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GSTEEL32
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PostPosted: 23:03 - 01 Apr 2019    Post subject: Are flat/flush electrical plugs even a thing? Reply with quote
I have a sofa.
It's covers literally every millimetre between the skirting board between two walls.
Once placed, it'll cover a couple of wall sockets which ideally I'd like to access.
Do plugs / extensions exists which don't sit as proud as a conventional 13amp plug?
Is cutting the material on the side of the sofa the only option available ?

Google doesn't seem to help, but maybe I'm using the wrong terminology. ....

Thanks.
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PostPosted: 23:09 - 01 Apr 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
I've run an extension lead out the back of a socket as a spur; 20 years later, still no fires or deaded kittens.
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PostPosted: 23:13 - 01 Apr 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
I've run an extension lead out the back of a socket as a spur; 20 years later, still no fires or deaded kittens.


I was thinking of doing the same, but it's within an extention to the main house, so I'm sure it's already a spur.

Can you spur a spur? ... I thought that was a no-no?
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PostPosted: 23:18 - 01 Apr 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Only if you want every sparky in a 20 mile radius go into a Part P rantathon gammon meltdown.
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PostPosted: 23:37 - 01 Apr 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
Hmm... I might have to blank it off and move it perhaps. ... seems like a lot of aggro for very little payoff. Cheers shaggy.
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PostPosted: 00:33 - 02 Apr 2019    Post subject: Reply with quote
GSTEEL32 wrote:
The Shaggy D.A. wrote:
I've run an extension lead out the back of a socket as a spur; 20 years later, still no fires or deaded kittens.
I was thinking of doing the same, but it's within an extention to the main house, so I'm sure it's already a spur.

So how about replacing the socket with a fused connection unit; you'd have a flex coming out of a knockout on its bottom edge, leading to a trailing socket. Unconventional, but I'd have thought kosher and safe?
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