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Multiple Ring Spurs.

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When was it common to run a ring final in a loft of say a bungalow, and have multiple spurs running down to sockets in rooms below? Why did this come about? Was it a wartime materials' saving provision? I am working in an old building wired in the early to mid 60s and no sockets seem to be on a ring, just spurs, but there are rings at the fuse box. The collection of a multitude of junction boxes is something to behold. It is junction box city, now all hidden under layers of glass fibre insulation. A real pig.


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    ebee:

     And pull switches in bedrooms a lot of folk were used to calling them "lazy switches" or even "lazy Betty switches" (who the heck was Betty) and therefore thought it lazy to be able to switch the "Big Light" off whilst in bed, they would rather beggar about walking to switch by door and use a table lamp becasuse "it`s always done that way".

     


    I am going to reinstate a damaged lazy light pull cord ceiling switch this coming week. It is two way switched with the door switch. The lazy switch is positioned over the bed head. The wall switch box is made of wood. The three core cable has red, white and blue coloured cores. There is no earth wire. Who needs an earth when the switch is plastic and the box is wooden? Oh, the good old simple days when a ceiling switch was an additional  luxury.


    An on line search reveals this,


    What is a lazy Betty?

    A lazy Betty is a pull-cord light switch, which may be operated from a bed. In answer to the obvious follow-on question ' Why is the light switch above beds called a lazy betty? Who was Betty?' the only comment I've been able to find sadly says 'No record for "lazy betty" '


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    ebee:

     And pull switches in bedrooms a lot of folk were used to calling them "lazy switches" or even "lazy Betty switches" (who the heck was Betty) and therefore thought it lazy to be able to switch the "Big Light" off whilst in bed, they would rather beggar about walking to switch by door and use a table lamp becasuse "it`s always done that way".

     


    I am going to reinstate a damaged lazy light pull cord ceiling switch this coming week. It is two way switched with the door switch. The lazy switch is positioned over the bed head. The wall switch box is made of wood. The three core cable has red, white and blue coloured cores. There is no earth wire. Who needs an earth when the switch is plastic and the box is wooden? Oh, the good old simple days when a ceiling switch was an additional  luxury.


    An on line search reveals this,


    What is a lazy Betty?

    A lazy Betty is a pull-cord light switch, which may be operated from a bed. In answer to the obvious follow-on question ' Why is the light switch above beds called a lazy betty? Who was Betty?' the only comment I've been able to find sadly says 'No record for "lazy betty" '


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