If you're like me, you have a major problem with cables taking over your home life. Here's a great, visually interesting way to overkill the solution -a whole wall of outlets.
Ah, if you lived in the UK all your sockets would have been childproof since the late 40s.
Despite which, you can still buy "childproof" covers for BS1363 sockets, in a classic example of "Won't someone think of the children". I presume someone saw them abroad and spotted a marketing opportunity to needlessly gouge money out of ill-informed parents. If used wrongly, the "safety" covers can actually make things a lot worse. http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/
Folks... you can have as many outlets as you want. The breaker to that wall is probably 20 Amps, or there could be several circuits. Overload the wall and the breakers will trip.
It's only a fire hazard if the capacity of the wire is substantially below the breaker rating... i.e., if the wire gauge is too small and the breaker too large and the demand exceeds the safe capacity of the wire.
Photoshop. The shadow for each plug goes directly down, despite the angled nature of the shot. The shadows are also the same size for every plug, despite two being obviously a bit bigger. (The warts.)
Installing an outlet by itself doesn't consume power, so having this setup (with nothing plugged in) wouldn't increase your power bill... but certainly would decrease structural stability of the house... as each outlet in your home is anchored to a wall stud behind the sheetrock. In order to have that configuration (and knowing the size of the outlet boxes), the studs would have to be less than half the width (traditionally a 2x4) while being massively perforated by nails (several for each outlet)... not to mention the wires running through. So yeah, not only is it impractical, expensive to implement... it's also nearly structurally impossible.
They DO make junction box like arrangements that have several outlets condensed inside a small area that would fit within two studs of a standard framed house, though...
Photoshop. The shadow for each plug goes directly down, despite the angled nature of the shot. The shadows are also the same size for every plug, despite two being obviously a bit bigger. (The warts.) There is also no depth to the shadows at all. (Especially behind the TV.
Installing an outlet by itself doesn't consume power, so having this setup (with nothing plugged in) wouldn't increase your power bill... but certainly would decrease structural stability of the house... as each outlet in your home is anchored to a wall stud behind the sheetrock. In order to have that configuration (and knowing the size of the outlet boxes), the studs would have to be less than half the width (traditionally a 2x4) while being massively perforated by nails (several for each outlet)... not to mention the wires running through. So yeah, not only is it impractical, expensive to implement... it's also nearly structurally impossible.
They DO make junction box like arrangements that have several outlets condensed inside a small area that would fit within two studs of a standard framed house, though...
Strange. Sorry for the double post, folks. My browser crashed after the first time and ctrl-f5 didn't display the post once I reloaded this page. *grumble* Yay for paste buffers.
Despite which, you can still buy "childproof" covers for BS1363 sockets, in a classic example of "Won't someone think of the children". I presume someone saw them abroad and spotted a marketing opportunity to needlessly gouge money out of ill-informed parents.
If used wrongly, the "safety" covers can actually make things a lot worse.
http://www.fatallyflawed.org.uk/
It's only a fire hazard if the capacity of the wire is substantially below the breaker rating... i.e., if the wire gauge is too small and the breaker too large and the demand exceeds the safe capacity of the wire.
Electricity isn't that complicated.
Installing an outlet by itself doesn't consume power, so having this setup (with nothing plugged in) wouldn't increase your power bill... but certainly would decrease structural stability of the house... as each outlet in your home is anchored to a wall stud behind the sheetrock. In order to have that configuration (and knowing the size of the outlet boxes), the studs would have to be less than half the width (traditionally a 2x4) while being massively perforated by nails (several for each outlet)... not to mention the wires running through. So yeah, not only is it impractical, expensive to implement... it's also nearly structurally impossible.
They DO make junction box like arrangements that have several outlets condensed inside a small area that would fit within two studs of a standard framed house, though...
Installing an outlet by itself doesn't consume power, so having this setup (with nothing plugged in) wouldn't increase your power bill... but certainly would decrease structural stability of the house... as each outlet in your home is anchored to a wall stud behind the sheetrock. In order to have that configuration (and knowing the size of the outlet boxes), the studs would have to be less than half the width (traditionally a 2x4) while being massively perforated by nails (several for each outlet)... not to mention the wires running through. So yeah, not only is it impractical, expensive to implement... it's also nearly structurally impossible.
They DO make junction box like arrangements that have several outlets condensed inside a small area that would fit within two studs of a standard framed house, though...
Um...no, not if it's NOT a load bearing wall.