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When I was doing up the house, I wanted to mount the electrical sockets on the skirting boards, but these were quite thin and it made them rather close to the ground. Some appliances would have been hard to plug in, because the cable emerges from the plug downwards.

So I mounted them upside down. And you know what? It's much more convenient that way, and where you have to reach down behind something to get to them, it's a damn sight easier to plug plugs in that way up.

I'm always going to mount them that way, in future...

* stand on your head and read it
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 14:03, 7 replies)

that's fantastic.
We're having some rennovation work done soon, hopefully, and I'm going to instruct that this be done.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 14:12, closed)

No doubt it will contravene the P6 regulations, or whatever they're called
...because the electricity will leak out if they're the wrong way up, perhaps.

Luckily, my house is so far from being up to spec (in fact light takes several hours to get to me from the current standards) that I don't have to worry about such things. I asked an electrician about certifying some installations, and he had to sit down he was laughing so hard.
(moon monkey is busy making memories worth repressing, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 14:24, closed)

I've gone round my house
removing plug sockets from skirting boards, and sinking them into the walls.

It's been a fucking pain, but sockets on skirting boards are stupid.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 14:59, closed)

This, a thousand times over.

( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 9:46, closed)

but...
... aren't some plugs designed the other way up to account for this. Why not put the sockets in sideways?
( evil_chutney, Tue 15 Mar 2011, 17:33, closed)

Or in a sleeve that allows 180 degrees of rotation.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Tue 15 Mar 2011, 17:56, closed)

The chippie I used to put up tongue and groove
Cut it in around the plug sockets, with the sockets so far recessed that you can't get a plug in because of the flex.
Or he couldn't be arsed to cut around them and just covered them up.
Hurry up wireless electricity!
( monkeyboyalpha jumping on the bandwagon since, Wed 16 Mar 2011, 14:13, closed)