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European double sockets

HI All


1) Does anyone know if a European double socket face plate fits a standard UK double socket back box?

2) I assume these will need extra deep back boxes if they do?

3) I am getting sent over to Germany (Berlin) soon to do some office type electrical install work because it seems that all of the trades are off on holiday or something? Does anyone on the forum know if the trades all go off in Germany soon or if perhaps this is a local supply problem where all of the German staff for their usual electrical installer company are off on holiday. It is interesting that they cannot get local companies to do the office fit out and they're definitely paying us over the odds to do the work instead; this is a multinational company that we often do work for and the purchase order is from our usual lot here in the UK, so no worries with payment. 

4) Will the wholesalers sell anything to anyone?


Kind Regards


Tatty
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  • I went for a long weekend in Berlin last year, I doubt you will work on a Sunday and will find working hours are much more rigid.


    Currently I am sat in my van looking across Bath in glorious sunshine with the abbey tower framed against the green wooded hills behind it, over the last year I have literally traveled the length and breadth of the country, but my only international trips have been to Wales. I have just carried everything I am likely to need with me and have only been to local wholesalers four times, but I am working out of a van not a suitcase.


    It does sharpen the wits when you’re a hours drive from a wholesaler.


    Andy B
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  • I went for a long weekend in Berlin last year, I doubt you will work on a Sunday and will find working hours are much more rigid.


    Currently I am sat in my van looking across Bath in glorious sunshine with the abbey tower framed against the green wooded hills behind it, over the last year I have literally traveled the length and breadth of the country, but my only international trips have been to Wales. I have just carried everything I am likely to need with me and have only been to local wholesalers four times, but I am working out of a van not a suitcase.


    It does sharpen the wits when you’re a hours drive from a wholesaler.


    Andy B
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