Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Don Y Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design Subject: Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:20:21 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 31 Message-ID: References: <1quvk5k.dbn40q1ggrom8N%liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 22:20:23 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="10f91bf08e647935c67246fcfb3c014d"; logging-data="239172"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hs6fjj5O1H+IOfSfGdlfF" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:1+j2GhQV5IsIQYfSLJDOb7CM4+U= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2822 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? Or, was lath/chickenwire installed to support the plaster? How do you hang pictures?