I think you probably have too much faith in 'sealing'. In my experience, everything in a kitchen eventually gets filfthy and greasy if it is not fairly regularly cleaned - and you-know-who's Law being what it is, it's often the least easily accessible places that get the filthiest, if neglected.
So no then?
How/where was that connected to electrical power?
We don't all know someone who had a botched operation by an 'expert' surgeon.
Basically, we cannot trust a single thing you tell us, can we.
No.
It certainly would be if there were electrical work to be done. However, the the only thing which seems certain is that the electrician plugged the appliance into a socket which had been there for 20 years - and it's not clear (at least, not to me, what, if any, further electrical work the electrician did.
post 27, appears he fitted a new socket front and box and a gland, he further explained the old box and socket, i assume was in the same location, was also full of grease somehow..
Yes, I saw that. In fact, he had said the same thing previously in post #22. However, that appears to be the one part of the work done that the OP is not criticising or concerned about (once he was reassured about the stuffing gland)! - and, although (as you say) others may have done it differently, I don't think any of us really have any problems with that work (on the basis of what we can see), either.
Yes, I wondered that - maybe the answer is in the other thread. If it had been a very long duct run, I suppose there might conceivably have been some point, but the photos seem to indicate that it just 'goes through the wall' - in which case I can't for the life of me imagine what benefit it could confer!
