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From: "Edward Rawde" <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups: sci.electronics.design
Subject: Re: British (european?) kitchen counter electric outlets
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 17:03:52 -0400
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"Don Y" <blockedofcourse@foo.invalid> wrote in message news:v4nhe7$79i4$3@dont-email.me...
> 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?

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.

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