The real problem is that there are many available adaptors which do not  meet any standard at all ,and some are down right dangerous, especially at or near full load, and even the nice ones tend to leave the earth off, many designs are unfused.


A good half way house is to buy a short French extension lead and then fit a UK plug to it.

However,  some of us have the odd permanently fitted  16A German schucko socket fed by UK mains,  ? and it needs to be on the  downstream side of a 13A fused spur or a 16A MCB.  Double back boxes that can take a fused spur in one half and a continental socket in the other are a good solution. When you move house change it for two 13A singles.


Current regs make such an installation non-compliant in the UK, but it is a lot safer than friends and relatives turning up with  one of these   (see pic below ) and much  less inconvenient that them blowing the 1A fuse in your shaver socket, both of which I have experienced more than once.



The 'export only' travel adaptor beloved of visitors with an Ebay account. really finger nipping good,

and although the continental plugs fit, and things do sort of work, at least for low curretns, there is no earth to that sort of plug,  and in my house nothing more than the 32A MCB.

Mike

The real problem is that there are many available adaptors which do not  meet any standard at all ,and some are down right dangerous, especially at or near full load, and even the nice ones tend to leave the earth off, many designs are unfused.


A good half way house is to buy a short French extension lead and then fit a UK plug to it.

However,  some of us have the odd permanently fitted  16A German schucko socket fed by UK mains,  ? and it needs to be on the  downstream side of a 13A fused spur or a 16A MCB.  Double back boxes that can take a fused spur in one half and a continental socket in the other are a good solution. When you move house change it for two 13A singles.


Current regs make such an installation non-compliant in the UK, but it is a lot safer than friends and relatives turning up with  one of these   (see pic below ) and much  less inconvenient that them blowing the 1A fuse in your shaver socket, both of which I have experienced more than once.



The 'export only' travel adaptor beloved of visitors with an Ebay account. really finger nipping good,

and although the continental plugs fit, and things do sort of work, at least for low curretns, there is no earth to that sort of plug,  and in my house nothing more than the 32A MCB.

Mike