Never Enough Sockets in Modern Houses.

No the term "plug socket" is a big no no.

Electric socket or power socket are OK

Am I being a bit think here but the plug top goes into a socket hence plug socket....

Plug socket is a pretty universal term ?

Pretty regional I suspect - around here they're either just "sockets" or "plugs" (yes, I know...) or sometimes "plug points". Across the pond they're "receptacles". "Outlet" get used occasionally too.


  - Andy.

Such are the unintended consequences of shouldn't use extension leads .... etc

(no matter how little power, and that they still have a fuse at the end of the chain) ??


But has the definite look of a place that was used as an office/business and showroom located in a residential home....lots of towns have streets/areas where that has happened after all.

Blimey!


This is what I have in my office at home:


phone transmitter/receiver

desk phone

modem

desk fan

desk light

internet computer

screen for the above

scanner

photocopier

main computer

screen for main computer

speakers for main computer

printer

iPad charger

laptop charger

camera battery charger

television

freeview box

video recorder

DVD player

speakers for television


It doesn't seem excessive to me, but I have far too few socket outlets and a shameful number of extension leads and two and three way adaptors.

I live in a road that has three and “four” bedroom semi detached houses built in the 1960’s.


At that time the Council Rating Officer visited new homes to assess the Rateable Value of Homes to determine how much the home owners or tenants would have to pay in Rates to the council  each month.


The number of bedrooms and the number of socket outlet were both assessed with the Rateable Value increasing with additional bedrooms and sockets.


The three bed houses had one single socket in each bedroom. The “four bed” houses were sold as houses with three bedrooms and a box room, only the bedrooms had a socket which was a single, the box room did not have a socket although it is big enough to use as a single bedroom. 


This kept the Rateable Value down leading to a saving on what had to be paid to the council for many years. Fifty years later some of the four bed houses still only have three single sockets upstairs.


Andy Betteridge

I thought middlesex was still middlesex. In truth it may well be. Lancashire is still Lancashire which includes Liverpool, Blackpool, Manchester etc. They may have chaged their admin boundaries but geographically they remain to me. So three cheers for Middlesex I says. Long Live Cumberland and the Ridings of Yorkshire too.