What Electrical Circuit Requirements For Kitchens?
We all know that a kitchen uses more electricity than any other room in the home, and in a kitchen that uses electrical cooking appliances, this means that it needs as many as seven or eight circuits. If we compare this to the requirements for a bedroom or other living area, where a single general-purpose lighting circuit can serve all the light fixtures and plug-in outlets.
At a time, maximum kitchen appliances were plugged into ordinary general circuit, but as kitchen appliances have become larger and larger over the years, it's now standard and required by building code for each of these appliances to have a dedicated circuit that serves them and kitchen also requires small appliance circuits and at least one lighting circuit.
We all see that in old homes there is no updated wiring system and it is very common for kitchen wiring to be undersized for the electrical demands of a modern kitchen. Let's take an example like a kitchen which have only two or three circuits, and for basic appliances like the refrigerator, dishwasher to be powered by the same general-purpose circuit that powers the light fixtures and countertops.
Older wiring systems are always allowed to remain in place when a kitchen undergoes modest remodeling efforts, such as replacement of appliances, flooring and countertops.
During the new construction of the kitchen or major kitchen remodeling, the building code will always likely require that you have bought both the plumbing and wiring systems into alignment with the current code requirements. This also involves adding electrical circuits and protection so that the appliances and the circuit both are safe and easy to use.
AFCI stands for Arc Fault Circuit Interrupters, these protection devices are designed in such a manner so that it can sense sparking (arcing) that occurs when electricity fluctuation occurs or electricity jumps between faulty wire connections. It shut down the current flow before a fire can occur and GFCI protection devices are used for preventing and protecting against electric shocks.
For every Kitchen, the best advice is that you have to make sure that all 15-amp and 20-amp circuits have AFCI protection and also don't forget to install circuit breakers with built-in AFCI protection.
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