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Morning to the Forum. Been asked to reposition double socket around
the corner but there's less room.Is there any convention against
fitting two new s/o one above other, apart from looking odd.
Replies appreciated. Dean.
 
as long as the appliance flexes aren't stressed, nothing wrong with it.
 
Morning to the Forum. Been asked to reposition double socket around
the corner but there's less room.Is there any convention against
fitting two new s/o one above other, apart from looking odd.
Replies appreciated. Dean.


None to my knowledge. Just make sure that any plug top leads from the top socket outlet doesn't interfere with the workings of the socket outlet below. We have several area's on this project where we will be installing multiple socket outlet's one above the other, although these will be mounted within vertical post trunking....
 
Quite often do it nowadays, especially behind where the tv goes, usually fit 3 doubles because of the amount of things that need plugging in, tv, sky, DVD, phone, router, playstation.
 
Probably best to leave a space betwixt each one. Ive done it & when somethings plugged in the lower one i can't easily plug something in the top one without the flex being all....cronky
 
cables n all Tel....could get 32A pulled here....on a short section of the ring (in theory)...

So?

Unless it's right next to the board, producing an unbalanced ring, no problem. This sort of arrangement is mostly needed where you have a large number of small loads, eg behing TV, as KevinS says.
 

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