However do beware the next person plugging in a fan heater to one of the
trailing sockets and either overloading the fuse or more likely, crashing
the computer every time the thermostat operates!
Brian

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To be honest the only issues I've found on doing this are trip hazards
with the cables and dodgy connections in the socket bars crashing things.

Brian

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I have a room that I use as a study. It has only one single mains socket
(the other is on the opposite side of the room and would require a long
trailing cable to reach the desk area).

I currently have a PC and LCD monitor, and wall-warts for various
low-power devices (router, phone, security camera, headphones etc)
plugged into a series of multi-way socket blocks (there is a 6-way with
two 4-ways plugged into it).

Obviously the overriding factor is that the total current does not exceed
13 A, and when I measured it, it was about 3A.

But is there any safety issue with lots of plugs, via multi-way socket
blocks, all going back to a single wall socket? Is there any advantage in
having the single socket changed for a dual one and plugging half the
appliances (via socket blocks) into one socket and half into the other?
Is a single socket block with 12 sockets in any way safer than a 6-way
with two 4-ways plugged into it?