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I know we've joked before about mounting sockets upside down when fitted to skirting boards to avoid flex being squished, but I came across a double socket mounted clockwise at 90 degrees at a friends house.
This is behind a fridge, and feeds the fridge, and the microwave that sits on top. Switched from a 20A DP grid.
I wasn't there doing electrical work. He needed help moving the fridge to decorate.
I think, without getting my tools out, that my friend couldn't fit it in horizontally.... Its on a fastfix box and I can see from the screwheads in the plasterboard that the joints are pretty close together so he wouldn't have been able to fit a double box in the gap the right way.
Is there an actual reg for this, or is it just non-standard?
I've visited New Zealand, and their sockets can be placed horizontally or vertically. The plugtops are made with the flex at 45 deg to the pins, so that when plugged in, the flex just hangs without due stress
This is behind a fridge, and feeds the fridge, and the microwave that sits on top. Switched from a 20A DP grid.
I wasn't there doing electrical work. He needed help moving the fridge to decorate.
I think, without getting my tools out, that my friend couldn't fit it in horizontally.... Its on a fastfix box and I can see from the screwheads in the plasterboard that the joints are pretty close together so he wouldn't have been able to fit a double box in the gap the right way.
Is there an actual reg for this, or is it just non-standard?
I've visited New Zealand, and their sockets can be placed horizontally or vertically. The plugtops are made with the flex at 45 deg to the pins, so that when plugged in, the flex just hangs without due stress