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Subject: Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 13:20:21 -0700
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On 6/16/2024 11:46 AM, Edward Rawde wrote:
> "Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> 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?

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