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Is it safe to sleep close to an electrical socket?

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Been asked to move a power socket in a clients bedroom as the wife is concerned about the health effects of sleeping right next to the socket. To be honest I've not come across this before so it threw me a bit.


The socket is right behind the headboard (on the wife's side) and has a trailing extension lead plugged into it powering a clock, a table lamp and a phone charger. I think the previous owners must have had the house rewired at some point and used that room as a 'twin' and not a double as the sockets are in really odd places around the room.


She's concerned that there is an electromagnetic field right close to her head (about 5 or 6 inches away) for around 8 hours during the night and how that may affect her health.


Not that I'm going to talk her out of it ? but should I recommend a tin foil hat?
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    mapj1:

    well  a socket under the tap would be worse, but only marginally. I presume they have  a pressure washer. Used carefully it will be OK, so long as they fit the hose before using the tap, and close the flapper both with plugs in  or not,  but it is not the brightest location, at some point the rubbers on the hose couplers perish, and then they start to squirt  a fine jet, and then the socket is in the possible firing line. I'd be happy to strongly suggest they move either the tap or the socket a  bit.


    That is an example of a socket that  really should be disturbing someone's sleep, ideally the person who fitted it.




    I'm glad that's your view because when I saw it I thought oh no but didn't want to stick my head above the parapit on here and decry it in case I got shot down for it.


    The sad thing is that the picture is in a Facebook post, posted the other day spontaneously by the customer who was praising the electrician who installed it, for their professionalism. Oh dear.


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    mapj1:

    well  a socket under the tap would be worse, but only marginally. I presume they have  a pressure washer. Used carefully it will be OK, so long as they fit the hose before using the tap, and close the flapper both with plugs in  or not,  but it is not the brightest location, at some point the rubbers on the hose couplers perish, and then they start to squirt  a fine jet, and then the socket is in the possible firing line. I'd be happy to strongly suggest they move either the tap or the socket a  bit.


    That is an example of a socket that  really should be disturbing someone's sleep, ideally the person who fitted it.




    I'm glad that's your view because when I saw it I thought oh no but didn't want to stick my head above the parapit on here and decry it in case I got shot down for it.


    The sad thing is that the picture is in a Facebook post, posted the other day spontaneously by the customer who was praising the electrician who installed it, for their professionalism. Oh dear.


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