Connecting washing machine to fused spur

Ok guys thanks for clarifying, especially Pocah. I believe it's not a fused spur but a fused outlet, though I'm unable to physically check until I can get down to the house this week, sorry to draw this out I don't have it in front of me!

If it is a fused spur and not simply an outlet I'll get a spark to have a look at putting a socket in.

If it is a fused outlet ie no load etc is it safe to swap out for a socket? Also I'll check the fuse to make sure it's 13A and not higher?

Edit - this is a new build house with no previous owners
 
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iamdjdz said:
Edit - this is a new build house with no previous owners
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That makes it sound even more like it could be a fused outlet. They probably just haven't bothered opening up the cable outlet, a sensible idea really until something is connected. You don't want people poking things into the hole :D

But as a few of us have mentioned, you won't know for sure until you've had chance to look at it :)
 
A new build will have a Switched FCU above the worktop and a single 1gang unswitched socket in the appliance space. If you can't see anything in the spaces where the appliance is supposed to go, I would bet my mortgage it's behind a unit and someones made a mistake or the kitchen drawings been changed.

Long and short of it, if it's a new build, speak to the building. They should have to deal with it. not you.

Source: New build electrician.
 
It's just going to be an outlet plate like my first post mentioned.

This is all getting a little silly lol.

You will have a bank of spurs which control the outlets for each appliance.

Take it off and replace with a socket outlet if you want or connect into the outlet plate.
 
Ok so I went down to the house tonight and it's a fused outlet with a 13amp fuse so should be safe to swap to a switched socket.. nothing coming out of the load connections.
 
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