"gary" wrote in message
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Thanks, but this is a new home with a slab. Outlets are installed in the
floor of large rooms to allow for furniture to be placed with lights
on tables next to them. Keeps someone from running an extension cord
from the wall to the sofa, etc.


We've got an outlet in the middle of our living room floor and it is very
handy for the table lamp. When we aren't using the outlet (when I rearrange
the furniture so that the table isn't near the outlet), I simply plug a
child safety plug into it. The plugs I mean are like this:
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