Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!usenet.blueworldhosting.com!diablo1.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Edward Rawde" Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:03:52 -0400 Organization: BWH Usenet Archive (https://usenet.blueworldhosting.com) Lines: 52 Message-ID: References: <1quvk5k.dbn40q1ggrom8N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 21:03:53 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com; logging-data="45017"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blueworldhosting.com" Cancel-Lock: sha1:ROus9pHsh0BKabBTRenZIVab2mM= sha256:lHQ8zmMY6lh+MVQL6ZT1we36ZezXJxRs1lWHLalQqvY= sha1:sDvvRKiSsq9Mq7Hqo+i9mENt+Kk= sha256:vhIUtJXsHVzmx5/9lNKjeJEWpz0Afuoj5I6OhopHnvY= X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response Bytes: 3406 "Don Y" wrote in message news:v4nhe7$79i4$3@dont-email.me... > On 6/16/2024 11:46 AM, Edward Rawde wrote: >> "Don Y" wrote in message news:v4nb4p$5pn2$1@dont-email.me... >>> On 6/16/2024 1:16 AM, TTman wrote: >>>> On 10/06/2024 01:41, Don Y wrote: >>>>> On 6/9/2024 3:50 PM, TTman wrote: >>>>>>> Yes, I've seen that. And, they are *huge* (comparatively speaking; >>>>>>> a duplex receptacle, here, is a ~1x~3 inch device about an inch thick). >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Ours also reside *in* the wall; I seem to remember the ones in England >>>>>>> were "on" the wall (?) >>>>>> >>>>>> In the UK we have slim sockets now.... protruding maybe 2mm from the wall. >>>>> >>>>> So, they fit *into* the wall? Is the wiring concealed in the wall and >>>>> routed to the outlet(s) from within? >>>> >>>> Yes. Our 'old'houses have internal walls made of either brick (4" thick) and plastered. it's hard to recess the brick to take >>>> power sockets, but quite common. The cabling runs down the cavity (4") between the internal brickwork and external brickwork. >>> >>> *TWO* brick walls between the occupants and the out-of-doors? >> >> Yes it's known as a cavity wall. >> Our house was like that, and there was no such thing as drywall (or plasterboard as it would be known in the UK). >> The inside wall is plastered with plaster by the plasterers (people who do the plastering). > > Directly onto the brick surface? Yes > Or, was lath/chickenwire installed to support > the plaster? I've never done plastering myself but I think it goes directly on the bricks. https://www.google.com/search?q=uk+wall+plaster > > How do you hang pictures? https://www.google.com/search?q=wall+plug (not the electrical kind) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_plug That mentions Rawlplug which I can remember. It's likely that plasterboard (drywall) is more popular now. > >