage disposal and the dishwasher is plugged into one of the outlets of a duplex outlet. There is no existing hole for an outlet and there seems to be cabinet or some other kind of thin plywood where i would want to mount it so i m looking for the best and obviously safest way to put an outlet there.

Ernie the outlet for the garbage disposal and dishwasher is generally located in the base cabinet under the kitchen sink. So which is it. There s no rule mandating the height of the new box so just match the height of the existing one. The code for kitchens states that there must be an outlet within a 2 ft.

Install a metal electrical box under the sink within reach of the garbage disposal power cord. This is ironic since i was going to wire a new receptacle under my sink tonight last night i ran the romex to the metal box. Reach from anywhere along the countertop excluding those areas where there s a sink or stovetop. There was an outlet there before presumably for a garbage disposal although there isn t a g d.

The new one has a plug so it would be much easier to install an outlet under the sink and plug in the new disposal than to wire it the old way.